OVERVIEW

Digital photos of CVC teams, players, and related subjects can be posted on the CVC website!  Once you've taken the photo and downloaded it to your computer, all that's necessary is to e-mail the photo to the CVC Webmaster, Rick Woodruff, at webmaster@cowlitzvolleyball.com 

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FILE TYPE AND QUALITY

Most digital cameras store their photo files in JPEG format.  This is the recommended type since this compression results in the smallest file size for the best resolution.  JPEG is also the type that is used on the CVC website, so any other file types that are received will be converted to this, if it is possible to do so.

For quality, the best choice for resolution is either 640 x 480 pixels or 800 x 600 pixels.  Though these may not be the best for printing, they work great for display on a computer, such as a web page.  Some digital cameras specify an "e-mail" setting for quality, so you can choose this.  If you are planning on taking photos for both printing on paper and website display, it will still work to choose a high resolution -- the only downside is that it may take quite a while to send the e-mail with these photos attached.

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EDITING YOUR PHOTOS

After having downloaded your digital photos to your computer, you may alter them using a photo-editing tool to improve the quality if you choose.  Or, the un-edited photo may be sent directly to the CVC Webmaster, who will then make the necessary adjustments to the photo using photo-editing tools, so that the final picture will be displayed with the correct color, brightness, size, etc.

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E-MAILING AS AN ATTACHMENT

Choose which photos you would like published to the CVC website, and then attach them to an e-mail addressed to:

 webmaster@cowlitzvolleyball.com 

Please include information about the photos, such as team name, tournament name, date, etc.  We do request that e-mails contain only 3 photos each, so please send multiple e-mails if you are sending additional photos.

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RESTRICTION ON NUMBER OF PHOTOS

Considering the large number of photos submitted each week, along with the amount of time involved in posting these to the website, we must respectfully request that a maximum number of 15 photos may be submitted per person per week.  (It may be possible that a team may have more than 15 photos per week if more than one person is submitting photos for that team.)

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HELPFUL ADVICE

ACTION SHOTS
It is very difficult to capture indoor action on a digital camera.  Poor lighting in the gyms along with a subject in motion can lead to some very blurry shots.  We recommend that most photos be taken of subjects that are stationary, or at least moving just slightly.  Unfortunately, this eliminates much of the volleyball match (at least when the ball is in play), but there are many other opportunities throughout a tournament to take pictures.

DISTANCE FROM SUBJECT
Because the photos will be reduced in size for posting on the website (see below), we recommend using an optical zoom when shooting from a distance, so that the subject will appear larger.

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FINAL PRODUCT

After you've submitted your photos, we will make any necessary adjustments within our photo-editing tools to make the photo display correctly on the CVC website.  One of the substantial changes will be to the size of the photo.  Since photo file sizes are very large compared to such things as text, it will be necessary to reduce the size of the original photo to between 10 and 50 kilobytes.  This helps in speeding up the download time for a photo.  Another change will be "cropping", which involve removing parts of the photo.  Cropping will be done when there is space around the subject which is considered unnecessary to the effectiveness of the display.  This editing feature also helps with download times.

One final note : The Cowlitz Volleyball Club reserves the right of refusal to publish, as well as the right to disseminate and use, any digital photo which it receives.