The Senior Portrait deadline for the Class of 2025 will be Friday, October 25, 2024.

That means the link below will close at the deadline. Portraits will no longer be able to be submitted beyond the deadline.

After the yearbook staff receives all the portraits, we do lot of work to complete the senior pages. We have our own deadlines and face penalties for missing them. Please help us by submitting your portrait early or on time. Thank you!

We typically receive portraits from four sources:

1. A professional photographer. (If you choose this option, make your appointment early! They are busy this season.)
2. A parent or family friend who has photography experience.
3. Use a portrait from the official school portrait day. You can still do a goofy senior portrait, as many seniors do every year on portrait day, but starting this year our photographer, Slow Road Phohto, will ALSO take one “standard” or serious portrait (no costumes or props, etc.) of everyone, including seniors. We won’t print the “funny” photos as a senior portrait, but we could use the standard portrait.
4. We can help! (See next topic.)

Please contact yearbook adviser Reid Westrem: 

[email protected]

…if you’d like someone to take a portrait for free. In the past, these photographers have included:

1. Senior yearbook staff members.
2. Volunteer teachers who are experienced photographers.
3. Volunteer parents who are experienced photographers.

If you’d like help, don’t be shy! Please contact us — the sooner, the better.

Please note these requirements and recommendations:

• Orientation: We REQUIRE a VERTICAL portrait, not a horizontal. If you send a horizontal, we will crop it to make it vertical, but we prefer to have you send the portrait exactly the way you want it.
• Clothing: We REQUIRE that portraits respect the school dress code and that individuals are identifiable (please avoid sunglasses, or hats, headcoverings, props and poses that obscure faces). You may dress as formally or casually as you wish.
• Location: Portraits may be taken indoors or outdoors, but please emphasize the person, not the place.
• Color: Most portraits are in color, but you may submit a black-and-white (grayscale) image.
• Framing: We want to see faces clearly. Therefore, WE RECOMMEND that portraits be framed as head-and-shoulders or half-body shots. When published, senior portraits are slightly smaller than a driver’s license. We would like the student, not the landscape, to fill most of the frame in their portrait. 

Consider the following examples.

Head-and-shoulders framing works well:

Half-body framing works well:

Full-body framing doesn’t work as well:

Avoid horizontals. We print verticals.

Please note the following technical requirements. If a submitted file doesn’t meet these requirements, we will request a replacement.

• File format: Upload photos with a .tiff, .jpeg, .heic, or .png extension. 
• Resolution: Avoid images pulled from the web or social media, which often have low resolution. Upload the largest photo possible (25MB max), because we need a high-resolution digital file. Technically, that means 300+ dpi at the published size of 10 x 15 picas (1.67″ x 2.5″). You can check the resolution if you have Photoshop, Lightroom, Preview or other photo management software. 
• Color mode: RGB. Also required by Jostens. (Color portraits are the norm, but we accept grayscale images, too.)
• Professional photographers: Families, if you used a professional photographer, only upload a photo you have paid for! Photographers, please do NOT add borders or watermarks.

Note to photo studios:

The primary use of submitted senior portraits is for the Senior Portraits section of the Antler yearbook. These portraits will NOT be used by M.A. Journalism for other projects, such as other yearbook pages, The Talon newspaper, or the Redhawksonline website.

Minnehaha Academy, however, would like to use submitted senior portraits during graduation season for various events, such as Senior Night or, with student permission, on M.A.’s social media announcing senior news.

If you are a professional photographer who has questions or reservations about these uses of submitted portraits, please contact yearbook adviser Reid Westrem.

You or your photographer will upload a digital file directly to Walsworth, our yearbook publisher, through their Yearbook Snap tool

1. Choose the photo to be uploaded. Each student may submit only ONE Senior Portrait. Make sure it complies with the requirements listed above.
2. Professional photographers: If you have several clients, you may upload more than one at a time.
3. PLEASE RENAME THE FILE LIKE THIS: LastnameFirstname2025.jpg       A student named Jane Robinson would be: RobinsonJane2025.jpg
4. When you click the link below, you’ll be asked to enter a code. Our code is: Redhawks2025
5. Upload your portrait file.

WHEN YOU’RE READY, CLICK THIS LINK TO SUBMIT YOUR PORTRAIT.

THANK YOU!