User manual

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Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Last revised May 2012
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION GUIDELINES
PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIVIDUAL TRACKS:
1. Take photo looking directly down on track to reduce distortion.
2. For close up photographs, fill the entire frame with the track and measuring devises
3. Include two scales, preferably rulers, one running lengthwise, and the second widthwise.
4. Take at least one picture of the track that includes a card in the picture with:
• Site Name
• Date
• Observation Number
• Observer’s Name.
5. Take multiple photographs to ensure you get a quality shot.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAITS/TRAIL PATTERNS
1. Include a scale of some sort. Often this may be leaving the scale you used for an individual track on
the ground by that track (thus also giving a reference for where the individual track sits in the pattern).
2. Try to take picture looking straight down on trail to reduce distortion. If this is impossible due to size
of trail, include scales both near and far to account for distortion.
PHOTOGRAPHING THE SETTING
Also consider taking photographs of people looking at the tracks or sign, or pictures which show the
tracks in the context of the location they are found to accompany the detail photographs.
track minimum outline