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Fwd: Senior Portraits Update -- deadlines approaching
by Ingram Realdina 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Dear senior parents, Please see the update from the Indicator staff sent over the mid-winter recess. Please direct questions to senior(a)stuysu.org<mailto:senior@stuy-su.org>. Emails and calls to me this week will be answered on Monday, February 22. Stay safe, Dina Ms. Dina Ingram Director of Family Engagement Stuyvesant High School 347-224-6673 cell 212-312-4800 ext. 2731 office (M-F 8am-4pm) ringram3(a)schools.nyc.gov<mailto:ringram3@schools.nyc.gov> www.stuy.edu<http://www.stuy.edu> Read my Blog<https://talos.stuy.edu/hera/blog/feed> on talos.stuy.edu<http://talos.stuy.edu> Follow Stuyvesant on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/StuyNYC/> @StuyNYC or Twitter<https://twitter.com/StuyNY> @StuyNY or Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/stuyvesanths_nyc/?hl=en> @Stuyvesanths_NY “This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message." Begin forwarded message: From: Katerina Corr <katerina.corr(a)stuysu.org<mailto:katerina.corr@stuysu.org>> Subject: Senior Portraits Update Date: February 14, 2021 at 7:58:05 PM EST To: Class of 2021 <21(a)stuysu.email<mailto:21@stuysu.email>> Hi everyone, I hope you are having a lovely break so far! Please see the message below from The Indicator regarding senior portraits. Hi seniors, We hope that break has gotten off to a great start for you all! We have received updates from the studio; there are now portrait appointments available until February 20th. If possible, please sign up for an in-studio appointment through the following link: https://seniorportraitsscheduling.as.me/STUY. If you would like to retake your portrait, please sign up through the following link: https://SeniorPortraitsScheduling.as.me/STUYRETAKES<https://seniorportraitsscheduling.as.me/STUYRETAKES>. We have also decided to extend the deadline for self-submitted senior portraits to Friday, February 26th, at 11:59 PM. Under the extended deadline, if your portrait is rejected, you will have until Wednesday, March 3rd, to submit the final portrait. Thus, we encourage you to submit your portrait as soon as possible. As a reminder, please follow the guidelines on this<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I2brGRVVGKizrX-SIbqNiQjrQQ1Z0-gCTm3DX-2…> document when taking and submitting your self-submitted portrait. Best, Katie and Margaret Best, Katerina Corr Co-President, Senior Caucus Student Union senior.stuysu.org<http://senior.stuysu.org/> -- Sent by Stuyvesant High School Student Union 345 Chambers St. Rm 260, New York, NY 10282 | (615) 3 - STUYSU | www.StuySU.org<http://www.StuySU.org> | Independently owned server. Emails not sanctioned by Stuyvesant High School or the NYC DOE. --- To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 21+unsubscribe(a)stuysu.email<mailto:21+unsubscribe@stuysu.email>.

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Senior Portraits - Update from Indicator EICs
by Ingram Realdina 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Dear parents & guardians of seniors, We have forwarded your concerns and consulted regarding your concerns around senior portrait self-submissions. The Indicator Editors-in-Chief have written a response with further information for parents and guardians that addresses most concerns and questions. All the best, Dina Dear parents, We hope you are doing well! We are the co-Editors-in-Chief of the Stuyvesant Indicator (the senior yearbook). We are reaching out due to your concerns about self-submitted senior portraits. Regarding the requirements, we specified lighting based on the knowledge of our own photographers, more specifically those who have taken professional classes on photography. We also specified lighting in the case that parents wanted a specific requirement to adhere to. However, although we stated all of these requirements, we will generally accept portraits that resemble the sample ones included in the portraits requirement document<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I2brGRVVGKizrX-SIbqNiQjrQQ1Z0-gCTm3DX-2…>, especially since we have no means of checking adherence to the suggestions in the document. The lighting requirements are merely suggestions to ensure that portraits are not too yellow or too white (since providing the specific watts for lighting helps us give you an objective set of instructions), but we understand that the document may have given the impression that these were mandatory. We understand that most students do not have professional photography equipment at home, so any effort to simulate the studio lighting (whether with desk lamps or iPhone camera flashes) would work! We would also like to note that Ms. Ingram sent these requirements to both senior students and their parents on the same day. As for the app-based tools, we encourage students to edit in the way they feel most comfortable, as long as the photos remain high resolution and still meet the visual requirements of the document. There are several app suggestions linked in the document, as well as video tutorials about editing on YouTube. We invite you to consider exploring these options, but if you have other tools you feel more comfortable with, please feel free to use those instead! If you need support editing, we are happy to edit for you. (The only reason we ask that students edit themselves is that we cannot edit all 500 portraits ourselves.) In addition, we specified in the document that if you have a similar background to the blue background we linked, you may use that instead, thus eliminating the step for editing. Regarding specificities about posing, we specified "30 degree orientation" in the document, but we do not expect students to sit exactly facing 30 degrees. An estimate is okay; we only added that specification to give students a general sense of body orientation, but we will not reject your portrait if it is slightly off. We would like to reiterate that the requirements in the document are specific because other parents would like more detailed guidelines about submission, but they are only suggestions to ensure that all portraits are standardized. If you do not have a collared shirt and tie, or if meeting the lighting requirements is not tangible given your circumstances, it is okay! In summary, if your child is able to take a portrait at home that matches the lighting (regardless of technicalities), pose, and attire of the ones in the document, we will accept it. We suggest that your child submit a portrait to us to the best of their ability, which we will review keeping the current situation/circumstances in mind. We apologize if any of our instructions seemed unhelpful or inconsiderate; we are merely trying to maintain the formality of the senior portraits section of the yearbook, which is the only formal portion. The specific requirements are included for the parents that requested detailed instructions that they may simulate, but we do not expect everyone to have access to studio-level photography at home. Regarding your concerns about wanting your child to be in the yearbook to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst this pandemic, we fully understand, as we are also seniors and felt this lack of "senior spirit" this year. However, we have tried our best to revive this spirit; for instance, we have plenty of rolling "Spirit Day" submissions<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iv8IQlXFYTDC1SdNHwVDbtG21eW9RE9dTmW…> (which your child may submit to), which are much more informal and will dedicate a larger portion of yearbook pages to photos. We have been working with Senior Caucus to host events; we hosted the Christmas Movie Screening back in December, and we have recently brought back the "second-term senior" stickers<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-P-zIvLoud4DClpCypmpwSzHQ2ZJ9jEy?fb…> that would have been distributed in school. Furthermore, we have been actively gathering photos for our sports teams and school clubs, so if your child is part of any clubs around school, there is a really high chance you'll find him on club pages too! We are upset that we lost the senior experience too, and we have been working to simulate that virtually, though we know we can never truly reproduce what we would have gotten in-person. We apologize for the lack of opportunities to participate in senior events, and we will continue working to bring more meaningful events to the senior class. Our work for the yearbook staff--from coordinating events for senior spirit to writing applications for funding to alleviate financial stress--is funneled towards producing a memento for everyone to treasure for decades to come. We know how important this is to you, and we will move forward with your concerns in mind. It is our intention to produce the best yearbook we can, especially since our class has been through so much within our four years at Stuyvesant. We have received many emails addressing different concerns, so we thought it would be best to provide more specific instructions rather than a vague set of guidelines. We understand that this situation is difficult for everyone, and we apologize if the document implied that we were overwhelmingly strict. We do hope to standardize the formal section, but we are also flexible with portraits as long as they meet the general requirements! Feel free to email us if you have any further questions or concerns! Best, Katie and Margaret The Stuyvesant Indicator<https://indicator2021.wixsite.com/website> Ms. Dina Ingram Director of Family Engagement Stuyvesant High School 347-224-6673 cell 212-312-4800 ext. 2731 office (M-F 8am-4pm) ringram3(a)schools.nyc.gov<mailto:ringram3@schools.nyc.gov> www.stuy.edu<http://www.stuy.edu> Read my Blog<https://talos.stuy.edu/hera/blog/feed> on talos.stuy.edu<http://talos.stuy.edu> Follow Stuyvesant on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/StuyNYC/> @StuyNYC or Twitter<https://twitter.com/StuyNY> @StuyNY or Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/stuyvesanths_nyc/?hl=en> @Stuyvesanths_NY “This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message."

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