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I just had this exact same dilemma come up. I've been playing around with images, making them unique and search/pinterest worthy.

My first attempt with text on the image became clear that the 300 width wasn't going to cut it any more.

So then I tried again, and I think this one displays nicely and even breaks up the post a bit, which might keep the reader more engaged similar to subtitiles and bullet points.

So while I may still do as small as 300 sometimes, I think 600 is a great way to get more attention on it.

You could try installing Lightbox. Then you could display a smaller image that fits well with the content, but the reader can click on it to see it full size. The great thing about Lightbox is that it displays in a javascript popup instead of loading a new page. That way, the reader can simply close the popup and be right back where they were in the page.

This is just my own experiences, but I have a harder time reading a post when there is a large picture. I tend to just scroll through the post rather than reading it.

For me a few smaller pictures seems to work out the best. It's a good way to break up the words without taking too much away from what is written.

I resize the image accordingly. If I need a bigger picture so the readers can see the detail (usually some kind of text) then I use a bigger picture. If it's discernible at a smaller scale, then I usually will try to limit to to 300-400 px wide. 

Sam, I think the 600 px is too big. It seems too high specifically. 

More Con – bigger pictures take longer to download.

Text on image is a good idea too. I will try to do it more. 

I have noticed that many posts that get Pinterest traffic include several (think 5 or more) large pictures, but this drives me crazy!  I hate scrolling through the pictures to see a few sentences of the post before the next picture.  One big picture is not that bad.

FWIW, I noticed the larger photo on your last post & I liked the change. The only thing I might be concerned about is that it would slow down your page load times, but I don't know how big of a deal that really is. 

Pinterest is the number two referral source for Weight Chronicles.  You can use picmonkey to put your URL on the image also.

I've just recently started using BIG images on posts that I think have a chance to do decent on Pinterest.  Luckily, my wife has been helping me.

Not sure if I shared it here, but I added a Pinterest worthy pic to a post that was written 2 years ago.  My wife Pinned it and I was able to get over 76,000 pageviews because of it.  You can read the case study here.

Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:

For those with larger pics, how do you handle mobile traffic?

Glen, I haven't worked on it myself yet, but if you are serving mobile traffic with a mobile theme, you can use scaled down images in a separate folder. This post explains how to do that:  Delivering a Much Better experience to your your iphone clients

Nothing special so far for mobile users, but I'll be investigating this http://adaptive-images.com/ to see if it will still work with Pinterest.