Your own pictures on the wall at home, or not?

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I was wondering how people felt about this. Do you enjoy seeing your own pictures at home or is it something you avoid?
 
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Once I take something wall worthy lol it's getting blown up big and put in my living room
 
Got lots of my own pics on the wall, granted they are pics of my kids.

But I would definatly put my own pic on the wall. If anything it feels wrong to put someone elses work up now!
 
I've seen some stunning photos on this forum that I would love to have on my wall it makes me go out there and try harder to create my own.
 
I love having my pictures on the wall. As most of them remind me of the place or time when I took them.

I have a big canvas on the living room wall of a shot I took in St.Ives. Its a place I love and a stunning view. Makes me proud to know I have taken the picture and when others visit and they ask, I tell them its mine. :)
 
my place is full of landscapes, flowers and our kids images, i'm proud of my better work and like to look at it.
 
krisuk2008 said:
Once I take something wall worthy lol it's getting blown up big and put in my living room
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:plusone: to this.. im still a newbie to photography & luvin it so far & as soon as i get the shot i see fit its gettin blown up & put to canvas print on my wall..
 
Put some up anyway...if it's cheap enough to print. Why not? Then you can change them as you get better.

I have 2 or 3 of mine (of the girls) and a couple of others too. I also have 2 images up that my 6 year old took...she is very proud of them (so am I, they are excellent!). :)

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I've got some prints of my finger prints on the wall, I did some ink versions and then took some macro photos of them. Just something different from your usual landscapes etc. I've also got a large digital photo frame cycling a bunch of my photos.
 
Definitely yes...too many people have forgotten about printing and how great they look framed on your wall - why leave your photos lost on your harddrive!!

Simon
 
Yep, got a couple up. One of a sunset taken when we were in Canada and one of our son.

Oh, I forgot, there's also one of mine in the local Scouts calendar!

Get some up, it took me a while to take the plunge so to speak but it's a good feeling seeing my images hanging on the wall.

Paul.

p.s helps when my wife works at a repro-graphics company and can get prints done for freeeeeeee!!
 
if you leave them in the computer , they get forgotted, I'll try to print something from a trip even if its just a 4x6 to put in the book.
 
My office walls are covered in my own photos, my bedroom has some other stuff on it, but again some of my own.
 
I recently had one of mine printed 20x30 and i surface mounted it. Looks the bomb. Most of my keepers get printed many of them for college at the moment.
Have to produce three images for my final work to go on exhibit. Last year we were restricted to a4 this year the world is our oyster! Can't wait
 
You should have your own work on show to inspire you. It's also a great conversation maker if people visit your home.

I have these 3 printed large hanging in my hallway.

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I've also got a 4'x2' frame with 12 different mount sizes in my office, photo's from my trip to OZ are currently in it.
 
I used to have a few landscapes on canvas, but after various issues, I gave them to my mother for her new place. I still get that glow of pride seeing my work on show in her place, my sisters and her in laws, who had a massive canvas printed from a panorama I took.

At home now I've only got two 10"xwhatever of my wife that we are both proud of. No doubt that'll change once my little one arrives this month
 
I plan on covering my walls with my work, if I view it as good enough to blow up and have mounted on a wall then I want other people to see it when they come around and enjoy seeing it as much as me.
 
I had two prints in an exhibition over Christmas and New Year and so they're printed, mounted and framed - so when I get them back I'm going to put them up on the wall.
 
I have numerous prints of mine on the walls at home, and do change them regularly. I also have a few on the wall at work.

Just on the PC they would not be looked at :thumbsdown:
 
Only one, on the left.

Mine is printed on 300gsm museum quality fine art print. Both mounted bespoke with MIROGARD glass.



 
As I see it pictures are meant to be looked at.

I have a large white wall in the kitchen, I got some black picture rails from Ikea and ran two rows along the wall. I then got a load of black ikea frames to hold 10x8 and 16x12 prints. I had mounts custom made to take the images and also in a nice white shade (not magnolia like the ikea mounts). I have a load of images up there and people always say nice things, plus I dont get bored of looking at them. If i take any better images i can always swop them around.
 
Not only at home. When we moved in to new offices a several years ago I got half a dozen of my pics framed and put on the walls. I assume they're still there.
 
Yep! Only a couple of prints, but also a canvas on the wall in the lounge. Just a very generic macro flower type shot... But still makes me happy every time I look at it.

If you're worried people might think you a just doing it to show off or 'pose' as they said back in the day, then stop worrying and do it... The comments I have had have all been positive, and it's a very average pic (but it's MY very average pic and that's what counts)
 
I sometimes get A3 prints done as gifts for people - normally get them mounted on 5mm foamboard and laminated as I much prefer this "minimal" look to traditional frames.

Must get some to hang on my own walls :cool:
 
Strangely enough I have only one up in the bungalow.
We used to live in a 3 bed semi,and all the way up the stairs I hung prints.
When we where selling it I was showing a guy up stairs and as we went up He looked at the prints and said " I see you like the Lake District then."

I said "what,Oh ,those.No, thats Switzerland and the Italian Dolomites."
She said after, "you put Him in His place".
He was being a pr#ck ,but I had done it in all innocence.:shrug:
 
I have several of my own pictures on display in the house (plus several other photographers pictures too). There is a large canvas of our children and grandchildren which was taken for Mother's day last year on the wall in the lounge. Going up the stairs are three garden birds I shot last winter from my mother's conservatory.

Dotted around the house are pictures of the kids/grandkids either hanging on the walls or in standing frames. These get changed from time to time particulatly as the GC's get older. There are also half a dozen pictures on the wall in my office that get changed on a fairly regular basis.

I like to see my pictures in print :)
 
I have loads on my study wall for two reasons: obviously I like myself and others to see them but secondly because it gives me an incentive to improve my photography. I'll replace one now and then but only if I get a better photo than any of the ones already there. So, if I'm getting bored with the same pictures every day then I'd better go and take some better ones! If they don't get replaced then I'm not improving.
 
I have some framed images and i have a picture board that has images cycled through it. when i'm bored of seeing the same images i take some off the board and put some new ones up.

M.
 
I have only two small ones...a couple of B&W scenes from Cornwall and everytime I look at them I want to throw them in the bin to be honest, I really must replace them with something that doesn't make me want to beat myself up everytime!

As for my main photography subject, motorsport, nope not one and I don't think that will change - I don't want them on my wall.
 
I've been considering getting three A4 frames and having three of my photos above my desk. But they'd be changed regularly and it feels pretentious.
 
If they're not good enough for my wall in my house - I should either give up now or improve to the point that they are good enough.
 
I have a few but the majority of my own work are pictures of my little boy. These are my real treasures.

The misses likes these two so I got them framed:


Optimus Prime by Pat MacInnes, on Flickr


Dummy by Pat MacInnes, on Flickr

I'm loving the idea of getting an A3+ printer so I can rotate images a bit more frequently. I give a lot of images away at Christmas to family - I see it as a cheap way to get through Xmas and my family are proud of what I do.
 
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BBB - that big image is mahoosive! Was it expensive and why is it actually printed on?
 
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