First: Is this for pay or as a gift? In either case, talk to them, show them the photographs, and ask if they'd like any. Presuming they say yes...
- Make a set of JPEGs of the best ones for them. A reasonable size that they can put on their phones, essentially, something like 1600 pixels on the long edge works well. - Forget delivering raw files to anyone who is not a professional client AND didn't request them specifically. It's not only a waste of time because they will almost invariably not know what to do with them, but it usually turns them off if they ever do find a way to display them since they're raw and not a finished, rendered photograph. ... You want to give them YOUR renderings, not what the camera recorded, in a finished format (JPEG is best these days). - Make a set of nice 5x7 or 8x12 prints of the best ones for them. (I usually make whatever format proportions work for the images and print them onto high quality 8.5x11 paper with at least 1 to 1.5" borders.) That's PLENTY for them to use if they want to make a collage ... let THEM make the collage. - Then, if they want something else, get them to define what it is they're looking for and make that. For instance if they want wallet sized small prints, have them printed up by a print service for them. Etc. Long experience delivering prints and image files to clients says to me: - ALWAYS curate what you show them FIRST to be your best work, and show them the FINISHED work, not "work in progress." - ONLY offer what shows your work off in the best light. It almost never makes sense to offer too many things. Keep it simple. A set of JPEGs and a set of prints is as much as most clients or giftees will ever look at. G — No matter where you go, there you are. > On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > My only experience publishing photos is putting albums up on Flickr. I have > not printed a single image. > > Yesterday I photographed an Iraqi refugee family at a community college > graduation ceremony here. (One of their daughters graduated with high > honors.) I’ve weeded out the worthless images, done an initial selection and > edited a few, which I’ve shared with them as attachments to an email. I > suspect I’ll end up with 15 or 20 decent or interesting images, but I’m not > sure what to do with them, i.e., how to make them available to the family. > > I imagine they might want to put images on their phones, to print one or two > for framing, maybe to create a printed collage. For the first I could do as > usual and put an album up on Flickr. For the latter I have no idea what to > do. A thought is to put the edited JPEGs and the original RAW files on a USB > stick and give it to them. Not sure they would know what to do with that, > especially the RAW files. If there are images that they’d like printed I > could figure out how to get that done and give them the prints. > > Clearly, I’m floundering. Suggestions would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
