That's what I have done for the handful of weddings I've shot - 8x10 (approximately) size at 300 dpi, sRGB. Sufficient to take to Walmart and have reprinted as nice 4x6's to 8x10's.
I'd also go easy on saturation enhancements or sharpening - a lot of drugstore / discount store photo printers will default to pumping up the saturation and sharpness, and when people get the images printed they may not know to disable those features. A double-sharpened double saturated print can look pretty bad... I shot one wedding (for a former boss) where the mother of the bride showed up with black lips in all of the prints that the family made. She wasn't goth - her lipstick was the exact shade of red that the store's machine pegged as red eye, and the automatic red-eye correction made them black. I would give the client a few copies of the CD with jpgs (some may ask for 3 or 4 or more) plus a 'master' cd with TIFFs if they ever want to work with the images at more detail. Reading recent posts I'm starting to think that the TIFF disk was probably overkill... I only did wedding for friends - I found that I cared too much about the photos and would spend way too much time fiddling and fussing with the photos, to get them 'just so.' I've been enjoying your posts from the wedding. - MCC Paul Stenquist wrote: > I want to distribute CDs of picture files from the wedding I shot. I > don't want to have to size them for various print dimensions. There > are too many different shots. I'm hoping to settle on a size that > will work okay for everything. I'm thinking 300 dpi at 8x10 in srgb > color space. Will labs know what to do with this file if people want > 4x6 or 5x7 prints? > Paul > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
