Participants are encouraged to contribute photographs to illustrate the field trip reports and social media accounts. 

Photo Rights & Usage

When you submit your photos,  you grant LSNY non-exclusive rights to publish the photographs online on our website, in print, and on social media accounts in perpetuity.

Photographer Credit

• Please do not add any watermarks or text to your images 
• We always credit the photographer on our website and social media
• If you are concerned about marking the ownership of your photos, please set the IPTC Core metadata values.  You can use any of the ITC fields, but please set these four as follows:
  • Description – Set to the caption
  • Title – Set to the accessibility description, usually just the species name
  • Copyright Notice – Set to the year and the photographer’s name
  • Copyright Status – Set to copyright

Photo Specifications

Prepare your photos using the following specifications. However, if you can’t figure this out, speak with the Trip Registrar, who will coordinate with the webmaster to resize/crop them for you. 

Cropping

• 1200 pixels wide by 800 pixels high. (Use this cropping guide) 
• JPEG format 

Compression

If JPEG compression and color space are foreign concepts, we will take care of them for you. If you like to implement your own standards, we recommend the following:

• Be aggressive with the JPEG compression
• Use sRGB colorspace, 
• Do not embed the color profile when saving the images. 

Naming The Photo

Please name your photographs using the following format: Species Name Optional Description © Year (YYYY) Photographer’s Name.jpg For example:

• Peregrine Falcon © 2021 Jane Smith.jpg
• Peregrine Falcon attacking a Ring-billed Gull © 2021 Jane Smith.jpg
• Birders on the Watch Hill Ferry © 2021 Jane Smith.jpg

If you have multiple photographs of the same species, add a number after the species:

• Peregrine Falcon 1 © 2021 Jane Smith.jpg
• Peregrine Falcon 2 © 2021 Jane Smith.jpg

Submitting The Photo

• Email photos to the trip registrar within 72 hours. 
• Put the trip name in the subject of your email. 
• Limit your submissions to at most five images per trip. 
• Select your best shots, and remember they might be used to illustrate a trip report or on social media. A first-of-season bird, or a rarity, should take precedence over a picture of an American Robin.

Attaching The Photo To An Email

Macintosh users should be careful not to let the Apple Mail program reduce the size of their images when emailed as attachments.  Ensure “Image Size” is set to “Actual Size” in the address bar’s lower right-hand corner before sending. It is easy to email properly cropped images, so please avoid using online file-sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and One Drive. However, you may send them in a Zip file.