If there are people in the photos all photos should be checked for proper PPE (person protective equipment) including fire clothing worn with sleeves down, hard hat, gloves on, fire shelter. If on water PFDs should be on and fastened properly. It near aircraft chin straps down on hard hats. Sawyers need proper chaps.
People make photos more interesting whenever possible try to capture people somewhere in the photos.
If someone from the public (not working on the fire) or the media provides you with the photos provide photo credit by name or photographer or agency. Be sure you have permission to use them on the website before you download them; all photos on the website are available for the public to download.
Most photo gallery programs will resize the photos to lower quality for website use; Keep the higher quality photo for the fire records. Website quality reduced to 750mp
Caption the photos so those reviewing them well know what they are, captions should be short and concise like a headline.
Take only the best photos that represent a wide range o topics from your incident, incidents should not have more than 25-30 photos for a standard incident or 12 per day for a large long-term incident. If you are entering photos over several days purge any prior photos from the site if they are no longer relevant.
If you only have poor quality photos none may be better than poor pictures….look for focus, color, interruptions in the photos (power lines, aircraft wings, roads)
When doing photos for a specific project or of a non-government person or on private property it is best to get a signed photo release. An example of a release is posted with the PIO Information on MNICS.org