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My good lady is moaning at me again as she's seen a few recent landscape shots of mine and fancies some for the wall, naturally, I can't be arsed to process & print any - so unless she really moans a great deal they'll just be filed away on a harddrive somewhere & forgotten about

Just made me wonder of others hereabouts... :thinking:

There are some wonderful shots posted on TP :clap:, so do you have a stack of prints lying around or framed for others to enjoy, or are you a lazy sod like me with wasted images that no-one will ever see :shrug:

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DD
 
I have started to print shots as and when i get one that i am really happy with. Now instead of sitting on a hard drive never to bee seen, they sit in an envelope down the side of the wardrobe, never to be seen. :thinking:

I keep meaning to phone around a few local companies to see what the prices are like for cut glass. Next step is to start making my own frames.
 
Plenty of prints around - on the wall, free standing frames, albums, you name it! Don't really like viewing images on a screen - monitor or projected, so print quite a lot. Every so often I have a purge and dispose of substandard ones but have a stack about 6" high of A4s that didn't quite make it to frame.
 
I try to print anything which I think is any good. Otherwise, what's the point in taking it?


Steve.
 
I have loads of pictures on my walls that I have taken.

Some I print myself and others I send off to get printed.

My wife is always bugging me to print copies of pictures and after I have moaned about the cost etc. I usually give in and print them for her
 
We have picture frames all over the house - all empty :lol: waiting for me to sort some photos out to put in them. I suggested that we hang them up one day to gauge where, what and how many, that was last summer!

People who come round think it's new type of art :lol::lol:

Oo - tell a lie, we do have one picture on here that I bought off someone on here :D
 
Only really got some darkroom prints which are sitting in a folder somewhere.
 
Part of my problem (aside from being a lazy sod ;)) is that I'm always after that 'killer' shot, and when I've finally got one I tend to look at it again and think 'if only... and it would have been better'

Hence, I'm rarely happy enough with them to think they are worth hanging on the wall - no matter how much others love them

DD
 
I print the good ones, sometimes give prints to family and friends, have a few albums (I try to make a scrap book and dvd every year) and a couple of photobooks.

People like my Mam and Gran don't use computers - Gran wouldn't even know how to turn one on - and Mam only just about knows! So I like to show them some of my pics n stuff like that too

I have a pouffee full of photos that I've taken, but I'm gutted that I lost 2 old albums that I took when I was 10 and 11 :(
 
I print all my best shots, usually at 18x12 inch..some go on the wall in the house & I'm lucky enough that other people buy them from displays I have in a couple of local craft shops/galleries

I don't think you can really appreciate your shots until you've seen them printed, especially landscapes...come on get off your a*se & get some printed ;)

Simon
 
I've got a couple of mine on the living room coffee table, but the majority are never to be seen
 
Since starting a college course in January I've done my first prints in about 2 years. Now I'm into film I'm printing even more, not many but more than before. I've also been given access to the large format printer in work so I've used the for printing from my slides. Only problem is it means I need to learn about colour management and tbh I find it all far too confusing. Darkroom B&W FTW.
 
Around the walls of my office/worroom there are something like 30 framed photo's i've taken. To be honest i've run our of wall, and now when I take something I want to display, I'll print it, then spend another couple of hours picking which of the curreent display has to come down for that one to go up. The ones "demoted" end up in an album (if a4 or smaller) or stored in my old portfolio if larger ones, or if they're in fancy mounts.

There are maybe another half a dozen photo's around the house, that tend to remain un-swapped for years at a time.
 
lol, you've seen my office..........prints everywhere! I keep most of mine in a big A2 portfolio. I usually print the ones I like at A3 or A3+ but that's actually so I can look for anything that needs correcting. I find I can see defects in big print far more easily.

Got a few of the various mutts on the wall, some of stepdaughter in the kitchen. Generally it's the family ones that make it to the wall.
 
I very rarely get them printed, unless there's a good reason to do so!

I have a couple of mounted 18x12" prints lying around and that's about it.

I like Luke's idea of having a portfolio with you at all times, I may make a mini-folio of 6x4" prints, just in case :)

I got some stuff printed today, for others not me, and I really like how they look so I'm inspired to start printing a few more! :D
 
I have about 7 40x30 (or whatever it is) sized prints from Photobox when they last did a £5 offer, and only 3 of them framed. Also have about 6 collage prints that they had on a special some time ago, none of them framed :(

So I get them printed, just rarely get them framed :p
 
bit of both here, I have got osme printed and lying around not really looked at, got plenty i should print and just dont, printed loads of others but not for me. I keep meaning to put together some printed portfolios, just in simple albums, but been saying this for nearly two years now and still haven't done it. Meanwhile I have an idea to hang some stuff in the showroom at work but again, havent done it yet. :shrug:
 
Might I suggest the service reception area rather than the main showroom? Especially if you want to sell a few.
 
I have never had a portfolio and there are NONE of my pictures in my house.. which does tend to surprise people on there first visit as they seem to expect my pics all over the house.
 
DiddyDave said:
Part of my problem (aside from being a lazy sod ;)) is that I'm always after that 'killer' shot, and when I've finally got one I tend to look at it again and think 'if only... and it would have been better'

Hence, I'm rarely happy enough with them to think they are worth hanging on the wall - no matter how much others love them

DD
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I'm very much like that and although I'm short of the standard of yourself and most of the good togs on here I do get some shots printed with the intention of getting them on the wall but I always find some flaw with them and think I'll try again to get that kinda shot and see if I can do better.

It's probably a good motivator to keep pushing myself but it does my other halfs head in when I order prints and she keeps hoping to see some of them on the wall but I keep telling her "hmmm nearly good enough but not quite"
I suppose I should prolly just be less picky and fling them up anyway as it's always easy enough to change it over if I do get a better shot. :thinking:

In the meantime though I seem to have gathered a rather large collection of frames from the local charity shops. :thumbs:

Tommy.
 
House is full of my pics, about 50 and most are a3, its nice to see your work other than on a monitor. I messed around making frames myself but now I buy a3 frames 10 at a time from Ikea, they are only £10:50 each but look ok.

I have an a3 printer and if I have a shot I like i print off whack it in a frame and hang it. Its nice to see your own work up.
 
I do print some, but I put a lot on a DVD with background music and leave them playing on the plasma sometimes.
 
I am surprised by the number of posts here from people with good quality, high resolution cameras who are happy to look at most, if not all of their picture on a monitor.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
I am surprised by the number of posts here from people with good quality, high resolution cameras who are happy to look at most, if not all of their picture on a monitor.


Steve.
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Isn't that just the same as all those thousands of slides some of my mates have neatly filed away and never seen/printed? Many of whom certainly can't be arsed to close all the curtains, set up a screen and projector

At least onscreen they can be seen pretty BIG - if not at the great quality of a print

DD
 
Other than family shots I rarely print out my landscapes, etc.

I'm not sure why as I quite like some of them. :D
 
DiddyDave said:
Isn't that just the same as all those thousands of slides some of my mates have neatly filed away and never seen/printed? Many of whom certainly can't be arsed to close all the curtains, set up a screen and projector
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Yes. Exactly the same.

Which reminds me that I need to get some batteries for the slide viewer I bought at a car boot sale last week!



Steve.
 
Personally I love to print now that I found a printing service that wasn't crap!

I much prefer prints and seeing published works to viewing them on screen but I provide a lot of photographs that clients require for web use only too, so I have to manage myself regularly :bonk:

Since I started shooting skating competitions and began to provide a print service to parents, friends and team members there has been plenty of prints selling this year.

More so since I found the new printer at the beginning of the year.
It's a major relief, the quality is superb and with the ICC profile they provide the prints match my monitoring, smack on, every time.

I found myself ordering prints a lot more due to the faith in my printers, especially after holidays and personal ventures, I like to send surprise batches out to my girlfriends folks and grandparents. :lol:

Steve Smith said:
I try to print anything which I think is any good. Otherwise, what's the point in taking it?
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Simple. Not every image requires printing generally speaking.

There's always a point in shooting, whether it's printed or not :)
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
Simple. Not every image requires printing generally speaking.
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I agree as far as commercial work is concerned as it is up to your customers to do as they please with the images.

As far as amateurs are concerned though, it seems silly not to have prints of your best images. Perhaps not framed and hanging on the wall but at least in some sort of portfolio/album.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
I agree as far as commercial work is concerned as it is up to your customers to do as they please with the images.

As far as amateurs are concerned though, it seems silly not to have prints of your best images. Perhaps not framed and hanging on the wall but at least in some sort of portfolio/album.
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Indeed, I used to be the type to view on screen, not out of lazyness but out of shear frustration with the printing places over here, the 'domestic' places with those dreadful 'Please insert CD, memory stick or card into on of the slots and choose your sizes' machines :razz:

Drove me nuts, always cropping the hell out of the images and no matter what ICC profile the establishment recommended or whether they had their own profile, the images came out cack, and a different type of cack each order!

In the beginning I must had my monitor calibrated a dozen times before realizing that it was nothing to do with me.

No wonder some folk just view em on screen.

Put me right off for a good while and then, thankfully, I found such a good one in Lapland, so quick to deliver and the quality is awesome everytime.
Even with their prices being fair, I spend a fortune now :lol:
 
I have a wall of photos at work by my desk but at home I don't have any.

To be honest though, I far prefer the act of taking photos than I do looking at them. I think it's because I have a low boredom threshold so it would take a stunning image to keep my interest long enough for me to have it in my home and I don't think I've got one quite good enough yet.
 
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