Lorain County Chapter Tombstone Photo Project

It's the goal of our Chapter to place every tombstone in our county on our website.  
Your involvement will make this project a reality and quicken the process!!
So we are requesting your help in photographing tombstones or sending us photos you have in your collection.  

Your contact person is  Kathy Gies.  
                                    440-647-0524
                                    ktqlts2008@gmail.com

                                    Lorain County Chapter OGS
                                    c/o Kathy Gies
                                    PO Box 865
                                    Elyria, OH 44035-0865
                                     
Instructions:

•   Inform Kathy of the cemetery or part of a cemetery you are willing to photograph.
•   Remember to take a friend or family member with you for safety reasons.
•   If your camera has a Portrait setting please use this to increase the focus on the stone and not surroundings.  This is a better setting than landscape mode for this purpose.
•   Set your camera on the highest resolution available for a better quality photo.  It will use more memory but is worth the result you'll have.
•   Do not crop the photos, do not date stamp them.
•   Take digital photos on sunny or partly cloudy days and do not make any adjustments to them with photo editing software.  
•   Watch the glossy stones as your image may reflect on their surface and show up on the photo.   If you need to take the picture from a slight angle to avoid reflections.  
•   Photos are to be taken of all stones; standing, fallen, broken, illegible and taken in their entirety without cutting off corners or bases of the stones.  Take an extra photo zoomed in     to get a reading of the engraving if needed.
•   Keep photos organized and submitted by cemetery name.  
•   When submitting photos include your name and contact info so we can thank you for your work.
•   If you already have stone photos in your collection how about sharing them.  Printed photos can be scanned and e-mailed / copied and snail mailed.
•   CDs should be mailed to the Chapter address stated above.

** Remember many hands make the work light and easier!  Hope you'll be joining this photo project!  **