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Photography Services
Our primary responsibility is to provide high-quality, creative and impactful images to advance the Ashland Public Schools brand and support the district by maintaining an expansive image database.
Photographic services are offered to aid in the marketing and branding of Ashland Public Schools as a whole, with top consideration given to the following initiatives and current priorities:
- Marketing Material: Stock photography for general use is always needed. Photographs are often used to support our overall district marketing and branding objectives. Our current priority is for top-level print or digital marketing for recruitment.
- Social Media: We provide photos that are cropped and resized to fit the respective social media platform. Our current priority is for district-level and building-level-operated social media accounts.
- Website: We provide photos that are cropped and resized to fit the banner image area. Our current priority is the Ashland Public Schools website homepage.
- Media Relations: Services can include providing photos to supplement media coverage of district or building events.
- Events: Allow us to help document your official Ashland Public Schools award ceremonies, luncheons, dinners, lectures, concerts and other performances if you don't have a photography vendor or a pro or semi-pro photographer available.
- Special Projects: Collaborate with our office on special photo projects for Ashland Public Schools publications, webpages or other branding purposes.
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Request Photography Support
The Media and Communications office can help document the people, events and places that make our district a special place. These photo services are available to all staff and faculty, with top consideration for district or building-wide requests. The resulting photographs are available for use district-wide.
Please complete the photography support request form to help us prioritize projects that align with our current initiatives.
We strongly encourage all requests for photography support to be made with at least seven business days’ notice. Submit as many details for your photographic services request (including event date and start time, location, approximate event duration and any specific photo requests) as possible. You will receive a response within three business days during regular office hours. Please note that a request does not guarantee confirmation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Do you do staff and student head shots?
Due to limited resources, we do not take general portraits unless they are related to district media or communications initiatives and priorities.
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Do you provide videography support?
At this time, we do not have the capability or resources to record or live stream events.
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How do I schedue a shoot?
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How long does it take to get photos back?
We take the utmost care in processing all digital files. In most cases, it can take up to two weeks after the session to receive your photos. If you need the images sooner, please be sure to specify in the deadline section of the request form.
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How much do you charge?
We are a free service in support of district marketing, branding and communication activities.
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What does image processing involve? Can I request unprocessed images?
Processing is a blanket term for actions carried out on image files following a photo shoot, including downloading images from memory cards, renaming files and editing (such as color correction, sharpening, and cropping on an as-needed basis). Finally, we must also upload your photos to our database. Processing is necessary and carried out for all jobs we shoot, without exceptions.
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What type of requests do you accept?
Our current priorities include:
- Assignments originating from the Superintendent's Office
- Content that will be featured on APS' primary social media accounts
- Content for district or schools' homepage media carousel
- Stock photography for general use throughout the district