Business Headshot Dimension

Not sure this is the right place to put this but I wasn't sure where else it might go.

Anyway, just did my first headshots for a business (mortgage company). They use their headshots on business cards and on some flyers. What dimensions should I save the files in? They're always square (when I've seen them) and they never print them large (never even 5x7, always much smaller).

Thanks a bunch!

Hmm, well, first ask the clients if they have a prefference/requiremen​t, square or ??.

From there, it's just a matter of cropping your shots to the proper aspect ratio. You can print small or larger, but if, say, they want some square, like for business cards, but maybe for fliers a bit taller than wider, well there you prepare two crops accordingly.

It would help to go over samples with them.

tonylong wrote in post #13141199
Hmm, well, first ask the clients if they have a prefference/requiremen​t, square or ??.

From there, it's just a matter of cropping your shots to the proper aspect ratio. You can print small or larger, but if, say, they want some square, like for business cards, but maybe for fliers a bit taller than wider, well there you prepare two crops accordingly.

It would help to go over samples with them.

All of the shots I've ever seen in that world are square (I come from the mortgage business). So I guess I'll just crop them to a square aspect ratio. I can always give them other aspect ratios if they'd like as well I guess.

Thanks.

Sounds good -- I haven't really examined such things from a photography point of view!