Shot myself in the foot......5:4 / 3:2 Now found out why : - )

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OK so My images I have been shooting of stage shows have all been used on the back end of a DVD as a set of production shots or a section on the DVD for stills. With that use my full frame or any size of crop has been used in the post process to prep for video (HD) and within that frame I can show any size image with any crop ratio....so never been constrained to any size. For the odd print for myself I just get the nearest and trim. The other delivery method has been photo-book which of course does not demand a certain crop, I can place my custom cropped image anywhere on the page and as I compose the book I can rescale the shot to fit the space without compromising the original crop....

I now find myself in the position of people wanting the shots originally shot for the video but in print.......I am using LR5 and have just gone through a bunch of images to apply a 3:2 crop for use with 9x6 prints and I am compromised at almost all my images - some very wide ones with all the dancers on are not going to work at all......

As I see it as I have not shot for standard size print, I am going to find this a little difficult to give people prints they can see in full on screen in print without a bespoke print for each one, apart from the ones that will be ok in a 6x9 frame, which there are a fair few.....

Its hard to fill a full frame when you have stage at the bottom and lighting rig and low top curtains on stages........
 
Could you not offer 10" x 8" prints? It's a standard size and the same aspect ration as you already have (I am assuming from your title that you are currently at 5:4).


Steve.
 
If you don't want to do 8x10 inch as suggested, you could do 6x8 or print your 5:4 ratio print on a 6x9 which will give you an image of 6x7.5 and trim the rest off, or sell them mounted in custom mount with the aperture 6x7.5 and the outside of the mount 8x10 that would work as you then don't have to trim the 6x9 print, and you can ask more for them.

Were back to the 8x10 size again but mounted images look better and sell well, also your customers can easily get frames for them.
 
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Thanks for fast suggestions!

For some reason LR has cropped all my shots on the way in? It seems... My Camera is set to FX but LR has cropped a bit of both sides......But not the full 5:4 ratio - half way between. Havent done anything different than any other import and reimported them and all is fine - at least I can print a proof book now 6 x 4 for client....


There are some images that will be very long and thin though like a letterbox - where is the best place for bespoke size printing? Never done any non standard printing, that I can remember
 
You can reset the crops and sync across all your images very easily. Lightroom should not crop your images omn the way in unless you shot with the crop in-camera?

Easily sorted if you convert the RAWs to DNG.
 
You can reset the crops and sync across all your images very easily. Lightroom should not crop your images omn the way in unless you shot with the crop in-camera?

Easily sorted if you convert the RAWs to DNG.


Cheers Jim....I cant understand what went south on this - I assumed LR had cropped them all on the way in, They were all shot RAW in FX mode so full frame, Its possible ALL the RAW's were selected and I may have cropped the lot? I am unsure of what did happen...But sure it was while in LR.....Still on a learning curve with LR - Although not as many issues as when I started....; - ) I now understand the LR way of doing things and why it has to be the way it does. Ive imported a few 100 more RAW's with no issue and edited and exported them to JPEG's without issue.....

All ok now...
 
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