Hi-res images

[zener]

I'm a beginner at digital photography and a designer is asking me to shoot some pictures in hi-res with a finished size for print at 300psi 1mg or larger. I have no idea what camera should be set at. I have a Nikon D60. I shoot my pictures in RAW.

[teaking]

You will need to know the physical output print size eg 8x10 inch before you can make sure your image will be 300ppi chances are it may be over 300ppi and happy days.

And also you will have to find out if the end user wants the RAW file and they will convert for the printer or if they want the JPEG.

[zener]

Thank you so much for your response. I'm very new at this and I'm currentIy shooting real estate photos. The photos I will be taking are of sold homes that will be placed on a postcard. I believe I can set my camera to shoot in RAW+JPEG basic. I'm thinking that will cover what the end user wants. But I will check. Thanks once again!

[BCampbell]

For a postcard, I'm guessing you won't be going bigger than 4x6" or so, which means your image should be at least 1200x1800 pixels. That's just over 2MP, so you have plenty of room to play, for cropping, etc.

[teaking]

Yeah like BCampbell said at postcard size you have lots of room to play with so as he says just make sure your final image is at least 1800 on the long end.

As for shooting RAW and JPEG just make sure you dont show the client the JPEG and then try to edit the RAW for the final output as you will find it very hard to exactly duplicate the exact look in the RAW.

[Raoul Isidro]

Originally Posted by zener

I'm a beginner at digital photography and a designer is asking me to shoot some pictures in hi-res with a finished size for print at 300psi 1mg or larger. I have no idea what camera should be set at. I have a Nikon D60. I shoot my pictures in RAW.

By 300 psi, you mean dots per inch? (dpi)
1 mg, you mean One Megabyte? (MB)

RAW files from a 10 MP camera are about 5 MB per file.
I'm just curious what a 1 MB RAW file would contain...
The D60 has 12 bit compressed RAW.

Designers require RAW so they can manipulate the final image better.

Most printers have a default value of 300 dpi.

Set the camera to the highest image quality and let the designers do their work to downsize.
Cheers!