Printing Your Images
We go through this incredible process of setting sessions, selecting locations, choosing what to wear, who will be present, colors, etc. It can be super overwhelming! However, when it’s all said and done, the question we need help with most is often, “What size should I print this?”
Most of us are used to the common sizes offered by pre-made frames in stores, such as 8x10, 11x14 and 16x20. They’re the sizes we grew up with when our families ordered those awkward memories of our middles school stages that.
However, if you’ve gone into a store recently you’ll notice that sizing has changed. There has been an increase in uncommon sizes due to changes in our camera formats, especially when it comes to weddings and portraiture. As photographers, we often try to make work as streamlined as possible in order to deliver products faster to clients, especially now that we live in a much more “instant” world. In order to do that, we will actually photograph an image as it is meant to be printed, or “pre-cropped”. You’ll know these images as they tend to be zoomed in, leaving little-to-no room for cropping on all sides without changing the look and feel of the image. Yet, you will also have photographs that clearly leave more room on all sides so that cropping in becomes less of an issue and does not alter the look and feel of the scene. As a photographer I always suggest that you purchase your frames based on your images so that you don’t have to sacrifice any portion of the image by cropping it out in order to fit a specific frame.
Hopefully the guide below will help you better understand how your images are affected when cropping for the frame vs. purchasing the frame for the image. Reach out if you have any other questions when deciding how to print your images.
With appreciation always,
Ivy