AI MARINE SURVEYOR INSTRUCTION ON PHOTO TAKING AND

INSERTING FOR PHOTO REPORT

a) No cell phone photography is allowed.

b) Regular camera to be used and Date and Time mark to be used for all photo taking.
c) All photo to be taken in high resolution only.
d) All photo to be taken in horizontal (Landscape) mode as the photo report is designed to insert only landscape
photo.
e) Try avoiding taking photo focusing directly towards sun/light at the background.
f) Use your hand as shade in getting excessive light to the lens.
g) Use Aperture control
 Fast Shutter speed for bright light.
 Slow Shutter speed for low/night time photography.
h) Once all photos are taken, please download them to a folder in your computer/laptop while you are still on
board and check the quality and position that you were looking for. If any of them are missing/blurry/over
exposed, please retake before you leave the vessel.

Re-sizing of Photographs:

Our Photo Report template is designed for inserting photograph with 640 X 480 pixel size photo only. There are many
re-sizing free software available in Google search, you may use any of them to resize the high resolution photo to 640
x 480 pixel. Alternatively you may use Microsoft Office Outlook as follows:

a) Select all the photos in the folder by pressing Control (Ctrl) + A.

b) Right click the mouse on the selected photo and select “Send to” and select “Mail Recipient” by pressing it.
c) A new pop up window will open, please select Picture size to “Smaller 640 x 480” and press Attached.
d) A new mail compose window will open with all the photo in attachment in reduced size.
e) Select all the photos in the attachment by pressing Control (Ctrl) + A and then (Ctrl) + C for copying the same.
f) Please create a new folder and paste all the photo by (Ctrl) + V.
g) The photos are ready for inserting.

Photo Report Template and Inserting:

1. Please take photograph as per our Template, this will reduce the description writing to minimum.
2. Please do not delete the old photo rather insert on top of the old one only.
3. For inserting photograph, please click the existing photograph where you want to insert your desired photo,
the area with the red rectangular area will be highlighted / selected.
4. From the top Tool Bar, please select “Insert” then press “Picture”
5. Go to the folder where you kept the photo, double click the photo you want to insert, this will change the old
photo in the report with your selected photo.
AI MARINE SURVEYOR INSTRUCTION ON PHOTO TAKING AND
INSERTING FOR PHOTO REPORT
AI MARINE SURVEYOR INSTRUCTION ON PHOTO TAKING AND
INSERTING FOR PHOTO REPORT