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Posting on Talk Photography, Flickr, Facebook? How many of you regularly get photographs printed?

The thought just popped into my head today... I've been into photography for about 4 years now, and the amount of images I have actually had printed doesn't go far into double figures. I think it's a shame that most of our photos (mine) are left hidden away on a hardrive, never to be put on paper (despite how poor some of them may be ;))

So I've decided I'm going to start printing more photographs! How do you choose to print yours? Traditional style photo album, photobooks or framed on the wall?

Is anyone else in the same boat?
 
Prints. Apart from weeding out the (multitude of!) cr@p, I rarely look at them on screen. I have a load of albums of 6x4 prints that get looked at from time to time, a cheap hanging frame of 8 that's double sided and they get changed from time to time as well as several frames up to A3 which also get changed occasionally. I do my own prints at home and also take a small printer away on holiday so I can print my own postcards to send back. Quite apart from being able to choose exactly what scenes to send to which people, it also works out cheaper than buying postcards!
 
Loads of odd frames on picture rails in my living room. Nothing nailed down so can be moved around when the mood takes. Will post a pic if you want inspiration? :)
 
We make an annual blurb book of all the family photos of the year, as well as print stuff out to show the rest of the family. Other family stuff goes on Facebook. Other photography goes on flickr and my website or gets printed in various sizes, anything between 6x4 and A3, for archiving.
 
Sharing - a rag-bag of stuff on-line (Flickr - a bit unstructured); public exhibition of prints when possible (a more structured display, and needs the complicity of a gallery).

Prints at home - limited by wall space! Change them round occasionally. Rather than hanging, it's possible to stand mounted pictures on narrow shelves (say 50mm deep with a shallow groove to register the bottoms of the frames). I have two such shelves some 1.5m long, one above the other on an area of wall.

Albums were an earlier method. More recently I did a Blurb book and ordered a dozen to give to friends but though it has many photos it's more than a photobook and has lots of text as well.
 
12 months ago, after 2 years of snapping away at the same subjects and learning little, I used one of the free 6x4 offers to see what my photos looked like and was largely disappointed. Recently i've done the same, but used several offers and have been happier with the prints; i definitely see photos differently on paper and appreciate composition a lot more.
I've been wondering what to do with all these prints now though as they're just sitting in the printers' envelopes :lol:
 
I like putting them on a tablet. That way I have something I can hand round when people want to see my photos, but with the advantage that I can easy add more without having to get them printed.

That said, when I do order prints, Photo Box usually have them at my door within 36 hours.
 
Off topic…
Rankbadyin said:
I use my photos extensively as a backdrop to my Music channel on You Tube, so rather than just being seen by the few visitors to my house I have over 1 Million viewers to my site.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kerrsteel
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Lovely playing and very relaxing to see your slideshow! :clap: I've just subscribed ;) My OH has a lap steel guitar - I'll have to encourage him to practice!

On topic… I post on Flickr, and have only just started printing some out. I keep planning to cover my walls, but still don't feel I have the material yet!
 
Have a load printed out and framed round the house and de nice photo books of others.
 
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