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How did I get photos fast in the old days and what do I do now? Back in the bad old days when you had to post your photos off and wait for the snaps to come back, I would post my first film off to the printing company in the pre-paid envelope the first time I passed a postbox.
I did this in the UK, in Europe, and in the USA.
Security of Photos
I wanted to be sure that if anything happened to me or the camera, (damage or loss or theft) the earlier photos still reached home. My earlier photos would include the country, place and name of the hotel, restaurant. Even if the outside was not interesting, the sign was a caption for the set of photos which followed.
Action
As for instant action, that way, by the time I got home my first pictures were there ready to be labelled. Before I got busy with other matters. Whilst the holiday was still in my memory.
Lists Of Places And People's Names
I also kept lists of every photo in order and the people and places. Those two principles, of speed in sending photos, and lists of subjects, still apply.
More recently I have used an Iphone and an Android mobile phone to take photos when I visited a lot of Toastmasters Clubs all over the world. For example, the UK London and other cities, Europe memorably Prague in the Czech Republic which met over Xmas), the USA, (the international convention in Las Vegas), and Asia (China, Singapore, Thailand). By the time I get home from a trip, or even an evening, I may have photos of more than 50 people, many with similar or unpronounceable names! How to label them?
Sharing Photos
I am also inundated by requests,
Please send me the photos of us at ...
Do you have any photos of the contest ...
Can you send me the pictures of me at ...
1 I send the photo to the person straight away. Otherwise one person asks for a photo and you agree. Then a second person. Then a third person. By that time you have lost track of who asked you.
I also can't, or won't, admit I don't know the first name or surname or both names of the person who asked for the photo. My solution is to ask them to type their contact details into my phone and I send the picture straight away. I tell them to put it on Facebook and acknowledge me as the photographer.
If I don't get acknowledged as a photographer, I don't know which photos are mine and which were taken by other people. This presents several problems.
I look at a photo taken by myself and can't be sure it was not taken by somebody else. I see a photo taken by somebody else and might claim it as mine.
Who Is The Photographer?
Photos which are blurred or out of focus might be attributed to me. I might not get the credit for taking better photos and editing them so the result is good.
The first time I took the official photos for a large event I ended up with huge numbers of photos, many of which showed somebody back view as they turned on stage. Or with blurred arms as they moved.
Get Credit
The advantage, or disadvantage, of being the credited photographer, is that others will come to you with request for more photos of that event, or requests for your services at another unpaid or paid event.
It might be in your interests to take photos as the official photographer to be sure all the VIPs are photographed, and to get a free supper and a thank you gift.
I take several photos in advance, at the venue before the event. Why?
Smiles
1 The smiling contestant might look glum when they find out later they are not the winner.
Early Leavers
2 People leave early. Get the group photo before the end. People even sneak off to catch the last train or put the children to bed as you are calling the group forward for the photos.
You need to Leave
3 It can take over half an hour to get all the VIP audience members for photos. They are saying goodbye to those leaving, exchanging business cards, helping tidy the venue, rushing for their last train or bus home, going after their driver, rushing to their waiting taxi, chatting up a business contact or romance. Finally - you need to leave to catch your transport home!
I just needed a couple of good pictures of each person. 10 speakers. 3 main officials. Six helpers. Each person's photo required twenty minutes of going through all the photos, selecting the best, editing them and adding captions.
Every hour for the next three days I had a request from the organizer for the photos. I kept replying I am working on the photos. Finally, he phoned and I explained the problem. He said, "Just send the photos, all of them, unedited, and I shall pick the ones I need."
I deleted the worst blurred photos, put two of the best on my own website with photos by Angela Lansbury.
In the end he put almost all of them up in three batches of 25 photos. The best one was first.
Security Precautions
An insurance company warned that if you tell readers on the media that you are attending an event and then your house is burgled the insurance company will not pay out because you have advertised to the world including potential burglars that you are not home. For the same reason I used to be cautious about posting photos of events.
Then I heard that the PR for a very successful club posts photos of the event on Facebook whilst the event is still in progress.
One way around this is to do the following.
Venue - Historic and Current Pix
1 Put up an old photo of the venue. On arrival take a new photo.
Later, you can add the date of the second event on the day's photo.
Those at the event will see the current photo when they get home.
Historic and Current Pix of People
2 You can do something similar with people.
VIP - Featured Speaker
For example, any VIP may have a photo of themselves at a previous event. Put that up as tonight's or today's speaker. During the event add the up to date photo. Later you can remove the previous year's photo.
Your previous picture from a flyer can be the page opener.
Contestants / Other Speakers
Similarly with contestants. You can even later add captions such as, winner two years running, or 3rd place last year but 2nd/1st place this year.
Photographing Speakers
You might ask a speaker to stand behind or in front of the rostrum for a photo before they speak. If they are busy re-reading their script or briefing their chairperson on the introduction, they might ask you to postpone photography. However, if the chairperson is busy dealing with crises such as missing speakers or lack of food, the neglected, lonely and nervous speaker might be delighted to pose for a smiling photo which makes them feel important and cheerful.
After the speech the banner might be removed for storage, the speaker will be dealing with fans, or the speaker will be rushing on to another event or rushing home. if you aim to get photos at every opportunity, you should be ok.
Another system is to tick each VIP on the programme as you photograph them so you don't miss anybody. You could go round the people on the programme agenda in order. Alternatively, write the number of the phot o in a circle. So if you photograph speaker two first, you have the letter one in a circle in pencil or pen beside their name on the agenda. That way you are sure not to miss anybody.
Also you might ask the chair person if anybody is arriving late or leaving early. Then you know who to photograph first, or to catch up with at the end. if the person in charge does not know, you can ask for a chance to address the audience.
Or simply take the microphone or shout as they assemble. You might want to say any or all of the following:
1 This photo will go on Facebook. If you don't want to be in a Facebook photo, please take the photo, or stand behind that pillar.
2 Please tell me your name if it has a difficult spelling or you are fussy. Email me your name and a picture of yourself so I can match names to faces for captions.
To find the names of VIPs, match up names with previous photos of the organization's events on their website. Ask for the agenda in advance. Try to learn and recognize all the faces and names.
In the interval or break time, rush out first to get to the toilets before the queue forms and delays you.
Grab food and put it on your seat or inside your bag. No drinks by your papers! Keep the agenda in your pocket so you can check names and be sure nobody goes off with your agenda, even if you change seats. Keep the camera with you in case you meet anybody in the toilet or corridor. Then go around photographing first the VIP who invited you. If necessary ask them who they especially want photographed. It is hard to tell whether a newcomer who knows nobody is simple the spouse visiting one off or the mystery VIP speaker such as the test speaker at a Toastmasters Evaluation contest.
Finally, make sure you are photographed with the organizer and alone with your camera as the photographer.
Send Photos - Problem
At a recent event I was very pleased that I had sent a couple of photos to my Facebook page. I could not get an internet connection to send the photos to the organizer.
On the way home on the train my friend Jenny and I tried to solve the problem. We were able to check first whether she had an internet problem or could send photos. She could, so it was not the internet but my phone.
We tried taking a photo with her phone and sending it to mine, and with mine and sending it to her.
Her photos would not reach my phone. She showed me that the tiny tick in the bottom right of the message or photo shows that the photo has left her phone. Two ticks meant it had been sent by her phone to mine and her other friend. When the ticks changed colour that showed that the recipient had opened the message and read it, received it.
We then went into my settings. By a process of checking what was on and what was off, after almost an hour we discovered that my phone had the data button moved to off. I think a helper on another occasion had thought that would save using up too much data, but it simply stopped me sending photos. Problem solved.
The groups of photos in my outbox then immediately went off. Shortly afterwards I received a thank you from the club president.
Conclusion
With a little forethought, you will have great photos of the venue and VIPs and everybody. the photos are PR for you, the venue and the occasion, the place and the people.
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.
Security of Photos
I wanted to be sure that if anything happened to me or the camera, (damage or loss or theft) the earlier photos still reached home. My earlier photos would include the country, place and name of the hotel, restaurant. Even if the outside was not interesting, the sign was a caption for the set of photos which followed.
Action
As for instant action, that way, by the time I got home my first pictures were there ready to be labelled. Before I got busy with other matters. Whilst the holiday was still in my memory.
Lists Of Places And People's Names
I also kept lists of every photo in order and the people and places. Those two principles, of speed in sending photos, and lists of subjects, still apply.
More recently I have used an Iphone and an Android mobile phone to take photos when I visited a lot of Toastmasters Clubs all over the world. For example, the UK London and other cities, Europe memorably Prague in the Czech Republic which met over Xmas), the USA, (the international convention in Las Vegas), and Asia (China, Singapore, Thailand). By the time I get home from a trip, or even an evening, I may have photos of more than 50 people, many with similar or unpronounceable names! How to label them?
Sharing Photos
I am also inundated by requests,
Please send me the photos of us at ...
Do you have any photos of the contest ...
Can you send me the pictures of me at ...
1 I send the photo to the person straight away. Otherwise one person asks for a photo and you agree. Then a second person. Then a third person. By that time you have lost track of who asked you.
I also can't, or won't, admit I don't know the first name or surname or both names of the person who asked for the photo. My solution is to ask them to type their contact details into my phone and I send the picture straight away. I tell them to put it on Facebook and acknowledge me as the photographer.
If I don't get acknowledged as a photographer, I don't know which photos are mine and which were taken by other people. This presents several problems.
I look at a photo taken by myself and can't be sure it was not taken by somebody else. I see a photo taken by somebody else and might claim it as mine.
Who Is The Photographer?
Photos which are blurred or out of focus might be attributed to me. I might not get the credit for taking better photos and editing them so the result is good.
The first time I took the official photos for a large event I ended up with huge numbers of photos, many of which showed somebody back view as they turned on stage. Or with blurred arms as they moved.
Get Credit
The advantage, or disadvantage, of being the credited photographer, is that others will come to you with request for more photos of that event, or requests for your services at another unpaid or paid event.
It might be in your interests to take photos as the official photographer to be sure all the VIPs are photographed, and to get a free supper and a thank you gift.
I take several photos in advance, at the venue before the event. Why?
Smiles
1 The smiling contestant might look glum when they find out later they are not the winner.
Early Leavers
2 People leave early. Get the group photo before the end. People even sneak off to catch the last train or put the children to bed as you are calling the group forward for the photos.
You need to Leave
3 It can take over half an hour to get all the VIP audience members for photos. They are saying goodbye to those leaving, exchanging business cards, helping tidy the venue, rushing for their last train or bus home, going after their driver, rushing to their waiting taxi, chatting up a business contact or romance. Finally - you need to leave to catch your transport home!
I just needed a couple of good pictures of each person. 10 speakers. 3 main officials. Six helpers. Each person's photo required twenty minutes of going through all the photos, selecting the best, editing them and adding captions.
Every hour for the next three days I had a request from the organizer for the photos. I kept replying I am working on the photos. Finally, he phoned and I explained the problem. He said, "Just send the photos, all of them, unedited, and I shall pick the ones I need."
I deleted the worst blurred photos, put two of the best on my own website with photos by Angela Lansbury.
In the end he put almost all of them up in three batches of 25 photos. The best one was first.
Security Precautions
An insurance company warned that if you tell readers on the media that you are attending an event and then your house is burgled the insurance company will not pay out because you have advertised to the world including potential burglars that you are not home. For the same reason I used to be cautious about posting photos of events.
Then I heard that the PR for a very successful club posts photos of the event on Facebook whilst the event is still in progress.
One way around this is to do the following.
Venue - Historic and Current Pix
1 Put up an old photo of the venue. On arrival take a new photo.
Later, you can add the date of the second event on the day's photo.
Those at the event will see the current photo when they get home.
Historic and Current Pix of People
2 You can do something similar with people.
VIP - Featured Speaker
For example, any VIP may have a photo of themselves at a previous event. Put that up as tonight's or today's speaker. During the event add the up to date photo. Later you can remove the previous year's photo.
Your previous picture from a flyer can be the page opener.
Contestants / Other Speakers
Similarly with contestants. You can even later add captions such as, winner two years running, or 3rd place last year but 2nd/1st place this year.
Photographing Speakers
You might ask a speaker to stand behind or in front of the rostrum for a photo before they speak. If they are busy re-reading their script or briefing their chairperson on the introduction, they might ask you to postpone photography. However, if the chairperson is busy dealing with crises such as missing speakers or lack of food, the neglected, lonely and nervous speaker might be delighted to pose for a smiling photo which makes them feel important and cheerful.
After the speech the banner might be removed for storage, the speaker will be dealing with fans, or the speaker will be rushing on to another event or rushing home. if you aim to get photos at every opportunity, you should be ok.
Another system is to tick each VIP on the programme as you photograph them so you don't miss anybody. You could go round the people on the programme agenda in order. Alternatively, write the number of the phot o in a circle. So if you photograph speaker two first, you have the letter one in a circle in pencil or pen beside their name on the agenda. That way you are sure not to miss anybody.
Also you might ask the chair person if anybody is arriving late or leaving early. Then you know who to photograph first, or to catch up with at the end. if the person in charge does not know, you can ask for a chance to address the audience.
Or simply take the microphone or shout as they assemble. You might want to say any or all of the following:
1 This photo will go on Facebook. If you don't want to be in a Facebook photo, please take the photo, or stand behind that pillar.
2 Please tell me your name if it has a difficult spelling or you are fussy. Email me your name and a picture of yourself so I can match names to faces for captions.
To find the names of VIPs, match up names with previous photos of the organization's events on their website. Ask for the agenda in advance. Try to learn and recognize all the faces and names.
In the interval or break time, rush out first to get to the toilets before the queue forms and delays you.
Grab food and put it on your seat or inside your bag. No drinks by your papers! Keep the agenda in your pocket so you can check names and be sure nobody goes off with your agenda, even if you change seats. Keep the camera with you in case you meet anybody in the toilet or corridor. Then go around photographing first the VIP who invited you. If necessary ask them who they especially want photographed. It is hard to tell whether a newcomer who knows nobody is simple the spouse visiting one off or the mystery VIP speaker such as the test speaker at a Toastmasters Evaluation contest.
Finally, make sure you are photographed with the organizer and alone with your camera as the photographer.
Send Photos - Problem
At a recent event I was very pleased that I had sent a couple of photos to my Facebook page. I could not get an internet connection to send the photos to the organizer.
On the way home on the train my friend Jenny and I tried to solve the problem. We were able to check first whether she had an internet problem or could send photos. She could, so it was not the internet but my phone.
We tried taking a photo with her phone and sending it to mine, and with mine and sending it to her.
Her photos would not reach my phone. She showed me that the tiny tick in the bottom right of the message or photo shows that the photo has left her phone. Two ticks meant it had been sent by her phone to mine and her other friend. When the ticks changed colour that showed that the recipient had opened the message and read it, received it.
We then went into my settings. By a process of checking what was on and what was off, after almost an hour we discovered that my phone had the data button moved to off. I think a helper on another occasion had thought that would save using up too much data, but it simply stopped me sending photos. Problem solved.
The groups of photos in my outbox then immediately went off. Shortly afterwards I received a thank you from the club president.
Conclusion
With a little forethought, you will have great photos of the venue and VIPs and everybody. the photos are PR for you, the venue and the occasion, the place and the people.
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.
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