One of the things I like to talk to my clients is the importance of printing your photos. You have taken the time to hire a professional, picked the perfect location, selected outfits, and gone and spent an hour or so taking pictures and making memories. But for what? Why did you spend all that time and effort? The short answer is, to make memories and capture your family at that specific stage of life.
Now you have captured the memories. You have frozen time and you have the pictures to prove it. You have shared them with friends and family on social media so it’s time to PRINT. Before you print, think about what you want to do with your prints. Are you going to display them in your home? Will you use them as gifts? Will they go on the wall or on a table? All of these things are important to consider when you select your print size.
For gift prints and prints that you place on a table, you want to use a smaller print.
The ideal print sizes for a table are 5×7 and 8×10.
You will be looking at them from a closer perspective and a smaller print will work well.
To print your photos to hang on the wall, pictures need to be bigger. When I say bigger, I really mean BIGGER. One mistake people make when printing for their walls is not getting their image large enough. Here is an example of a print that is too small for where it is being displayed.
A better size for a wall that big, behind a couch that size would be something like this. (Notice how much of a size difference there is between the two images).
What a huge difference that makes! In the second example the photo was printed very large, and as a result creates a huge impact when looking at the wall. In the first example, the image gets lost in the size of the wall. The print is too small and because of that it doesn’t fill the space.
Printing Chart
Below is a chart of some of the sizes you can select to print your photos. I hope you find this chart useful and that you will print your photos and not leave them to live on a hard drive.
