p.1 #1 · Question about picture sizes you give to clients
Just a quick question. When you do your shoot, say a family photo shoot where the pictures will be cropped to frame sizes, do you leave extra room around te subjects to allow the cropping?
I guess this question would be best directed towards the people who let their clients do the printing. Just want to see what people do in this area.
p.1 #2 · Question about picture sizes you give to clients
I provide only finished images. If I feel a 8x10 ratio looks best that is what I crop and send. If it is 5x7 then the file says something like 5x7-8375.jpg. I would never trust any of my clients to come up with a decent crop that would enhance the image. That is my job anyway. Letting them have unfinished files will only degrade your work. When they say who took the shots do you want an average photo being seen or something you took time to perfect.
p.1 #3 · Question about picture sizes you give to clients
I don't work with individual clients much but when I do. I deliver files at 800px for web/facebook sharing and 4000px for personal printing. Though I'm considering limiting it to 2,100px to limit printing sizes to 5x7 so I can make more of a profit off of selling larger prints. I don't do any cropping of the the images unless it calls for it.
Jan 01, 2012 at 03:52 PM
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p.1 #4 · Question about picture sizes you give to clients
CoLmes wrote:
Just a quick question. When you do your shoot, say a family photo shoot where the pictures will be cropped to frame sizes, do you leave extra room around te subjects to allow the cropping?
I guess this question would be best directed towards the people who let their clients do the printing. Just want to see what people do in this area.
I always err on the side of shooting loose rather than tight. With todays camera's especially there is always more than enough pixels to crop in a bit if you have to.
That said, if the images are not cropped they still look far from bad.
I sell a lot of images on disk for portrait work as well as finished prints.
In my lengthy experience going back to the days of handing films over to clients, I have yet to have any negative repercussions from it.
The mantra of never giving clients image files because it will destroy your reputation when they show horrific prints around is a complete load of garbage IMHO and have yet to ever see first hand evidence rather than unsubstantiated theory of it yet.
My work does not need a whole load of manipulation to make it decent, i shoot good pics straight out of the camera. While enhancements may improve some aspects of the image, no one is oing to look at an image straight out of the camera and think it's garbage or look at the same image and go from thinking it's crap to thinking its wonderful.
To me the idea they would is ridiculous.
If you want to cover your butt, give the clients a print that you have photofiddled to bring it up to what you think is acceptable to show so they can compare any they have made themselves.
That way the clients can see how crap your original shots may be and come back to have you fix the rest so they are acceptable as well.
