What do you do with all your photographs?

Question

What do you do with all your photographs now more aless everything has turned digital?
back when one-use disposable cameras were all the range you had to print your pictures in order to see them. These days you put them on the computer to view them and put them on internet blogging sites such as flickr, instagram, facebook etc.
Do you even bother to print them? put them in an album? or do you just store them on a memory device or cd? prehaps make a scrapbook?

the reason i am asking is because i have just order a scrapbook for me and my boyfriend to complete together :) and i realised that although we have hundreds or photos together, not one was printed out in order for us to stick it in our book! :0
we have since printed 50 of the cutest ones :D which are all in an photo wallet until our book arrives :)

please let me know what you do with them so you an give me some creative ideas for the rest of my photos that are stored on memory devices after memory devices!! :L :) xxx

Answer 1

Even back in the film days, I did not print every photo. I would process the film and look at the negatives to see which shots I wanted to print.



As to the digital photos, I store them on several hard drives and on archival CDs. Then, I print the ones I like to be put into different portfolios or framed. The ones that are framed are kept in storage bins so that they can be rotated and displayed. For instance, I'll put away the "spring" landscape images when summer is over and put up the fall and winter themed shots.



As far as "social networking" goes, I had a couple of images stolen and used without my permission, so I haven't put up anything there in years. Since I deal with clients face to face, I just take the appropriate print portfolios with me for meetings.

Answer 2

I print the better ones and put them in albums. I take a lot of snaps, so I usually have one or two photo albums every year, and even more when the grandkids were smaller. I have the bulk of my photos backed up on CD/DVD and an external hard drive. I also make photo-books from on-line companies like Blurb or MyPublisher. I keep telling myself that I will make photo-books only and stop doing the albums, but so far I still do both.



I also post some on FB and Flickr to share with friends far and near. I do not back up any on-line except in low resolutions of 700 pixels on the long side. My internet connection is too slow to upload those big files.



The thing about making some prints is this: In 50 years, people may not be able to read a CD or a thumb drive, but they will be able to sit down and turn the pages in the album and see the pictures. This electronic age requires diligence to keep everything accessible, and there are pitfalls other than fire and flood, which used to be what people worried about. One thing I have done is to pass along my very best prints to family and friends as well. That way there will be some prints spread out in case something did happen. My son-in-law's family home burned down years ago and they lost almost every childhood photo except for the very few that others had. Pictures are priceless memories to many people, including me.

Answer 3

I dont do albums but I've ordered some portraits of my daughter in gallery matt format recently (11X14 black border with a 8X10 image in the center). There's a few more images I'd like to print out to put up on the walls but albums of 4X6 prints are a thing of the past. We have smart phones and tablets to view our images with ... I do plan on making an album of pictures of my daughter but this would be a proper album like a layflat book in 8X12 or similar.

Answer 4

I like big prints, 16x20/16x24 size is what I like. Still use film, still have negs. Things get stored and catalogued. Don't really care for 4x6 prints.