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May 31, 2018 11:10:32   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Get an electronic frame. I have one my kitchen counter running 24x7 with almost 8000-images going back to the 80s where I scanned the old negatives. I use a LR collection and add landscape-oriented images at the end of editing new work into the "frame collection". Periodically, I pull the SD card out of the frame and add new images from the frame collection and pop the SD card back into the frame. The images display in date order and I've edited the EXIF data for the scans so the digital files report dates from the 80s and 90s before I changed to digital. I've used a ViewSonic frame now for a few years after an older Phillips model died.

When walking by or in the kitchen, you never know what / where / when is currently being displayed. Many times, images are being displayed from events and locations I've nearly forgotten about until seeing the images again.

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May 31, 2018 11:16:36   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
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.
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I usually don't shoot a TON of images when I travel. For example I only shot 4 rolls from my week-long California trip earlier this month. I usually pick out the best dozen and make prints for relatives, put a few up on my cork board at work and put a few in the shoe box for when I want to relive memories later on in life.

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May 31, 2018 12:15:37   #
speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho
 
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.
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I print my photos, if I consider them worthy, if not I trash them!

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May 31, 2018 13:28:24   #
blue-ultra Loc: New Hampshire
 
bsprague wrote:
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 14:09:07   #
FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County
 
My kids/grands say my computer is where pictures go to die. Some have never seen their first birthday parties. 😈😈😈

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May 31, 2018 14:32:00   #
worldcycle Loc: Stateline, Nevada
 
I handle this in several ways as I too travel extensively and shoot a lot of images. I always cull them down to the best of the best for starters. A recent trip to Cuba was over 1000 images culled down to about 80 that tell the story. I then took them down to only about 16 or so that really stood out. This smaller number makes them for a more interesting (and cheaper) photo book. I will salt in a few of the other photos to fluff out a page. Better a few great shots than boring people by overwhelming them with too many. A really interesting thing I have done is put all of my 'best of the best" ( a couple of thousand) from my lifetime of travels and loaded them onto a dedicated desktop computer. I then bought a 42" 4K Television and mounted it flat on the wall and ran an HDMI cable to it. I now just let them run on random shuffle for about 45 seconds each. Always a new memory is being displayed whenever I look its way. Long enough to admire, yet not so long it becomes boring. Since I edit every night when travel I will post one or two on Facebook whenever I have access to free WiFi somewhere. (I carry a small 12 inch lap to and external hard drive to back everything up on nightly) I gave up on the photo viewing frames (for example NIX) for their random shuffle algorithm is not random enough and they end up showing the same 20 photos repeatedly.

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May 31, 2018 15:14:12   #
G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK
 
When we went to Egypt and Switzerland Photography was a new hobby so took maybe close on 800 images on each trip. My good wife printed them all (including the bad ones) and bound them using clip ring binders. They then were shown to our kids and forever languished on the bookshelf.
Now I delete all but the best and she happily puts them on facebook.

once seen easily forgotten!

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May 31, 2018 15:24:07   #
srt101fan
 
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.
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Use software like ProShow Gold to make slide shows to put on your computer, TV or YouTube. Add text, other graphics like simple maps, scanned memorabilia, etc. Add music. The software allows you to include a large variety of transitions, zooms, pans and other effects. The so-called "Ken Burns effect" is a good one to try.

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May 31, 2018 15:31:04   #
rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA
 
I select the best, print them out and place them into a photo album.

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Jun 1, 2018 05:07:57   #
dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida
 
Convert them to slides, use your Kodak Carousel projector, turn off the AC [few had AC in the early 50s] and invite your friends over for a good fall asleep before the 100 slides were finished .... Alas, those were the days !!

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Jun 1, 2018 05:38:17   #
LEO74 Loc: Bronx, New York
 
Photo books, calendars as small gifts, wallpaper for my computer. Ones I really like, print and hang.

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Jun 1, 2018 05:57:17   #
LarryFitz Loc: Beacon NY
 
Shutterfly let's you make websites for viewing. They can be setup so anyone can view or can be restricted to an invitee list. You can add sections easily. For my trip to Alaska, I divided them up: Fairbanks, Denali, Sewart, glaciers, anchorage. Plus a best. Friends and family can view or not, but my wife knows where to find them.

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Jun 1, 2018 05:58:50   #
foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC
 
Let's face it. Most of those shots may be viewed once and then put in a box in a closet where they will stay for the rest of your life. LOL

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Jun 1, 2018 06:08:25   #
elliott937 Loc: St. Louis
 
We have yet to travel to as many places and you have, but we do travel once a year, typically out of the country. On return, I'll pick one image and have a wrapped canvas made from it. The Spanish Steps in Rome now resides on a hallway wall, and the wrapped canvas is 6' wide and 4' tall. We pass it every day, and enjoy the memories every day. We've even begun to create names for the people standing on the steps. Michelangelo's David reside over the door to my den, a modest 2' wide, 3' tall wrapped canvas. Neptune's Fountain in Florence resides over our bed, and it is another 6' wide, 4' tall wrapped canvas. On the wall going up the stairs from the second to third floor are regular prints made here, on "frameless glass frames". There are 12 frames 8.5x11", each from a different summer vacation. What happens when I run out of walls? I have no idea, but I'll cross that 'wrapped canvas' when I get there.

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Jun 1, 2018 06:10:39   #
duane klipping Loc: Bristow iowa
 
I post mine online but I am working to make the a paying venture. I can say all my gear is paid for now by doing this. You said you take 3 to 150 photos? I can't imagine going to those places and only coming back with 3. I went to Badlands and pan handle of Nebraska and came back with 3000.

As far as your memory being better maybe so but you can't share pictures in your head, visually to others.

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