What do we do with our photos?

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I am just generally interested what we do with our images once taken?

Mine seem to remain on the hard drive (except the one my mum has on the walls!) and Flickr

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Same for me... Then again if they were good enough to print they would be up on the wall :)
 
Those I take for may own plesure. Some I have printed and framed to hang around the house. Some I display through the tv, when theres nothing worth watching (Often). My grandchildren enjoy looking at the ones of the family. Some are put on flickr.
 
vetonbike said:
Those I take for may own plesure. Some I have printed and framed to hang around the house. Some I display through the tv, when theres nothing worth watching (Often). My grandchildren enjoy looking at the ones of the family. Some are put on flickr.
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Exactly. Just to add I haven't thrown away a single photo all kept. Done of them on my Facebook which is strictly family, since my family are scattered all over the world, it is a nice way to share.
 
I print a blurb book every year of all the things we've done and places we've been as a family, got 6 or 7 of these now. I do print some individual images out to give to family, and most go on Facebook for people we don't see as often.

My own 'personal' work is mostly on my website/blog, as well as Flickr. I only print this out for competitions and portfolios, and sometimes for the purposes of image selection. I'm just in the process of putting together an FRPS portfolio and I much prefer to look at prints in these circumstances.
 
Hard-drive and Flickr.. but every few months I have a selection printed at DSCL. Some are done album sized (c.8") for my personal portfolio but I always get a couple printed at around 18"x12". I have a couple of drawers in my desk that are full of these images. It's handy when I need a greetings card at short notice - pull an appropriate image from the drawer and a blank greetings card from the box.

It reminds me that they are photographs and don't really exist until they're on paper. One of the reasons that I like instant/polaroid so much. It's there, in your hand, in a couple of minutes.
 
The ones of my kids (which is most of them) get printed out and displayed in the various frames round the house.

I also tend to put them on my digital photo frame and also my iPad
 
i sort them into there respective folders, flick and face book them, then store them, maybe a digital photo frame would be a good idea, also i'd like to have a go at making my own photo book from the mac site.
 
hmdesign said:
I am just generally interested what we do with our images once taken?
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They are mostly deleted - because I'm crap!!! :'( :bonk:
 
Sell them :)
 
90% are deleted as I am know I will never go back and look at them again. I am still in the early stages of learning and a lot of what I am trying to capture doesn't work out as I expected.
I also do not take photos of sentimental things so don't find this approach difficult.
 
I'm in the process of going through several years worth of NEF files from my old D70s & D700 cameras and "pruning" them down to just the shots I actually like.

I have ended up deleting about 95% of the shots, but that probably still leaves me with a few hundred!

I don't print many and mainly put them online to Google+, Flickr, Deviant Art & Facebook.
 
Just the norm for me. Up on Facebook, Flickr and a few other websites but that's it really.
 
I think it's very old fashioned when people say if you don't print them it's wasted. Far from it
I like seeing a nice photo on a high res screen

They don't fade or get dusty here
My stuff ends up on the links in my sig below
 
Some of my personal work finds its way onto flickr; family pics get e-mailed and a bit of Facebook.

Work shots go into print in the various mags I work on
 
I put the best ones on my digital photo frame, print a few really good ones out, put a few on Flickr and the rest I keep on the hard drive and when I'm not busy I'll have a trawl through them. At least I don't have to get loads of boxes out to have a look. I've got over 42,000 photos on my drive, some going back more than 10 years, so it's nice to have a look and see how things have changed.
 
Hard drive for all of them. Some sets on Flickr for sharing with interested parties.
I've created family albums on Facebook for both sides of my family and we are gradually building up a collection of new and old (scanned) pics.
 
Most sit on the HDDs but a few get printed to A4 and the best of them get printed to A3. My favourites then get framed and hung on the wall.
 
To keep them on the HDD reminds me of those art collexctors who store their art in cellars to gloat over. I have them printed into photobooks and hawk them round galleries etc, then print and sell through them. I give a lot away to friends and family, others are 'sold' off my walls :):)
 
Mostly, sit on my hard drive. Some on Flickr. The half a dozen printed ones are kept flat but I've not gotten around to framing them yet. I have a lot of raw files I've not processed but I keep just in case - with external drives so cheap, why chuck photos I may someday wish I hadn't?

I plan to do a photo book at some point of a few, bit never get around to it.
 
I keep all originals on hard drives and put some on Photobucket for linking to various forums.

I keep the bad ones as well and compare different settings for the same photo or the same subject with different lighting, different time of day etc.

I am going through a panorama phase so I have hundreds of pics of similar subjects for comparison of settings and post processing.

CHEERS
 
I just started darkroom printing mine, well the film shots anyway and some alternative process printing from digital files to antique processes.
Some on my website, some going for sale but all just hobby.
I guess im building a hard copy legacy for what would otherwise just be deleted zeros and ones when we die
 
Some get put on a digi photo frame, some sent to family, some posted on Photobucket, some used as inspiration for my paintings.
 
Nod said:
Most sit on the HDDs but a few get printed to A4 and the best of them get printed to A3. My favourites then get framed and hung on the wall.
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Did some printing yesterday and have discovered that even just using the default windows photo viewer, both the D700 and HS30 give great results with NO PP.Colours are right, sharpness is fine and the cropping's even acceptable. Its just a shame that cameras can't be set to A aspect ratios or that papers aren't available in 3:2 much larger than 6x4. Unless anyone knows different! I do however have a pal who has access to a commercial paper guillotine so could get some A4 and A3+ cut down to my own specifications but he's always very bust at work and I don't want to make his time any tighter!
 
im a sad act and have kept probably 6000 images on the computer hdd and another 2000 on an external drive... and ive only taken about 10,000 on this camera. haha

I dont know what it is but i always think, "what if somebody wants a copy of that" or "what if i want a copy of that"
 
I keep every shot I have ever taken on HDD (sad I know) and though I only occasionally look back, it's good to see how you've progressed.

For special holidays/events, I sometimes print the odd one off for a photo frame for the house.

I also sometimes make photo-books as surprise birthday/Xmas gifts for friends/family, who always seem delighted with them.

Andrew
 
Most are on my PC, backed up to two different locations. Some are on Flickr and a few have been printed. Really must sort through my old directories and cull the ones that don't need keeping. I also have several rolls of film that need scanning... Never enough time, eh?
 
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