How do you view your photos ???

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Had a few useful suggestions in this post but still unclear ...http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=5687603#post5687603

So - please let me know how you view your photos?

In the olden days I used to get photos printed, then fill albums full of 6x4s which got passed round to family, friends or visitors - for example after a holiday or birthday.

Nowadays with an iPad (or other tablet) this seems (to me) to be the perfect album - everyone can swipe left or right with a finger - from a child, to a granny or anyone in between.

But (assuming you do this) how do you prepare the photos to be viewed on the device ?

Do you upload them straight from the camera?
Do you put them onto the computer to edit then copy/sync them onto it
Do you upload them online first then browse via a website or app?

I have a 64gb iPad but with music, books and apps I have approx 10gb free so I can't just sync all my photos onto the device.

Interested in how you do it :thinking:
 
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First off I put on my reading glasses, :lol: only joking

before anything else I put them onto DVD then on to the computer I don't fully trust hard drives after I had a major production fault with one of them

After checking and editing those I like I print out myself , half the enjoyment is producing your own prints as one would like them
Occasionally post some on sites like this if there may be an interest in the subject matter and some with online storage
 
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I view mine on my wide screen TV or on PC, if I ever get one that I thought was great, then I would get it printed. Saved to both PC and external hard drive, I would not store my photos on photo storage places.
 
realspeed said:
First off I put on my reading glasses, :lol: only joking

before anything else I put them onto DVD then on to the computer I don't fully trust hard drives after I had a major production fault with one of them

After checking and editing those I like I print out myself , half the enjoyment is producing your own prints as one would like them
Occasionally post some on sites like this if there may be an interest in the subject matter and some with online storage
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Luckily I can still see ok :thumbs:

I have got a few printed for the wall or frames and a couple made into canvases.

But again, like the olden days I wouldn't have put all the prints from say a holiday onto the wall - most would be put into an album.

jonbeeza said:
I view mine on my wide screen TV or on PC, if I ever get one that I thought was great, then I would get it printed. Saved to both PC and external hard drive, I would not store my photos on photo storage places.
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How do you get them to the TV ?

What are you concerns with photo storage places?


Do people just leave their precious memories hidden away in a folder on the hard disk and not enjoy them :shrug:
 
bl0at3r said:
How do you get them to the TV ?

What are you concerns with photo storage places?


Do people just leave their precious memories hidden away in a folder on the hard disk and not enjoy them :shrug:
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To view on the TV, simply insert the memory card in the media slot at the side of the TV, and view.

The reason I would not store on media storage places, is because do don't know what could happen to them, I prefer to keep them safe on my own devices.

The photos I take would bore most people, besides I take them for my own enjoyment, and help me recall a specific time and event.
 
All my photos are put into lightroom, then edited, sometimes cs5 as well
Then saved to wherever they are needed, prints ordered or onto card for digital photo frame
As for ipad, you could always upload the ones you want to view to Flickr or similar, then you can view on any device you like anywhere you like (internet connection dependent of course) without killing the storage memory
 
First thing I do is copy them to my hard-drive on my laptop, and if they're important photos such as family gatherings (weddings/christenings/birthdays/christmas/etc...) I copy them over to my external hard-drive too.

Then usually upload them to either:
a.) facebook - if they're family gatherings or friends etc...
b.) photobucket - if I'm going to be posting them on a forum (Urbex photo's or landcapes or random events etc...)

Don't tend to edit any of my photo's usually, I love the effects some people get through editing, but I also love the raw unedited truthfulness of the original unedited photos.
 
Upload to 'puter and backup the whole lot.
Weed out all the carp from the work in progress folder.
Print (or if there's a special offer and enough deserve it!) a load of enprints.
Select the best and tweak slightly for A4 prints.
Look at the A4s more closely and if any deserve it, tweak again (from a copy of the original file) for A3+ prints.
 
Bit source dependent; I have a heck of a lot of old photo's still on film, in negative archive binders, being slowly digitised. However.
Original Images, straight from camera get cleared from SD card to a 'Master' folder on the HDD.
Scans, go into a temp-folder; they get a bit of tweeking before going into a 'master' folder, on the HDD.
Master-Folders get read-only protection, then copied to create a 'Display' folder.
I then review the images in the display folder. Where I have 'shot-gunned', I'll go through and thin them down deleting ones that are so similar as not worth keeping; weeding out total duffers. Then I look at each and ask "is what is in the frame is an entirty?"... it rarely is. Most shots can benefit from a little tweek or crop. While I'm at that, I ask 'is there another image in here?' And I look for potential derivatives, whether selective crops or manipulations.... then I go play.
If any derivatives work.... they get kept in display folder, with derivative file name to relate them to original.
The Display image folder gets copied again, to 'Upload', each image sized for web-display, around 1000 or less pixels on longest edge.
Master, Display & Upload folders, sub-folders of the set folder, which periodically get Archived to DVD, backing up, masters, full res and low res 'display' images.

Right... that's storage & back-up/archive.

Display? Depends what the pictures are for.

I take a lot of pictures specifically to illustrate motorbike or Land-Rover mechanics.. these will usually be for the forum, answering a question, or illustrating a 'How2' post. Many will be uploaded straight to Photo-bucket, at upload resolution. Some will go into forum up-load space.

They will be viewed in posts on whatever forum, and or on my webby, so whoever is interested can see them.

Rest? More personal photo's; go up to Face book. Mainly because rest of my family use it. So logical place for me to put photo's from old family events; my brother's christening; my grand-parents golden wedding anniversary, days out with my kids, that sort of stuff.

I have about five and a half thousand snaps on F-B..... albums are viewer restricted depending on subject; so some are only available to immediete family; some to freinds, others to any-one who wants to look.

I don't have 'showings', I don't hand round an album.... if people want to see my pictures, they either know where to find them if they are interested, or they find them because they are interested.
 
Teflon-Mike said:
Bit source dependent; I have a heck of a lot of old photo's still on film, in negative archive binders, being slowly digitised. However.
Original Images, straight from camera get cleared from SD card to a 'Master' folder on the HDD.
Scans, go into a temp-folder; they get a bit of tweeking before going into a 'master' folder, on the HDD.
Master-Folders get read-only protection, then copied to create a 'Display' folder.
I then review the images in the display folder. Where I have 'shot-gunned', I'll go through and thin them down deleting ones that are so similar as not worth keeping; weeding out total duffers. Then I look at each and ask "is what is in the frame is an entirty?"... it rarely is. Most shots can benefit from a little tweek or crop. While I'm at that, I ask 'is there another image in here?' And I look for potential derivatives, whether selective crops or manipulations.... then I go play.
If any derivatives work.... they get kept in display folder, with derivative file name to relate them to original.
The Display image folder gets copied again, to 'Upload', each image sized for web-display, around 1000 or less pixels on longest edge.
Master, Display & Upload folders, sub-folders of the set folder, which periodically get Archived to DVD, backing up, masters, full res and low res 'display' images.

Right... that's storage & back-up/archive.

Display? Depends what the pictures are for.

I take a lot of pictures specifically to illustrate motorbike or Land-Rover mechanics.. these will usually be for the forum, answering a question, or illustrating a 'How2' post. Many will be uploaded straight to Photo-bucket, at upload resolution. Some will go into forum up-load space.

They will be viewed in posts on whatever forum, and or on my webby, so whoever is interested can see them.

Rest? More personal photo's; go up to Face book. Mainly because rest of my family use it. So logical place for me to put photo's from old family events; my brother's christening; my grand-parents golden wedding anniversary, days out with my kids, that sort of stuff.

I have about five and a half thousand snaps on F-B..... albums are viewer restricted depending on subject; so some are only available to immediete family; some to freinds, others to any-one who wants to look.

I don't have 'showings', I don't hand round an album.... if people want to see my pictures, they either know where to find them if they are interested, or they find them because they are interested.
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Wow !

Your point about 'showings' - I can understand that alot of people use the internet and can look stuff up if they want, but do you not have any older family members who do not 'Facebook'?

What if you have visitors round for tea and they ask about your holiday - do you reply 'you can find the pictures on Facebook if you want!?' :lol:
 
jonbeeza said:
The photos I take would bore most people, besides I take them for my own enjoyment, and help me recall a specific time and event.
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You haven't seen some of mine :lol:

BruceMo said:
As for ipad, you could always upload the ones you want to view to Flickr or similar, then you can view on any device you like anywhere you like (internet connection dependent of course) without killing the storage memory
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Thanks - that's what I have done but am trying picasa online albums

u1bd2005 said:
Don't tend to edit any of my photo's usually, I love the effects some people get through editing, but I also love the raw unedited truthfulness of the original unedited photos.
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Agreed - sometimes a photo can look just as good 'straight out of the camera'

Nod said:
Print (or if there's a special offer and enough deserve it!) a load of enprints.
Select the best and tweak slightly for A4 prints.
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I do enjoy printing some of my shots but wouldn't do a whole 'events' worth
 
Looking back at the OP (to see if there was any mention of events or pros", I saw a reference to "everyone" being able to swipe a finger across a screen. Well, not everyone can. This time last year, I'm not sure I could! And I know damn well that Mum couldn't after her subarachnoid haemorrhage before she died. She could however see prints and (sometimes) tell the nurses who was in the photos, especially the A3s I did of a few group shots at family events.

Last time I did an "event" I did do a load of enprints - not hundreds but about 40. Of those, only a couple got A4ed and none got A3ed - in fact, the end use for most was web use but that's very rare for me.
 
bl0at3r said:
Your point about 'showings' - I can understand that alot of people use the internet and can look stuff up if they want, but do you not have any older family members who do not 'Facebook'?
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There is only one generation of my family left, who is older then I am.
I have grand-kids!
I joined face book as my KIDS grand-parents were asking where the photo's were on it!
bl0at3r said:
What if you have visitors round for tea and they ask about your holiday - do you reply 'you can find the pictures on Facebook if you want!?' :lol:
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1/ pre-supposed I have visitors.
2/ that I have holidays
3/ that visitors are in any way interested in my holiday!

However... my computer is in the living room, it's a media center, and has TV tuner card in it, to be the TV as well as prime player for the Hi-Fi.

If I have visitors interested in any of my pics.... I just open Face-Book!
Usually faster and easier to pull them up from there than go hunting the hard drive! PLUS on Face-Book you can tag every-one in the pics and write a little bit about whats going on in them.
 
I put mine on the iPad, but being a 'fluid' device, I contantly update what is on there and remove the older photos that aren't viewed. I also resize the photos down a tad to save space (I haven't noticed it having a difference on the quality).
 
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