Best size and format for web publishing ?

Hi all , very inexperienced, and Ive been asked to cover the local football team for their website and was hoping for some advice on what format and or size I should be submitting. I would usually shoot raw for ease of PP. but can I assume that an S raw image will be enough for what is a fairly basic website ? thanks for the advice.

A RAW image will not display on a website...you need to convert your RAW images to JPEG or shoot in JPEG.

A lot of what your final size will be (ie pixels x pixels ....eg 640x480 or 800 x 600) will depend on the layout of the web site and the crop you put on the photos.

For my Island Sports News Web site for example, our column width for news items is 590 pixels wide, so thus any photos used have to be sized at 590 pixels on the long edge (usually width). Generally I ask our photographers to submit JPEG images that are 800 pixels on the long edge and that are 72 dpi (standard web resolution). Then I can resize as needed for the column.

So if I crop a photo with an 8x10 crop ratio, this will result in a photo that is 800 pixels on the long edge and 640 on short edge. If it is cropped at 4x6 ratio this will be 800 x 533.

This should be plenty of size and will give an image of this size (below) which is usually big enough for any web site.

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Thanks Christian, for your valuable input. will take that on board, yes they are paying me
, not a huge sum but at least covering my time and any sales garnered through the website gallery.
Thanks again, big fan of your work especially come hockey season. GO FLAMES !!!

On my 5dII s raw1 is 3861x2574 and s raw2 is 2874x1856. What body are you shooting with? On my website all my images are 960px on the long side, now the format of the image depends on the type, mos of my motorsports shots are a 16-x format and my even shots along with other shots are the standard 2x3 or 4x6. But yes S Raw should me more then enough for a web photo.

Sevan

How about asking them what they want?

I would shoot max size for your camera body, crop for best impact, then resize to the required size.

Biffbradford wrote in post #14813456
How about asking them what they want?

I would shoot max size for your camera body, crop for best impact, then resize to the required size.

Thanks Biff, yes thats the tactic I employed, using a 40D with a Sigma 70-200 2.8. Learning Lightroom for post, and Ive attached one from the first attempt, wasnt all that happy with the "sharpness" of the pics but will work on that.Thanks again all, appreciate the advice and critique.