For the Non Pros, do you keep any prints?

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I just wondered if any of you hobbyists/amateurs keep prints or just digital copies to watch on the computer or TV. I know it's not cool, but I have started to keep a print a day (only the days we go out) because my wife finds it easy to look back on the prints to remind her of the days. She is not computer literate so the hard copy is easy for her.

This is the sort of thing we keep as a reminder. By the way although that is my wife, I am not the saxophonist, we just met him in Eastbourne today.
 
I've printed a lot of my work, it's mostly in the home office but eventually i'll put some in the other rooms of the house. Other than that it's all kept on the laptop.

I like your idea about a print a day, I think i'll try to remember that and pull a printed album together in 2010. Not sure I could be so committed though - i'm hopeless!
 
Have printed a few now, nice to display them on hte wall.
 
Special ones on the wall.

I keep my personal photos of days out with the family etc on a memory stick and when I feel I have enough I will make a photo book titled something like ''jan to april 2009'
 
I print quite a few. It's surprising sometimes how an image that doesn't look 100%, on your monitor, can look really great printed out.
 
Not nearly enough.
It's a shame with digital, that you don't need to get to a finished product before you decide it's not worth finishing.
Tens of thousands of images on the hard drive, about 30 on the wall. :(
 
Julie1979 said:
I like your idea about a print a day, I think i'll try to remember that and pull a printed album together in 2010. Not sure I could be so committed though - i'm hopeless!
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I don't find it hard just to put a few shots in a collage and it helps so much to remeber the day and the shots that you took.
 
I don't print them for the wall, I just use the collages as an easy reference guide!
 
I'm getting ready to start looking through my things and getting a couple of prints done. Cos I think, personally[never thought this before, until recently] it's a shame for my faves to be 'wasted' and forgotten about. And it'd be nice to see something of mine 'for real', too, I think!
 
I agree with Lee O'D, all the photos I have printed look so much better in print than on the screen. I am printing more and more these days, there's lots of freebie offers on with the likes of Snapfish, Photobox etc so it seems a shame not to.
 
I think images were meant to be printed and it is so good to look back at the prints and remember the day. I just dont get the same buzz looking at a monitor.
 
I get prints made of some of my favourites. especially pictures of my grandkids which I keep in my handbag to show off to people. Its quite cheap on snapfish, cheaper I find than buying cartridges for my printer.
 
I`ve got a collection of wildlife shots on the wall of my kitchen.
 
I've been doing a photo-a-day project, and its forced me to think more about taking photo's - it's also been a great visual diary to look back on. I've printed lots of photo's up to 10x8, they're scattered all around my office/study - in fact i've run out of useable wall space, so now when I print something it get's framed on a one-in-one-out basis. The ones that are "demoted" go into a photo-album, and get browsed through periodically. I've also had a bit of a brainwave as to what to do with the final output - i'm going to turn out a photobook - seems a shame to do something as time/thought consuming without there being a real permanent record of it.
 
I have a spare room with office boards on the wall, I print 5x7s of which I can get about 16 on each. For me its much better than just keeping them on computer. I think I have about 12 boards in total.
 
I am glad to see so many of you want hard copies! That's what it was always about. I look back through my parents old photos and my son has looked at mine, but what about the next generation? Do they look out your memory stick or have you got a drwer with some pictures in for them to look at?
 
I love hard copies, it's all very well having data on my laptop but you can't beat sitting down with a coffee and sifting through a huge pile of pictures. My wife has them in frames all over the house. Added to which, for me a hard copy is the end product, they also look far better printed than on my screen.

I like the idea of a picture a day in a photobook :thumbs:
 
We've got a pano of Yosemite national park that I am looking at getting printed for the dining room, current size is 2m x 60cm I think so I've got some measuring to do yet.

Tbh, I don't feel that I have really taken any that I would be 100% happy to hang on my wall although friends have some of my pics of them.
 
Strangways said:
what about the next generation? Do they look out your memory stick or have you got a drwer with some pictures in for them to look at?
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The next generation will press a button on their 20TB stick and a pic will appear in the air in front of them.
I think printing the one or two favourites of the day is a really good idea, although I have a sinking feeling its a good idea in the same way as reading War and Peace.
btw Strangways - by process of elimination you must be the pigeon then.
 
print a lot of ours, wife loves doing photo albums to look back on, also provides some sort of backup facility if the hd/dvd/mem stick fails.

we have a fair few albums now, showing the kids (11 & 7) growing up - it's great to get the albums out once in a while and look thru them

Gary
 
I keep a lot of prints. Laminated of course. Tried an experiment once, two shots one laminated the other not laminated. Put them on the window ledge all summer. the unlaminated one faded a bit. Depends on the ink.
 
Strangways said:
I am glad to see so many of you want hard copies! That's what it was always about. I look back through my parents old photos and my son has looked at mine, but what about the next generation? Do they look out your memory stick or have you got a drwer with some pictures in for them to look at?
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There was a similar thread to this a while ago and I was surprised that most people admitted to never printing them out and only viewing them on the monitor.

If that was the case then I couldn't see why there is a general obsession with getting new cameras with ever increasing resolution as 2 mega pixels would be more than enough.

As for the next generation - hardly anyone is going to try to look at pictures on a memory stick or CD/DVD but most of us can't resist looking through an old album we have found.


Steve.
 
Whilst everything is currently stored on HD or DVD I want to buy a new printer soon so I can start putting prints up in the hallway and staircase.
For me photo's are meant to be printed :)
 
Reasonable pics get printed, good ones get A4 treatment and excellent ones (IMO) get A3ed. Don't really like looking at pics on a screen - either the res is too low to get any real idea of quality or the image is too big to fit on a single screen.
 
I love getting prints done, I just don't take many photos I feel are print worthy. I leave it a few months then send a few at a time to DSCL and print at 16x12 (A3ish) which works out at £1.30ish per print, and then my local hardware shop sells nice black frames with glass for £3, so I tend to frame a few of the better ones.
 
No, but it's a good idea - all my stuff is on the hard drive, and so unless I'm looking for something specific, they never see the light of day unless the PC is on...

Selecting a bunch of prints, even if they're just for the kitchen wall or fridge and rotating them periodically sounds like a plan to me...
 
in the family album
 
I'm thinking of making a photobook or a calender next year. It is a waste to have all these pictures but no where to show them off (other than digitally)
 
I print a few of my pictures from time to time.

My wife on the other hand likes to get a lot of my pictures printed, the last batch she got done totaled 150 images
 
It all depends.

I have a series of three from France on the kitchen wall, two canvas's in the hallway, a sunset from Turkey as a canvas in the lounge and another in the mother in laws house, plus a few more prints/canvas's sold to friends or given as presents.

Not to mention the family portrait shots as the kids grew up.

Then we have the scrapbooks my daughter/wife make, plus the photobooks I make of holidays.
 
Ive had a book printed of baby photos and I have quite a few pics printed up for club competitions so they are all in my portfolio now - its nice to have a look through them but I MUST get some on the wall
 
im only 15 so im doing it for a portfolio because it wont be long until college interviews, i also keep a folder of shots i love because i prefer to have a hard copy than some file on a computer.
 
I've a few printed and framed around the house but I've started doing photobooks of holidays and they are on a bookshelf rather than gathering dust in the back of a cupboard or on a computer being ignored.
 
ys, I do. I also make DVDs with my images to music.

May sound a bit weird, but my short term memory is quite poor. Even for big events like my wedding (which was only 4 years ago) hubby tells me things that I simply can't remember anymore and, given how I ended up taking my love for photography further, I do regret not having photographs taken, although there were good reasons why we chose not to have a photographer.
 
And today I went to Birling Gap and printed another collage to remind me. I just love it. Photo's weren't so good, but I enjoyed the day!
 
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