This is going to sound like a real stupid question
Yesterday I had a nightmare where a customer wanted me to email my images over to them at the largest file size possible, so I had shot in Jpeg on my 1D MKII, and sent them straight from the camera after a little bit of tweaking. I needed to send around 20 images, but I could not send more than two images at a time as an attachment on an email, which was very embarassing.
How would I go about sending that amount of images at their max size in the future, unfortunatly sending in a cd was not an option as they needed them for today's paper.
If they where not going to print all twenty, if for picture editor in mag I normally then send through thumbnails, then send through the one or two that they finally require.
Otherwise change provider to a High speed broadband and at as much compression as possible...
a Jpec out of a 1D2 would be about 2.5M at the biggest so I don't see what the problem about sending them in batches of 10 would be.
Total file size was 74.0MB, I have a 2.2Mbps connection, they would get to about 70% sent then I would get a message saying connection intterupted, I got this trying to send 3 images as well but was OK sending two at a time.
Rob
As someone who does a lot of press work, 20 files totalling 74Mb is WAAAAY too much.
Most picture editors rely on their contributing photographers to pick 3 or 4 key photographs that fit a brief or are the 'best' in the photographers expert eye, illustrate the subject in the best way possible and fit in with the newspaprsrs house style.
No picture editor is going to thank you for sending 20 photographs in of the same subject, As an exmaple, I covered an event with David Cameron a few weeks ago shooting in excess of 400 pics which I edited down to 25 or so 'favourites'. I distributed these amongst the nationals in groups of three and I had 9 of them published - no paper had the same photos as any other.
In no case, was any of the pics more than 1Mb in size - it is totally unecessary for paper reproduction.
With regard to thumbnails, I wouldn't advise this for most newspapers - again, a picture editor hasn't the time to faff around trying to get in touch with a photographer for a particular image - they just want to view, crop and pass on to the next item.
One last bit of advice, make sure your images have a logical title (not for instance abc001 but something to do with the subject like David Cameron.jpg for instance) as this helps with searching in their database and make sure they are IPTC captioned as most papers have automated systems that strip out the captions when images are loaded
I felt at the time it was very excessive, although I never dealt with the picture desk just the news desk and this is what she asked me to send in. In the end I did send the best five that portrayed the story.
I've added some more to my reply above by the way that may be of benefit for the future
Typical News Editors - they know NUFFINK when it comes to pics!
Hope you got them published
Barrie
Posted by John Varley on April 10, 2006 at 4:31 PM
Hi Rob - Barrie has covered all the important things, but one little thing which is useful to know is that if you are using a typical broadband setup ie ADSL. Your download speed may be say 2.2Mbs but your upload speed is much slower - about 250Kbs hence the acronym ADSL -Asymmetric digital subsriber line.
John
Posted by Elliott Neep on April 12, 2006 at 6:43 AM
For future reference... 'a network is only as fast as its slowest link'. Your ADSL connection may be quick but the email exchange server you are sending through may be inundated or just slow. Also, as already said, best to keep it small as the guy at the other end won't thank you for crashing their email system while waiting to virus check and deliver a 70mb attachment. Many servers are preset to time-out or block/reject oversize emails thanks to spammers/hackers.
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7 repliesThis is going to sound like a real stupid question
Yesterday I had a nightmare where a customer wanted me to email my images over to them at the largest file size possible, so I had shot in Jpeg on my 1D MKII, and sent them straight from the camera after a little bit of tweaking. I needed to send around 20 images, but I could not send more than two images at a time as an attachment on an email, which was very embarassing.
How would I go about sending that amount of images at their max size in the future, unfortunatly sending in a cd was not an option as they needed them for today's paper.
Any advice would be very helpful.
Regards
Rob
If they where not going to print all twenty, if for picture editor in mag I normally then send through thumbnails, then send through the one or two that they finally require.
Otherwise change provider to a High speed broadband and at as much compression as possible...
a Jpec out of a 1D2 would be about 2.5M at the biggest so I don't see what the problem about sending them in batches of 10 would be.
T
Total file size was 74.0MB, I have a 2.2Mbps connection, they would get to about 70% sent then I would get a message saying connection intterupted, I got this trying to send 3 images as well but was OK sending two at a time.
How do I go about creating thumbnails
Thanks for your help
Regards
Rob
As someone who does a lot of press work, 20 files totalling 74Mb is WAAAAY too much.
Most picture editors rely on their contributing photographers to pick 3 or 4 key photographs that fit a brief or are the 'best' in the photographers expert eye, illustrate the subject in the best way possible and fit in with the newspaprsrs house style.
No picture editor is going to thank you for sending 20 photographs in of the same subject, As an exmaple, I covered an event with David Cameron a few weeks ago shooting in excess of 400 pics which I edited down to 25 or so 'favourites'. I distributed these amongst the nationals in groups of three and I had 9 of them published - no paper had the same photos as any other.
In no case, was any of the pics more than 1Mb in size - it is totally unecessary for paper reproduction.
With regard to thumbnails, I wouldn't advise this for most newspapers - again, a picture editor hasn't the time to faff around trying to get in touch with a photographer for a particular image - they just want to view, crop and pass on to the next item.
One last bit of advice, make sure your images have a logical title (not for instance abc001 but something to do with the subject like David Cameron.jpg for instance) as this helps with searching in their database and make sure they are IPTC captioned as most papers have automated systems that strip out the captions when images are loaded
Hope this helps a bit
Barrie
Thanks for that.
I felt at the time it was very excessive, although I never dealt with the picture desk just the news desk and this is what she asked me to send in. In the end I did send the best five that portrayed the story.
Regards
Rob
Typical News Editors - they know NUFFINK when it comes to pics!
Hope you got them published
Barrie
John
Elliott