Re-sizing higher resolution pictures

I am taking pictures of cars for a dealership website at 2560x1920 px,
but then shrinking them down to about 448x336 px to upload them so they
do not take up the entire screen of a customer who looks at a given
vehicle. Am I just wasting card space as opposed to taking the
pictures in something like 640x480 px?

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I am taking pictures of cars for a dealership website at 2560x1920 px,
but then shrinking them down to about 448x336 px to upload them so they
do not take up the entire screen of a customer who looks at a given
vehicle. Am I just wasting card space as opposed to taking the
pictures in something like 640x480 px?

Resizing afterwards gives you the opportunity to crop (change the
centering and sizing of the image) as well as shrink it. If you never
crop, then you are just wasting space. Of course, space is real cheap
these days.

I have been doing photos on several auto dealers websites for the last 6
years.You do not need to shoot at your cameras max size. Set it to save
640x480 images,that is large as you will need,and still be able to crop.If
you email pictures to prospective buyers,try to keep the file size down
under 100k.Many people still use dial-up.I have several cameras,from my
Kodak 4800 (3.1mp) all the way to my Canon 5D(12.8mp). I use my Kodak 4800
for 98% of my web photos.Image size set to 640x480.
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I am taking pictures of cars for a dealership website at 2560x1920 px,
but then shrinking them down to about 448x336 px to upload them so they
do not take up the entire screen of a customer who looks at a given
vehicle. Am I just wasting card space as opposed to taking the
pictures in something like 640x480 px?