What size portraits to deliver?

I've been doing some portraits lately, and have a question...

When delivering final digital images to the client, what would you deliver? 8x12 size as it comes from the camera, or cropped to 8x10?

When I do things for myself it's pretty much always 8x12. But I know most frames and mats are for 8x10 and most people are more familiar with 8x10.

What would YOU prefer to deliver, lacking direction from the client. I'm thinking I should crop to 8x10.

Thoughts? Thanks.

*-5x7 left out.

photoguy6405 wrote in post #19294864
I've been doing some portraits lately, and have a question...

When delivering final digital images to the client, what would you deliver? 8x12 size as it comes from the camera, or cropped to 8x10?

When I do things for myself it's pretty much always 8x12. But I know most frames and mats are for 8x10 and most people are more familiar with 8x10.

What would YOU prefer to deliver, lacking direction from the client. I'm thinking I should crop to 8x10.

Thoughts? Thanks.

*-5x7 left out.

i matted a LOT of images 8x12 (in an 11x14 frame) going back to 1984 when i got into the printing business. i have 3 8x12s hanging on my wall as we speak BUT...

when i shoot my daughter's high school band or events, and host them on my website (where prints can be ordered) i leave them a) 8x12/original aspect ratio b) leave enough "space" around the important part of the image so they can be ordered in any aspect ratio the customer wants without cutting off feet, tops of heads etc...

if youre shooting these for a client and they have already said "no 5x7" or "nothing smaller than X size" then id crop them to 8x10...