Is it Just Me... (Page 5): The only time others are interested in pictures you have taken is if they ore of them. That's life.

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

The only time others are interested in pictures you have taken is if they ore of them. That's life.

goldenyears Loc: Lake Osewgo

I live in a retirement facility with about 700 residents. I joined a photography club here and am learning a lot about photography from the members. We're very respectful of each other's work when suggesting how to improve photos. The club puts images from the club's monthly meeting on thumb drives which are shown on continuous slideshows in two restaurants on the campus. Some of us have our best ones framed to hang in a changing "art show" in the halls of our residences. If we want to know if our photographs are enjoyed and appreciated, we need only to watch and listen to residents as they look at the photos.

williejoha

I do not take pictures for others. It is my hobby that I enjoy tremendously and now and then someone ask for a copy which I am happy to supply. I don’t care what others think about my pictures, hence I do not post on this forum. I consider myself a very accomplished in my hobby, (not my opinion) but the opinion of people that are very discerning. I do enjoy the constructive and educational postings on this forum, all others, well…….
WJH

GrannyAnnie

Well, who knows why your recipients don't acknowledge your photos. I will tell you that the one you have included with your UHH ID tag is wonderful and was the smile for my day! 😊

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

Bigmike1 wrote:

The only time others are interested in pictures you have taken is if they ore of them. That's life.

Alas Mike. I think you're right. Buncha ingrates! Lol.

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

wdross wrote:

5 billion smartphone photos a day worldwide. Some ... (show quote)

More pictures are taken today every minute than were taken in all of the 19th century. Abundance of anything cheapens and devalues it.

When I was a kid my Dad would get out the slide projector once or twice a year and we would have a slide show complete with popcorn and cokes. It was a great time, a lot of fun and never dull. These days it takes an act of Congress to just get a whole family to sit down together, never mind look at a bunch of old family slides/photos.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

jerryc41 wrote:

When I was a kid, my uncle would invite the whole family over to watch the slide show of his vacation. No one was anxious to go. : )

Exact same thing when people here want to put their vacation pictures on a digital slide show.
Or 500 birds or whatever.
I pity the poor victims today as well.

josquin1 Loc: Massachusetts

Only shoot for myself. Might share with family but my son enjoys making fun of them although he perhaps might appreciate one.

charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA

Longshadow wrote:

I'll post images i I like /i on Facebook and my ... (show quote)

What he said. I do get pretty good responses from family. But the pictures are for me.

Every year we have a big family get together at thanksgiving. In 2020 we were unable to carry on the tradition. I put 3 decades of thanksgiving pictures I had taken. Not so many pictures from the first few years because they were film days and I didn’t take that many. But every year a family portrait so they all made it into the book. The pictures got more plentiful as years went by and much better. The family loved the book and many have purchased a copy. All branches of the family have several copies. One of the favorite things family does when they visit us is to look at the book.

Chuck

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

autofocus wrote:

Simple supply and demand! The more photos taken a... (show quote)

I do genealogy and have collected a good number of family photographs. I also collect images made by photographers from St Joseph, Missouri. At no time have I ever looked in an old family album and found a digital file nor have I ever gone into an antique or thrift store and found an envelope of SD cards labelled "family pictures". No what I have found has been paper prints; some going back to Civil War days. For work that we want to have, at least the opportunity, to live on beyond us, we need to print the image, identify the image, and do our best to keep the images in an environment that will not degrade them. Of course part of this is do best practices on the digital side, as well, to preserve the images. I can remember when the walls of most homes, at least of the income bracket of my relatives, were covered with family pictures. This is much less common these days.

goldenyears Loc: Lake Osewgo

A question... just because I'm genuinely curious and not at all trying to obliquely make any point about those who "shoot for themselves."

I'm not much of a joiner so I really get it that some people are not joiners. Maybe that's why some photographers in our retirement community do not participate in our photography club. We've never seen their work and we probably should because we could learn a great deal from seeing it. What could our photography club do to be more inviting to those photographers who just "shoot for themselves?"

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

goldenyears wrote:

A question... just because I'm genuinely curious a... (show quote)

NOT make a competition out of club membership...

It always seems like a skeet shooting club at some photography club meetings. If it's just informative and a sharing environment for encouragement and learning, it's worthwhile. If it's full of prima donnas and bully princes, count me out.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

bobbyjohn wrote:

To each his own. Some of us are of the opinion th... (show quote)

What about a grandkids section?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

RodeoMan wrote:

…For work that we want to have, at least the opportunity, to live on beyond us, we need to print the image, identify the image, and do our best to keep the images in an environment that will not degrade them…

And don’t just print them with the low bid printer, ink, and paper. Use archival materials to withstand aging.

Part of the reason we have photos dating back to Civil War times is that those prints are silver on good quality paper. A lot of cheap current printers use cheap ink that does not have lasting qualities.

Digital image files age, too. Maintenance is one of the things required to preserve both media.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

DirtFarmer wrote:

And don’t just print them with the low bid printer, ink, and paper. Use archival materials to withstand aging.

Part of the reason we have photos dating back to Civil War times is that those prints are silver on good quality paper. A lot of cheap current printers use cheap ink that does not have lasting qualities.

Digital image files age, too. Maintenance is one of the things required to preserve both media.

If you buy inkjet prints, ask for them to be made on archival materials and printed with PIGMENT inks. The best pigments will last many generations past us, if framed under glass or kept in dark storage.

OTOH, conventional silver halide-based chromogenic prints (where the silver is bleached out, leaving DYES), will fade in 20-40 years, if not sooner. (I know this from working in a lab that made tens of millions of them every year.)

The best inkjet prints made with DYE inks last about half as long as pigment prints, and two to five times longer than chromogenic prints.

Silver halide black-and-white prints with retained silver will last for at least a century if made on fiber and baryta-based papers and processed and stored to archival standards. The estimated life of silver halide black-and-white non-chromogenic prints made on silver halide RESIN COATED papers is 50 to 75 years. My RC prints made in the 1970s are starting to separate from their bases and have become pitted, despite proper fixing and washing in an archival wash tank.