Thank you Jim!!
I do all my own printing, I can print from 4 x 6 up to 17" wide and as long as it goes. I put everything up on my site like this...
http://www.murryphotography.com/events/puyallup_jan_13_07/sporting/index.htmlI offer the traditional sizes, 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8 x 10, as well as larger art prints (different printer and paper).
After I do a shoot, I post process and crop the images. I crop them to fit a 4 x 6 which is the widest. I then upload them to the ordering system where they are automatically displayed like on the above link. This is where people go to see their "proofs" and order.
So all of the images have to be cropped wide, and if an 8 x 10, etc is ordered, it is cropped in automatically, when I print them, on the widest side.
But the problem is it looks crappy at the widest crop.
Is this just something everyone has to deal with? I would love to offer square prints! I am not able to specify the best dimensions that will fit each image the best because I usually have over a hundred images and it would take way too much time. As it is, it usually takes me a good week or more to post process a shoot, as I have to fit it in between my 12 hour computer work day plus 2-3 hour painting each day.
So how do you do it, what dimension do you crop to to show the customer, an 8 x 10? And if so do you also keep a second version of the image in case someone wants to order a 4 x 6 so you can add back in the extra part on the sides? Or do you do like i have been and just show the proofs at 4 x 6 and crop it in if a bigger one is ordered?
This hasn't been a big problem with the ring shots because there is always something to balance out the image (background elements). But with the studio shots, ther background is flat backdrop so it's much more obvious to have a bunch of nothingness there. Does the crop job on both of the above bother you? It does me...
Or am I being too picky?
ROTFL I will gladly repeat after you...I'll NEVER do weddings!!!
