Eric,
1. I have a policy: I never give RAW files to anybody. (In the film era,
I've never given negatives to anybody, with just one exception for a close
friend of mine per a special agreement).
I would only consider giving RAW files in very special cases.
Several photographers that I know have a similar policy.
When I give photos to others for printing, - I give those as the
Full-resolution JPEGs with the maximum quality level.
(Also, just in case, I save them in sRGB color space to avoid any
confusion.)
2. If you are not printing yourself anywhat routinely at home, I
would consider mpix.com for ordering the prints. Last time I checked, they
can also "drop-ship" to your clients directly, and IIRC, even in a
discreet packaging, not revealing the shop name, if requested. (Verify
that, my memory might deceive me here.)
3. The optimum way of choosing the photos in the situation like yours is
to post them to a website (Flickr will do), with the filenames that can be
used for identification, asking your clients to provide you with the list
of numbers.
4. When I provide full-res. photos, I usually upload them to one of the
online storage accounts (I like box.com) - in a separate folder, and set
sharing via a direct link, which I provide to the addressee.
Box.com interface provides convenient interface for both previewing and
downloading single images, as well as the entire folder.
(I am sure that most other similar sites, such as dropbox, google-drive,
have very similar interfaces.)
Just in case:
Before sending the link to the clients, check in a browser where you are
not logged in as yourself (e.g. by opening an "Incognito" browser window),
that the link works and doesn't require creating any account or
whatsoever.
HTH,
Igor
Eric Weir Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:36:06 -0800 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,
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