Documenting Brahmo Samaj Cemetery-Nabodebalay/Instructions

Pre-Requisites[edit]

The participants are requested to carry the following.

Digital camera: Please carry a digital camera, preferably a DSLR.
Enough memory: Please ensure there is enough memory on your card.
Additional lenses: Please bring additional lenses as you feel necessary.
Tripods Tripods are welcome. Please don't hesitate to bring your tripod if you feel it would be necessary.
Laptop: Please bring your laptop. After the photo walk there will be a session for uploading the photos to Wikimedia Commons.
Dongle: Please bring your dongle. Though Wifi would be provided during the uploading session, it will be better if you carry dongles, just in case there is a bandwidth issue.

Respecting personality rights: You should not focus your camera on any persons on the street for photographs, without their permission. If someone is in the background, or part of a crowd, or he/she standing in front of a building in an obscure way, it's OK. Otherwise you shouldn't focus on any individual.

If somebody is visible in any photograph, please attach Personality Rights along with the photo. If you are a newbie please seek for help and write in talk page with your query to do so.

Respecting the rights of property owners: Property owners have the right to restrict you from taking a photograph while standing on their property. But, you can take any photograph as long as you are standing on public property.

Keep pictures in focus.
Position your subject using the Rule of Thirds.
If possible, Show the whole subject in one shot
Consider taking photos when the sun is shining on the side of your subject, instead of from directly above.
Make sure your camera is metering on the subject.

While uploading images to Commons, please add {{Indrajit Das/Nabodebalaya}} in the description section. The template will automatically add the images in Category:Brahmo Cemetery-Nabodebalaya, so that they can be tracked easily. The template will look like -

This image was uploaded as part of Brahmo Samaj Cemetery-Nabodebalay project, An effort by West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

While uploading images of graves of Nabodebalaya
- Please add [[Category:Grave of <buried person>]] while uploading tombs and epitaphs of buried person. For example, for images of the grave of Keshub Chandra Sen, the category is Category:Grave of Keshub_Chandra_Sen.
- Add the category [[Category:Grave of <buried person>]] under the subcategory of Category:Brahmo Cemetery-Nabodebalaya