What do you do with your pics?

What do you do with your pictures? (Choose 2)

  • Post them on the web

    Votes: 77 75.5%

  • Sell them as files

    Votes: 10 9.8%

  • Sell them as prints

    Votes: 14 13.7%

  • Print them for albums (up to 5 x 7 1/2 ")

    Votes: 14 13.7%

  • Print them for frames and the wall

    Votes: 41 40.2%

  • Other (please state)

    Votes: 25 24.5%
  • Total voters
    102
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What's the normal end product of your efforts with a camera? Do you post them on the web? Sell them (prints or files)? Print them for albums (up to 5 x 7 1/2)? Print them for frames and the wall?
 
I display on the web, sell as files and for home use I display on my 40" HD TV. I do not print.

It's a pity there is no option to reflect viewing on a TV/media centre/computer other than on the web.
 
I think the poll is heavily flawed as I'm sure 90% of the images people on here take end up languishing on the hard drive of a PC for the occasional viewing when we are bored.
 
Print my best ones, display some online.
 
event stuff, print it there and then.

commissioned stuff, CD or download link usually, though I usually manage to upsell a lot of clients to some prints too. One of the coolest things done with a photo I took was print it onto the front of a drum kit... :D

portraits, prints.

personal work, web or facebook or a magazine that I shoot for for fun.

best of it all gets printed for print portfolio.

Print some of your work, it's so much nicer than seeing it on a screen, seriously. DSColourlabs are cheap and it's a great ego boost because you are holding a physical, tangible item.
 
a1ex2001 said:
I think the poll is heavily flawed as I'm sure 90% of the images people on here take end up languishing on the hard drive of a PC for the occasional viewing when we are bored.
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:plusone:
 
a1ex2001 said:
I think the poll is heavily flawed as I'm sure 90% of the images people on here take end up languishing on the hard drive of a PC for the occasional viewing when we are bored.
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What flaw? The final option is "Other, please state", which (to me) would include doing nothing with them (and stating so, as you have). Same answer to "Delete" and "Display on TV".
 
as above, mine are carefully extracted, stuck into a suitably titled folder and stored on a hdd usually never to see the light of day again :lol:
 
They either get deleted, posted to the internet, printed when I feel like changing what is already on the wall or they hide in the depths of my HD, never to be seen again.

Which reminds me, I really need to sort through them all!!
 
itsdavedotnet said:
event stuff, print it there and then.

commissioned stuff, CD or download link usually, though I usually manage to upsell a lot of clients to some prints too. One of the coolest things done with a photo I took was print it onto the front of a drum kit... :D

portraits, prints.

personal work, web or facebook or a magazine that I shoot for for fun.

best of it all gets printed for print portfolio.

Print some of your work, it's so much nicer than seeing it on a screen, seriously. DSColourlabs are cheap and it's a great ego boost because you are holding a physical, tangible item.
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I just print at my local chemist... tis good enough lol.
 
Rarely printed or posted to the web. Just shared with friends.
 
trencheel303 said:
I just print at my local chemist... tis good enough lol.
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seriously, try out dsc, their lustre prints will blow you away compared to tatty gloss stuff from boots :)
 
Some I post on the web, some I print, some I look at on my computer and others get looked at on TVs etc from multimedia devices!
 
I have to agree a print, even on my home printer they do turn out pretty good. Sometimes send them off if someone wants to buy one I think I have sold 8-10 lol, mostly to friends and family, hopefully not out of sympathy.

I went for the mostly lie on a my hard disk archived in Lightroom. Hopefully when I learn to use dream weaver I will have my own site to display but most of my best are online somewhere.
 
For my industrial / urbex stuff, I post on Flickr and on my website, for family stuff, I sometimes do prints, but at the end of every year I compile a yearbook on Blurb and put a load in that. Works out cheaper than buying prints and albums to put them in, and is a nice review of the year:)
 
Alot of mine just get lost on my hdd. some make it onto flickr, and then here. I've only ever printed 1 of my shots
 
Depends...some get submitted to stock agencies for sale, if they are approved they don't appear online anywhere else, if they are rejected I figure may as well stick them on flickr. Fun ones, i.e. family & friends stuff goes on my personal website. Some get printed for camera club entries or to go in albums.
 
I can't really answer the poll as several apply...

Some I never do anything with except leave on my harddrive :shrug:

Some I print and sell in craft centres/galleries :)

Some I sell/display on my website :)

Some I'm lucky enough to have had published :)

Some are rubbish and I delete them :'(


Simon
 
Interesting that the most popular option by far is posting on the internet. Also interesting is that the vast majority of people who have added comments (and probably the majority of people who responded to the poll) are DSLR users. Sort of begs the question why people bother with high pixel counts and expensive lenses when many of their pix get shrunt to way less than camera phone sixed files and displayed on less than perfect media!
 
a1ex2001 said:
I think the poll is heavily flawed as I'm sure 90% of the images people on here take end up languishing on the hard drive of a PC for the occasional viewing when we are bored.
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Totally.

May is the 1 year anniversary of me getting my camera, and I've yet to actually make a print. Going to make some photobooks though, as it looks like a nice way to print & share a collection.

I tend to post a few to the internet, but only the occasional shot I'm really happy with.
 
Nod said:
Interesting that the most popular option by far is posting on the internet. Also interesting is that the vast majority of people who have added comments (and probably the majority of people who responded to the poll) are DSLR users. Sort of begs the question why people bother with high pixel counts and expensive lenses when many of their pix get shrunt to way less than camera phone sixed files and displayed on less than perfect media!
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Good comment, however for me I find the shutter delay and noise levels make me loathed to use my compact or camera phone for any important shots, although it's true that they certainly are more convenient and you're more likely to have a snaller camera with you.
 
n1kcy said:
Good comment, however for me I find the shutter delay and noise levels make me loathed to use my compact or camera phone for any important shots, although it's true that they certainly are more convenient and you're more likely to have a snaller camera with you.
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Quite agree, for me the biggest reasons for using a DSLR are the response time, DOF control and iso performance. Give me a compact at a comparable price and I'd be more than happy which is why I'm looking forward to Canon/Nikons entry into the market place currently occupied by the G1 and PEN for me that is where the future of my photography lies.
 
I did look at going back to a bridge camera last year, as I'd rather not have to carry around different lenses and I am terrible for getting a dusty sensor as I do alot of stuff outside, but I couldn't find anything that was up to replacing a DSLR.
 
Can i change my answer :D

I used to save on the lappy as I wasn't happy with the printed copies I had done, I've just recieved my first 20"x30" in the post from Jessops and am now on cloud 9 and planning where I'm going to put all these prints I'm going to get done lol :D
 
I develop them, scan them into the computer, and print "contact proofs" for negatives. I'll then work up a few of the files into proper prints for the album at 10x8, downsize the odd one for display on here and filckr, and occasionally either print them for framing and display, or send out for printing at larger sizes. Some of them, I even manage to sell, or in one case swap for a camera...
 
Had to tick 4 :-

Put on web album
Sell a Desktop Image
Sell a Hi-Res for Personal Printing
Sell a Hi-Res for Commercial Use
Sell an A4 Glossy Print
Sell an A3 Card Mounted Glossy Print

Not that sales are brilliant but they are ok, would like to see less of my watermarks on facebook but you can't beat the cr*p out of kids nowadays :lol:

But I do have HDDs and DVDs full of photo going back 5years of Supermoto/Motocross and Powerboat Racing!

Carl.
 
A bit of everything really:

Film:
Most get destroyed for being rubbish.
Those that stay get shoved in photo albums and then vanish into the deep dark recess of hell that is known as my wardrobe.

Digital:
Most get deleted for being rubbish.
Those that remain sit on the external hard drive and I go through them when I'm bored and delete even more rubbish ones.
The slightly less rubbish ones go onto Flickr.
Very occasionally one might get printed out but that doesn't tend to happen more than about 3 times per year.
And, suddenly, this year I've had some people actually wanting copies of my pictures. And that really excites me whilst freaking me out at the same time. After all I'm not exactly in the league of proper photographers.
 
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