Do You Print Your Photos
Apr 13, 2021 16:08:03 #
Norm11 wrote:
Good to know how you managed during the digital revolution.
You realize, of course, that any technology that quickly appears, can just as quickly be supplanted by the Next Big Thing.
However "atoms" (paper/ink) will always be around. Prints and books will outlast anything digital. When you go to a museum, what's on the walls? Paintings and drawings made hundreds of years ago.
You realize, of course, that any technology that quickly appears, can just as quickly be supplanted by the Next Big Thing.
However "atoms" (paper/ink) will always be around. Prints and books will outlast anything digital. When you go to a museum, what's on the walls? Paintings and drawings made hundreds of years ago.
Of course.
Like I said, I print the important few images. When someone wants prints, they are available. I just don't process and print every raw file.
In this life, people want digital files to share. I've made a good amount of pocket change turning peoples' photo albums, negatives, and slides into images for their online accounts. I've also made a number of "storytelling video retrospectives" of executives' careers, presented to them at retirement or certain sales milestones. These included interview footage, private and corporate photos, and scans or photos of memorabilia.
Apr 13, 2021 16:20:31 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you are not a pro selling prints what percent of your total keepers do you print?
I don't personally print any. Very, very occasionally, I have them printed by a local outfit, Full Circle Fine Art Services.
Apr 13, 2021 16:24:49 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you are not a pro selling prints what percent of your total keepers do you print?
a few
Apr 13, 2021 16:25:12 #
Drbobcameraguy wrote:
I print my photos. Usually 5x7and 8x10. Frame them in dollar store frames and change them on a whim. I may print 1 percent of my total photos taken if that. I have a lot of photos that I like but really don't print that many and using Precision Color for ink it is very affordable.
Apr 13, 2021 16:27:01 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you are not a pro selling prints what percent of your total keepers do you print?
2-3% I might print. Currently with a Canon PIXMA PRO-100 printer, 8x10 to 8x12 image on 11x14 sheet.
Apr 13, 2021 16:41:21 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you are not a pro selling prints what percent of your total keepers do you print?
On occasion if there is a need.
Apr 13, 2021 17:34:58 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
I guess Robert1 and and I are about the only one's that print most of our photographs. I think that if I only had one or two percent of my images that I considered worth printing, I'd be looking for another hobby. My images are only for my use and some for passing on to posterity. One poster stated that out of 3000 to 7000, he is lucky to find one that is worth printing. Imagine planting that many tomatoes and only finding one plant with tomatoes you'd care to eat.
Apr 13, 2021 17:41:01 #
RodeoMan wrote:
I guess Robert1 and and I are about the only one's that print most of our photographs. I think that if I only had one or two percent of my images that I considered worth printing, I'd be looking for another hobby. My images are only for my use and some for passing on to posterity. One poster stated that out of 3000 to 7000, he is lucky to find one that is worth printing. Imagine planting that many tomatoes and only finding one plant with tomatoes you'd care to eat.
I wondered about this too. A vacation for me is about 3000 to 4000 shots. If I came home with only one printable shot I would be so depressed I would give up vacations.
...Cam
Apr 13, 2021 17:52:00 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you are not a pro selling prints what percent of your total keepers do you print?
About 10%, photo contests, people wanting prints.
Apr 13, 2021 18:21:24 #
Apr 13, 2021 20:02:19 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
My digital frame is my favorite. There's now 10,000 images on the card. I never know what I'm going to see when I walk by. When I finish the edits, I add a few more from the landscape aspect into the LR collection for the frame. Every 100 or so additions, I re-export the entire collection and copy over to the frames SD card.
Best way!
Won't have 200 albums or 10 Xerox boxes of prints.
Apr 13, 2021 20:03:27 #
CamB wrote:
I wondered about this too. A vacation for me is about 3000 to 4000 shots. If I came home with only one printable shot I would be so depressed I would give up vacations.
...Cam
...Cam
So after you print, lets say 100 of them,
what do you do with them?
(He asked "how many do you print", not "how many are printable".)
Apr 13, 2021 20:56:16 #
Longshadow wrote:
So after you print, lets say 100 of them,
what do you do with them?
(He asked "how many do you print", not "how many are printable".)
what do you do with them?
(He asked "how many do you print", not "how many are printable".)
I probably print about eight. I might frame two, one for the house and one for the gallery. The unframed ones get tacked to the wall of my former darkroom (now my computer and printer room) or the wall of my studio (now a matting and framing area.) Eventually some of those get replaced by new ones from my next vacation.
Non printed shots have found a new use in this Covid time. The music director of a church we attend tells my wife what music they wished they had for their online Sunday service (two to three songs). My wife records two of them on the church organ when no one is around, (she is an organ master), then we pick a theme based on the sermon or the song and illustrate it with my photographs. Key wording in Lightroom has taken on a new meaning in my life as I try to find the right pictures each week. We have produced 77 of these in the last year.
Just in case anyone is interested we produce them on a Mac using Boinx Fotomagico 5, create MP4s and send them out using Mail Drop. It helps to have fast internet.
...Cam
Apr 13, 2021 21:03:22 #
Apr 13, 2021 22:20:52 #
Henlopen
Loc: Lewes, Delaware
Good to hear you have an iP8720, that's what I have also. Been very satisfied with the output and I expect it to last a long time also. Give a holler if you notice any of your prints starting to fade though. No problems so far on this end.
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