Thanks Mark. That's pretty much what I figured. I enjoyed the wedding, but like you I spent a lot of time fiddling with the files. I just printed 27 4x6 of one image for the bride, so she can make some thank-you notes. Thank goodness it was a small wedding. In truth, she just wanted a file to take to Costco, but she's a long- time friend and a great lady, so I couldn't let her settle for Costco prints:-). Paul On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Mark Cassino wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
