What to do?
Dec 30, 2012 12:50:22 #
Over the last couple of years I have taken and printed about 40 photos of which I can be proud of. Of those I have 15 hanging on my walls. I usually print everything 11x14. What do you all do with your best photos that don't make the wall?
Dec 30, 2012 13:06:36 #
I start with 4 X 6 prints of my keepers in albums. Then I select my favorites for my "wall gallery". When I like a new one better, the replaced ones go into a file forder for...I don't know why.
Edit: Second thought, reference folder for what could have been improved?
Edit: Second thought, reference folder for what could have been improved?
Dec 30, 2012 13:12:45 #
That is one problem I don't seem to have. I had to send my camera in to have a new delete button installed. They only last about a hundred million deletes. I got a heavy duty one. :-(
Dec 30, 2012 13:19:16 #
40, sheesh, I do that in a month
Me, personally if I only managed 100 in a year I would give up
Me, personally if I only managed 100 in a year I would give up
Dec 30, 2012 13:36:44 #
I have a folder for "Favourites", and some of them will get used as desktop background till I fancy a change.
Dec 30, 2012 16:16:51 #
Dec 30, 2012 17:46:02 #
My bride likes to swap them out from time to time, so they get recycled.
I have about 60 matted images in a storage closet and we simply swap them into the same frames (most of the time) on the walls where we have a photo gallery or a lone image in a strategic place..
This makes automatic room for new work and allows for some familiar favorites to rest out of sight for a year or two before making a welcomed encore.
I have about 60 matted images in a storage closet and we simply swap them into the same frames (most of the time) on the walls where we have a photo gallery or a lone image in a strategic place..
This makes automatic room for new work and allows for some familiar favorites to rest out of sight for a year or two before making a welcomed encore.
Dec 30, 2012 18:02:10 #
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IBE wrote:
I guess that I am a little more critical than JR1
LOL had to laugh at this even though I know where JR was coming from. He left himself wide open to that didn't he.
On the other side of the coin - I remember reading an article a few years back by one of the worlds top landscape photogs where he said that if he got 10 a year he was very happy. I can't remember who it was though.
I suppose it depends if you mean - "better than the others you have taken", or "as good as the others you have taken".
Or "world class" vs "saleable".
Dec 30, 2012 18:07:47 #
As I shoot RAW most of the time I save all the keepers on external hard drive & DVD, the images I put on my website I keep as TIFF files once processed,again on hard drive & DVD, images from motorsport I shoot in jpeg as I often take aroung 800-1000images each event, too many to sort out in RAW, the only images I print are wedding pics and ones for clients, different to the film days, I still have 1200+ slides to sort through,I'll get round to it one day. :?
Dec 30, 2012 19:25:55 #
IBE wrote:
Over the last couple of years I have taken and printed about 40 photos of which I can be proud of. Of those I have 15 hanging on my walls. I usually print everything 11x14. What do you all do with your best photos that don't make the wall?
I like both scrapbooking and telling stories. So I use the photos from our trips, grandkids' birthdays, horse riding competitions, events like camera club outings, the local fall exhibition, etc., to tell the stories: In an album, with appropriate journaling.
EstherP
Dec 31, 2012 05:29:06 #
im with Tramsey on this one only i got a bigger bin from Apple for my Mac !!!!!!
Dec 31, 2012 05:56:42 #
billypip wrote:
im with Tramsey on this one only i got a bigger bin from Apple for my Mac !!!!!!
Photography is such a great place for us Hoarders!!! Well, maybe we are not hoarders but don't you sometimes find it extremely hard to delete some pictures in the future hope of software or personal skills could make a better print? Much less printed pics we keep!
Dec 31, 2012 06:14:49 #
What i do find very hard is to decide which pics to delete, once chosen, its a doddle lol.
deej wrote:
Photography is such a great place for us Hoarders!!! Well, maybe we are not hoarders but don't you sometimes find it extremely hard to delete some pictures in the future hope of software or personal skills could make a better print? Much less printed pics we keep!
billypip wrote:
im with Tramsey on this one only i got a bigger bin from Apple for my Mac !!!!!!
Photography is such a great place for us Hoarders!!! Well, maybe we are not hoarders but don't you sometimes find it extremely hard to delete some pictures in the future hope of software or personal skills could make a better print? Much less printed pics we keep!
Dec 31, 2012 06:45:50 #
after some thought deej.. you have a point. Last year i took a box of old pics from the attic, around 25yr old, the composition was mostly crap and the content mundane, snaps at best but after looking at them they did indeed evoke memories of my youth and family. Im so glad i didnt DELETE them way back then and neither will i ever !
Dec 31, 2012 07:12:26 #
billypip wrote:
after some thought deej.. you have a point. Last year i took a box of old pics from the attic, around 25yr old, the composition was mostly crap and the content mundane, snaps at best but after looking at them they did indeed evoke memories of my youth and family. Im so glad i didnt DELETE them way back then and neither will i ever !
I agree, there have been times I wish I had not rushed to hit the delete key. Sometimes, the memories a bad pic evoke can be so satisfying.
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