Photo's for a sports mag

Paul Tomlinson · 27 Jul 2008

I was asked yesterday morning for some photo's to be taken of climbers at the local climbing centre for a new sports mag in Nottingham, I have shot the pics in jpeg but not to sure if they are still going to be to large for the mag.

I am thinking of going back this morning and re-shooting again in small jpeg, i have sent some of the first shots in via email which took a while to send.

If there is anyone that can give me some advice on what size to shoot in for the mag that would be great, and any info on this kind of stuff.

Many thanks for your help.....Paul Tomo

pxl8 · 27 Jul 2008

Um, if they're too large why not re-size them? But I doubt the mag will have a problem with the images being too big in kb or resolution.

Jayst84 · 27 Jul 2008

Never done this sort of stuff myself, but I'd just ask the mag what file sizes they prefer. If you're worried that they're too big, just resize / compress them, absolutely zero point in re-shooting in small jpg.

I would've shot in RAW and then asked them wether they want TIFF or JPG and at what filesize and then exported accordingly.

jobe · 27 Jul 2008

I may be wrong here and I,m no expert but I would think that the magazine would want the biggest file you can send, I'm sure they can handle the resizing problem, I dont think shooting smaller jpegs will help, as for e-mailing large files you can try online file transfer services not sure who or where, someone will come along and help on that one soon. The other option is to ask the mag if they have an FTP address to upload direct.
Hope this helps
Wayne

JumboBeef · 27 Jul 2008

Yep, shot in RAW and convert from there.

If you have already shot in large JPEG, either ftp them over to the magazine's server (if they want you to) or stick them on a disc and post it.

The magazines I work for either want TIFFs at 30+Mb or JPEGs at 8+Mb.

Paul Tomlinson · 27 Jul 2008

Cheers folks for the quick reply,

I allways shoot in raw, but this time i was not to sure on what to do so i shot in jpeg,

My computer is very slow and if i try downloading the pics in photobucket my computer stops working.

I took the photo's to a mates house last night and sent them to the mag via email, the chap who asked for the photo's said he can resize them.

So can i still shoot in raw when photographing for mags and then resize to send via email? or send of the photo's and let the mag sort it out.

What good upload sites is thier where you not resricted on how many photo's you can upload ??

Paul Tomo

skyblueads · 27 Jul 2008

I know how you feel about the PC side of things mate, when I first started working freelance my PC would jam up on EVERY Raw image I took, it became incredibly frustrating. I ended up spending an article payment on a new PC! In my experience magazines generally want the biggest images you can give them so that their layout artworkers have plenty to play with.

Paul Tomlinson · 27 Jul 2008

skyblueads said:
I know how you feel about the PC side of things mate, when I first started working freelance my PC would jam up on EVERY Raw image I took, it became incredibly frustrating. I ended up spending an article payment on a new PC! In my experience magazines generally want the biggest images you can give them so that their layout artworkers have plenty to play with.

Thanks for that mate,

I am thinking of going for a Mac but not to sure on how much to spend and which model to get.

Is the one you are useing now doing the job you want??