Looking for some advice

[joep]

I will be taking portraits for a police dept. (the entire force) 45-50 people. I am going to supply all of the photos on a disc (dvd) the dept will be getting all of the prints done themselves.................
I was thinking of shooting in RAW to provide the possible quality. When I put them on the disc,in what format should I save the pictures? Or should I just shoot in jpeg?

Any advice would be a big help...........I am using a Canon 50D with 70-200mm IS L lens and continuous lighting. It's kind of a "cattle call" photoshoot.

Thanks in advance.................

[daft_biker]

Give them JPEGs they can print from. RAWs or TIFFs will cost them time....opening 60MB+ files from a DVD can take a while and I doubt they'll have the means to process RAWs. Make it easy for them

[nickbedford]

Originally Posted by daft_biker

Give them JPEGs they can print from. RAWs or TIFFs will cost them time....opening 60MB+ files from a DVD can take a while and I doubt they'll have the means to process RAWs. Make it easy for them

60MB RAWs? What the hell camera do you have?

If you are going to shoot RAW you need to know how to convert them into JPEGs. If you don't know how to do this yet then you may want to simply shoot JPEG.

[Photologyst]

Save in sRGB as highest quality JPGs after you have PS processed because, this is what the printers typically want.

Do not give them RAWs.

Some people may want TIFFs if they know what they are doing. Those will probably ask for them.

[joep]

Thanks for the advice.........

[dandellion]

Shoot RAWs, give them jpg's in highest resolution possible and with no compression. Also, a nice idea is to make a folder with smaller versions (max. 1200px, 85 compression) of the images for quick viewing or whatever.