The basics (actually all of) picking images to show everyone for beta. It’s not hard, or the most important thing in the world, but it can’t hurt.

1. Content: Climbers want to climb rocks, so why not upload clean pictures of rocks.
2. Cleanliness: The best beta pictures come from images that show the rock accurately.
3. Identification: If there’s a distinguishing feature nearby, get it in the frame!
4. Cropping: Include as many climbs as you can in an image while keeping accuracy, typically between 3 and 6.

Great

• ambient light illuminates rock evenly
• identifiable feature in view
• entire boulder in this case
• topo lines will be easy to distinguish

Not Great

• washed out colors
• distinguishing features cropped out

Not so Good

• distracting shadows from strong sunlight
• climber covering part of the rock
• not that big of a deal here