Photography Tips Steer clear of mood shots featuring inanimate objects: clocks, empty hallways, sunrises, sunsets and waves crashing against a shore line.   Avoid shots of students sitting at the computer with nothing on the monitor, and home economics students stirring invisible substances in large metal cooking pots or hunting for real food in refrigerators filled only with ketchup and baking soda.   Try not to include too many photos of posed people accepting awards, shaking hands and staring into the camera.   Don't use photos of administration with telephones growing out of their ears, custodians leaning on mop handles, or teachers pointing to blackboards, but facing the camera.   Be careful how you set up group shots. Get away from the teetering cheerleader pyramids featuring plastic grins and rumpled uniforms. No more helmets placed between the legs of football players or golf ball clubs forming star patterns. No more posed shots of athletes out of uniform.   Save space in the yearbook by positioning groups in simple row-by-row rectangular arrangements that allow for no hidden faces. Props are distracting, and unusual positioning wastes space.   When catching teams in action, do not use photos of ant-like athletes running around on the field, shot from the middle of the stadium bleachers or from the sidelines with a 50 mm lens.   Watch your angles! Don't overuse armpit shots in the basketball section, or "up the nostrils" shots taken from the orchestra pit of actors, singers, or dancers performing on stage.   Do not do aerial shots of human chains spelling out the year of graduation, a club's initials, the outline of the school, your province, state or nation. Ditto for aerial shots of the school from 22,000 feet.