Check the angle. Adjust the lens. Check the focus. Snap. Repeat.

Some people find that yearbook pictures are little more complex than the average selfie.

While finding the best lighting or the perfect filter for your selfie may be the hardest task you’ll come across before posting your picture, The Reign yearbook staff knows all about the struggle of publication.

For some going to shoot for a spread is never just a one shot task.

“You can take hundreds of photos and get only ten to twenty shots worth using,” Co-Editor in Chief Cheyenne Atchison said.

To fully capture the story, The Reign believes that it takes a combination of anticipation and patience.

“It’s all about action and reaction,” said Atchison.   

Yearbook staffers also said that capturing the emotions is a major factor in the means of getting the whole story.

“I obviously love all the emotion like if a team scores… You can like see the anger, the happiness, and like everyone is proud. It makes the photo even better because it makes a bigger story,” Yearbook Editor Gabi Sowa said.

While embodying the moment may seem like a tedious task, editors feel like they strive to do their best            

“Nobody wants to have a bad picture in the yearbook because when you have your name by it, you want to have your best work there,” Yearbook Editor Nick Saladee said.

Yearbook doesn’t just take pictures but they edit them and place them into spreads as well.

Editors commit their time to critiquing and revising photos within spreads to make them yearbook worthy.

“When you’re editing the photos you have to make sure the contrast is there. Your highlights are good. The shadows are good. There’s not too much saturation but not too little saturation. It’s just fine tuning,” Saladee said.

When adjusting the white balance on photos and organizing spreads, yearbook staffers take under consideration that they may need more time than just an hour and thirty minute class period.    

And with a deadline on the horizon, they say there’s no time to spare.

“Our editors would stay after school until eight or nine o’clock just editing pages and editing little things here and there a day or two before deadlines,” Sowa said.

While things might be a little hectic before publication, afterwards The Reign staffers said all the hard work is worth it.

“You’re trying to embody everything that’s happened within the ten month school period. It’s rewarding to know you’ve produced something tangible that does exactly that,” said Co-Editor in Chief Trinity Dunn.