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May 31, 2018 08:34:14   #
AFPhoto Loc: Jamestown, RI, USA
 
My wife and I have decided to travel extensively in retirement. In the last several years we have been to Australia, New Zealand, China, south East Asia, Peru and Ecuador. This year we will visit Cuba and an African safari. On each of these trips I normally take 3 to 500 photos. When I get home I use Photomechanic to quickly review them and I typically transfer about 150 to Lightroom for editing and often a few into Photoshop for manipulation. The question that I have is what do most folks do with these pictures. Asking family and friends to sit around and look at 150 or more of your favorite photos seem quite intrusive. I have started to generate coffee table books using Lightroom Blurb or Apple books and this seem to be working. Any other ideas.

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May 31, 2018 08:36:56   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
I like your book presentation of your selected photographs.

Another option: You could display your photographs on a monitor that presents a slideshow of them all.

An obvious option: Print and hang selected photographs. You could rotate these photographs from your collection, maybe with a theme to them.

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May 31, 2018 08:38:49   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
I save them, tweak the better ones, and usually post one a week on my FB page.
I also have a digital album (frame) on a table where I put my favorites to display.
I've printed a few for hanging in the house.

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May 31, 2018 08:44:01   #
PaulB Loc: Alabama
 
I broker may photos down to the best of the best and go online to "Snapfish.com" and assemble a photo book with comments identifying where the photos were made and any amplifying information that may apply. They have lots of "specials" and discounts. Makes it easy when friends ask, "How was your trip?" Just hand them the book.

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May 31, 2018 08:53:50   #
Hip Coyote
 
Photo books.

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May 31, 2018 09:13:57   #
zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas
 
I have had a Flickr page for over ten years now, and I still use it to upload my travel pictures. I like that I can upload pictures at full resolution, and I can add any amount of text. I can create online albums--each image can be in multiple albums. Then I send the link to the finished album to family and friends. Unfortunately, Flickr for some years was the unloved stepchild of the crumbling Yahoo empire. Flickr was recently acquired by SmugMug. They announced that they want to maintain Flickr as a separate service, at least for the time being.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/albums

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May 31, 2018 09:19:28   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
Categorize them, post-process, and then usually never see them again.

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May 31, 2018 09:20:23   #
BebuLamar
 
I edit them and save them. I print some of the shots I like to hang in my home. I don't show my pictures to others.

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May 31, 2018 09:21:01   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
If you are computer savvy, I'd consider a stand-alone website. I believe templates are cheap, if not free, and registering a domain name is minimal also (yearly fee). Wouldn't it be fun to have a site called AFPhotoTravels? Your friends and family could check in every few months to see "where in the world is..."

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May 31, 2018 09:38:46   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
If you are computer savvy, I'd consider a stand-alone website. I believe templates are cheap, if not free, and registering a domain name is minimal also (yearly fee). Wouldn't it be fun to have a site called AFPhotoTravels? Your friends and family could check in every few months to see "where in the world is..."



(I'm remiss at keeping mine updated. )

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May 31, 2018 09:45:35   #
Silverman Loc: Michigan
 
AFPhoto wrote:
My wife and I have decided to travel extensively in retirement. In the last several years we have been to Australia, New Zealand, China, south East Asia, Peru and Ecuador. This year we will visit Cuba and an African safari. On each of these trips I normally take 3 to 500 photos. When I get home I use Photomechanic to quickly review them and I typically transfer about 150 to Lightroom for editing and often a few into Photoshop for manipulation. The question that I have is what do most folks do with these pictures. Asking family and friends to sit around and look at 150 or more of your favorite photos seem quite intrusive. I have started to generate coffee table books using Lightroom Blurb or Apple books and this seem to be working. Any other ideas.
My wife and I have decided to travel extensively i... (show quote)


How about "Stock Photo Agencies"???

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May 31, 2018 10:11:02   #
deer2ker Loc: Nashville, TN
 
I don't know if you have kids or not but I am in the process of transferring my parents slides of their travels into "shutterfly" type books. It means a lot to me seeing their photos and I will be handing them down to our kids. What may seem a private collection for you, is usually a prize for some other generation. Keep the best and favorite and immortalize them!

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May 31, 2018 10:14:59   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
I only take pictures my wife asks me too. My memory is always better than a photograph (SSS* combination).

The few I take may sit for a couple of years before I look at them again. Then the 'selection' is more like a slaughter house. Few survive at all.

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Sight, Sound, Smell. One can add 'Feel and Taste' at times.

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May 31, 2018 10:19:54   #
bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA
 
AFPhoto,

What to do with travel photos? My workflow is similar. My end results go two directions.

First is a gallery wall in my office. I made a set of eight frames that have slots that allow me to quickly slide 13x19 prints in and out. I painted the wall gallery gray and hung gallery lights from IKEA. After a trip I pick eight favorites, print them on a Canon Pro-100. I enjoy looking at them until the next trip. Sometimes I invite others to look at my prints but the truth is that there is not a lot of traffic through my home office.

Second is new to me. You write that you use Lightroom and Photoshop. Assuming your are on the $10 plan, you have Portfolio. It took me a full day to figure Portfolio out and I needed Adobe's Terry White Youtube tutorials to do it. Now I have a system, controlled by LR Classic, to put images on https://billsprague.myportfolio.com/. I've printed business cards with that link so when (rarely!) asked by fellow travelers, I can invite them to view my work.

A side benefit to the Adobe Portfolio method is that it works on anything, anywhere. If someone wants to see pictures of your last trip, you can use their phone, tablet or computer. Even newer 4K "smart" TVs can do it.

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May 31, 2018 10:36:50   #
boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
 
I occasionally show pics to familly members, who politely say nice picture. That's as far as it goes.

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