Selling Prints and CDs?

[dcsmith40D]

I shot three different football games of my nephews team. After the first one was posted to my Zenfolio site, a booster club member told me he wanted to buy a picture of each of the seniors on the team. Long story short, he now wants the pictures on CD to go along with the hardcopies. He proposed two options, 1) he buys the photos on my website and I email him the photos or 2) since I told him I would only net $120, he pay me $150 and I mail him all the photos from the galleries (approximately 600 pictures) on a CD. In that second scenario he prints his own copies from the CD.

There are some things I am unsure of. First off, some of the pictures are quite noisy. I wonder how they will print at 8 x 10. Additionally, how will they project during a slide show. An untrained eye wouldn't recognize them as being noisy on the website. However, when I look at them at 100% on my computer they have a lot of blue, red and green spots in the dark areas.

Second, if I go with his first option to email him the selected pictures so that he can make a slide show, should I re size the pictures? I uploaded them full size to Zenfolio. I feel like I should re size them to keep them from seeing the noisy part of the pictures. That being said, if he has his own prints made from the CD what size files would be required for him to get a good quality 8 x 10?

I'm not sure my questions were stated well. If anyone can help me make sense of it I would appreciate it greatly.

Thanks,

David

I'm speaking of the last couple of football galleries if anybody is interested in seeing the noisy pictures I'm speaking of.

[eigga]

Not sure why you would discuss your profit...mistake in my mind.

I offer digital files a lot. I strongly encourage (by pricing) clients to purchase prints first. I want them to see my prints first in case the local lab produces crap for them.

so option #3 He buys the prints and you offer a CD of prints purchased for another fee. There is time and cost associated with making a CD.

[dcsmith40D]

Not sure why you would discuss your profit...mistake in my mind.

I offer digital files a lot. I strongly encourage (by pricing) clients to purchase prints first. I want them to see my prints first in case the local lab produces crap for them.

so option #3 He buys the prints and you offer a CD of prints purchased for another fee. There is time and cost associated with making a CD.

You are right about everything. Can you shed some light on what size picture size I should put on a DVD or CD? Or does it make any difference?

Also can I make either a DVD or a CD copy proof?

[Jon, The Elder]

I generally size files to 5 x 7 format. It is about a 1/2 page for publications and a nice size for photo prints.

[Dennis_Hammer]

The problem with his having the all the pictures is you will not sell any pictures to anyone else. They can easily be handed off to everyone. Just give him the ones he paid for and process them so that you are happy with the result. Noise Ninja does a great job.

[lauderdalems]

Sell him a CD that only includes his son. Then others that see his pictures will want one of their child.