Tempest photography

[Mugsman]

Mornin all ive just after a morning of phone calls recieved my daughters school photo that supose to be 300x300 DPI
this is afterover a week of waiting photo was supose to have been emailed (shouldnt take long ) 4 email adres they had and nothing finally they sent it me and on checking the DPI its only 72 x 72 DPI so if any one else orders from them please check quality

[FlyingAl]

Hi Mugsman,

This may not be as bad as you think, it also depends on the pixel resolution of the image, not just the dpi.

Your photo can still have a screen resolution of 72dpi AND be hi-res, for example

6x4inch at 300 dpi and 25x16.6inch at 72dpi are both same resolution images i.e. around 1800x1200 pixels it depends if the proper size info was saved with your image.

If your image has been saved at for example 6x4inch AND 72dpi, then that is a very poor image, the pixel resolution would be around 432 x 288 pixels, also bear in mind you may have just been sent that as a proof for your approval.

Hope this helps anyway

alan

[JSR]

As FlyingAl says, the DPI is dependent on the size you want to print.

It's also likely that the photographer doesn't want to just give away high-quality copies of the photos by email because they sell printed products of their own and they would want to make it as difficult as possible for others to infringe their copyright.

[Mugsman]

as you can see it clear the quality is diabolical and on the last one they cut her head off lol
thanks for info
first pic is 818 KB 72DPI second pic is 3.42 MB 300DPI

[John G]

Did you buy these, as normally you have to buy a hard copy only - quite surprised they have even emailed you them.

[FlyingAl]

hi,

yes, these are all low quality FOR PRINT, like JSR says, I too would be very surprised if the photographer emailed you the full 300dpi hires images.

I checked out 9863b9d40dhir.jpg, the pixel resolution is 951x1189 pixels, if you were to PRINT this image at 300dpi, the image size on paper would be approx 3.17inch x 3.96inch, so yes, they are small for print so I'm still inclined to think these are just proofs. Printing this image on paper at 72dpi would give you an image size of 13.2inch x 16.5inch but would look poor on paper.

I couldn't see any image there that was 3.42MB, those 3 images vary between 85kb and 90kb small compressed jpgs. The aspect ratio of each one is different, maybe the photographer is just be showing you a variety of cropping options, including the 'head-chop'

cheers
alan

[Kaz]

I get mine from Tempest on disc, and I must say, the quality is fabby.

In fact, I think I got a previous one by email and the quality was really high on that aswell, will go search for it and see what size it is

[Kaz]

Got this info from the piccy they emailed me

I've printed it on a mug and it's came out great, even though it only has a dpi of 42

[FlyingAl]

Hi Kaz,

looks like the images you have from Tempest are around double the resolution of mugsmans!!!!

I'm sure mugsmans images would still look great on a mug, just not on anything much larger.

alan

[Mugsman]

Flying al can i send you the images they sent me as forum has compressed them ?
they offer a license to print on a email download £19 so they hadnt better be that crap