What's Going to Happen to Your Digital Photos?
Jan 22, 2019 22:43:45 #
Hey every body let's have some fun! You only live once. When you're dead your'e gone! Let the good times roll!!. SaME WITH MY PICS.!.
Jan 23, 2019 00:14:37 #
Bill_de wrote:
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Unless someone was doing 25 to life, .../...
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Unless someone was doing 25 to life, .../...
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WOW!!!
(Facebook report.... I showed your answer to my better half. She started laughing so hard I feared for her dinner!)
Jan 23, 2019 01:42:35 #
rb61
Loc: Maple Grove, MN
How does one find the most archival material/toner? What is the projected life of a well printed image, stored in a proper album?
Thanks
Thanks
Jan 23, 2019 02:28:17 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Can you hear the flushing sound?
Photographs for posterity rarely survive one generation.
Photographs for posterity rarely survive one generation.
Photos of family members generally have a good chance of surviving more than one generation. Assuming the are printed. Most people are interested in what their ancestors looked like.
All the other stuff - probably not.
Jan 23, 2019 05:27:09 #
I print what I think will have value; images of family. I generally don't bother with "one-more-sunset-picture" because to me, it's useless...I don't care.
I shoot a roll of film, develop and keep the negs in a binder by date/year and if there are good prints on the roll, I print them and keep them in albums or shoeboxes and/or send a copy to family. I print about 100 pictures or less a year. I don't want to waste my time with images that don't have much meaning.
My mom is 88 and not expected to live much longer so I visited not too long ago and took lots of pictures of us, those are and will be keepers. I also went through the trunk of pictures that she's had since I was a child and I took ones that were special to me.
When I'm gone I expect the same will happen with my pictures, my family will dig through the box, pick out what they like and dump the rest.
I shoot a roll of film, develop and keep the negs in a binder by date/year and if there are good prints on the roll, I print them and keep them in albums or shoeboxes and/or send a copy to family. I print about 100 pictures or less a year. I don't want to waste my time with images that don't have much meaning.
My mom is 88 and not expected to live much longer so I visited not too long ago and took lots of pictures of us, those are and will be keepers. I also went through the trunk of pictures that she's had since I was a child and I took ones that were special to me.
When I'm gone I expect the same will happen with my pictures, my family will dig through the box, pick out what they like and dump the rest.
Jan 23, 2019 08:03:02 #
I take my photos for me. Other than some family photos here and there that are really snapshots, I doubt that anyone will really give a damn.
I go to funeral visitations and often see hundreds of snapshots of the deceased. For mine, whenever it comes, I hope someone puts together a nice slideshow of my better photographs because that's very probably the last time anyone will see them. Maybe folks will think, “Old John was a half-way decent photographer--not great, but decent.” I just hope that someone doesn’t include all my crappy mistakes.
I go to funeral visitations and often see hundreds of snapshots of the deceased. For mine, whenever it comes, I hope someone puts together a nice slideshow of my better photographs because that's very probably the last time anyone will see them. Maybe folks will think, “Old John was a half-way decent photographer--not great, but decent.” I just hope that someone doesn’t include all my crappy mistakes.
Jan 23, 2019 11:02:59 #
Sadly, my cellphone snapshots and selfies that I distribute through whatsapp get better use and appreciation. My DSLR photos, much more carefully taken and organized, often have only myself as the audience. Most of them got archived to hard drives and eventually destroyed.
Jan 23, 2019 11:49:30 #
Larry Powell
Loc: Columbus OH
My initial thought about this is I would print family pictures. Those family members remaining may not give a whizz about the wonderful image of a bird at the bird feeder but when their grandfather passes would love to have that image of them together. The same collection should be backed up on the most current media and given to the trusted computer geek in the family. Better yet make several back ups to be given to several family members. I have a cousin that grabbed boxes of photos from my grandmother with promise to scan tham and provide copies. That was 18 years ago and no scans yet. Those interested in genealogy love to have images of their ancestors, where they lived, at a vocation, anything perserving the history.
A concern I have, with storage media technology in constant change, what media is best for the longest and reliable storage. Most computers today do not have DVD drives. Solid state drives will be another victim in due time. Prints consume a lot of space but might be the best choice for the most loved and important images.
A concern I have, with storage media technology in constant change, what media is best for the longest and reliable storage. Most computers today do not have DVD drives. Solid state drives will be another victim in due time. Prints consume a lot of space but might be the best choice for the most loved and important images.
Jan 23, 2019 12:33:37 #
Larry Powell wrote:
My initial thought about this is I would print fam... (show quote)
Just keep up with any major storage media changes.
Jan 23, 2019 14:36:01 #
Bill_de wrote:
Agreed.
Any pictures that I felt family or friends might want they already have. In the future I will still send anything they may really want.
Unless someone was doing 25 to life, who would want to bother going through 100,000 pictures?
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Any pictures that I felt family or friends might want they already have. In the future I will still send anything they may really want.
Unless someone was doing 25 to life, who would want to bother going through 100,000 pictures?
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I take maybe 400 unique photos a year; since my collection goes back to when I was 20, that would be more like a max of 3000 sorted images on several external disks {I make a new copy every month}. I'm sure my heirs can deal with that.
Jan 23, 2019 15:08:22 #
DWU2 wrote:
I got an email today from Popular Photography with... (show quote)
Export the better ones and build web pages; host them to a server but keep them on your computer as well.
Make books with the best ones.
The hard part is filtering down the a few hundred photos. No one will want to go through 100,000 (or more) photos.
If you post to Facebook or Instagram, export those photos to a separate location as well.
Jan 23, 2019 15:53:22 #
jcboy3 wrote:
Export the better ones and build web pages; host them to a server but keep them on your computer as well.
Make books with the best ones.
The hard part is filtering down the a few hundred photos. No one will want to go through 100,000 (or more) photos.
If you post to Facebook or Instagram, export those photos to a separate location as well.
Make books with the best ones.
The hard part is filtering down the a few hundred photos. No one will want to go through 100,000 (or more) photos.
If you post to Facebook or Instagram, export those photos to a separate location as well.
I think the OP meant after you've gone to that great photo lab in the sky.
(My website will go away also.)
Jan 23, 2019 16:15:32 #
Longshadow wrote:
I think the OP meant after you've gone to that great photo lab in the sky.
(My website will go away also.)
(My website will go away also.)
I meant how to position them so one of your relatives might want to take ownership of them.
Otherwise, dead is dead. Publish or move on.
Jan 23, 2019 16:20:15 #
jcboy3 wrote:
I meant how to position them so one of your relatives might want to take ownership of them.
Otherwise, dead is dead. Publish or move on.
Otherwise, dead is dead. Publish or move on.
Okay.
If my kids want them they can download them from Carbonite.
(My wife will give then the access credentials.)
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