What do you do with your photos?

What do you do with your photos?

  • Print them

    Votes: 230 58.1%

  • Store them on my hard drive

    Votes: 249 62.9%

  • Upload them to flickr or somewhere on the web

    Votes: 233 58.8%

  • Photos? I just love gear

    Votes: 15 3.8%

  • Put them on RFF gallery

    Votes: 39 9.8%

  • sell them

    Votes: 47 11.9%

  • Hang them at my gallery

    Votes: 48 12.1%
  • Total voters
    396
Darn near everything. Some have been published. A number get printed. Some of those prints are (finally) going on exhibit later in the year. But those are just the "good' ones...I never talk about the others. :)


- Barrett
 
I have a total of seven photos framed and hanging...one was my choice, the other six were requested by my wife...
The rest are in boxes, envelopes or whatever just to keep them from getting damaged...and then some are given to friends...
The ones of the kids (high school marching & jazz band) are given to the school yearbook class for use by them...and to some parents too...
The stuff taken for our church is handed over to them once shot (film) I see them along with everybody else...they use them for bulletins, promotions, internet site and other things...
Between the kids and church, on one Nikon F4 I have taken over 21,000 shots and the F5 is just over 4,000...
There are about 12 Seniors in Marching Band that will be graduating this year...so I will be putting a CD together of them from all 4 years to give them at their Band Banquet...(one of the seniors is mine)
 
I chose "hang them at my gallery". By which I mean "hang them at my living room wall".

I also give big, framed prints away to friends and relatives.

And the photos I shoot on the few assignments I do, get published.

Most just get stored on my hard drive.

And the ones I love or "mean" something to me, go on my _regular blog_ or on my _photo portfolio blog_.
 
I print contact sheets when I can, and scan the best, also when I can. Lately, I haven't had time to shoot, much less scan... hopefully this summer I'll be able to afford the scanner I've got my eye on. And complete preparations for my home darkroom, I've got about 300' of film to burn through.
 
When I first started seriously shooting, I printed up a lot of stuff. Showed it to friends. Sold a few pieces, but it was to a friend. Loved hanging it on the wall, but hated all the matting and framing business. Mostly I was just happy to get everything in focus and printed correctly. Now I spend far too much time fussing over whether this lens or another is truly sharper, and which camera is "better/more enjoyable/etc" to shoot w/ and don't even own a printer at this point in time! The prints/negs just get stuffed into a huge box after viewing them. As I have become more knowledgeable about equipment my photography has gone downhill, practically speaking. If I'm not putting prints up on a wall, what's the point? And getting a gallery show is no longer a priority, as I have seen countless excellent photographers and painters invest tons of money into framing and matting only to sell one or two prints, if that. It's more of an ego thing for most people. I should probably refocus, go to one simple camera, and put up some prints in cafes just for the heck of it.
 
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The best choice in the bunch was 'store them on the hard drive'. Most of photos end up there either from shooting digitally or scanning them in from film. The ones I really like get printed or after a while I compile them into a photo book. I sometimes make a print for a friend.
 
Ticked only "print" and "sell", though some of my photos are scattered across the Net, including some on RFF and many with stock agencies.
 
Some of the photos I shoot and print I scan and upload to my website...most end up in the vault.
 
Advocacy is a really good use. Taking and helping to disseminate pics to help a cause or organization that you support can be extremely rewarding. It can get you great pics, sometimes with access that's hard to get otherwise, and it gives a real incentive to take pictures. I've done rhis for various organizations, as disparate as a local arts group and the Tibetan Government in Exile.

Otherwise I shoot for publication in books, magazines, and of course www.rogerandfrances.com. Some of my favourite pictures end up on my walls; there are around 60 pics on the walls of my living-room, about two-thirds of them mine or by my wife Frances Schultz.

Cheers,

Roger
 
I also rotate about 35 or so 8 by 11.5's on my walls. I will usually take about a whole Sunday and print out about 20 or so. Then the old ones I give away. Since I get a lot of visitors ( I live in South Florida) I have an instant gallery. When friends or family stay with us, the price of admission is to uh and ah at my work.
 
kshapero said:
What do folks do with all the photos you take?
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First, I make some small prints and cull the stuff I don't like -- about 2/3 to 3/4 gets trashed. Then I enlarge and sell the stuff that's left in various places, I exhibit some, some get published (google "Charles S. Fallis" sometime), and I use others for my own teaching/illustration purposes.
 
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I have two walls of my home office/junk room covered with foam board. Shots I like I print 8X10 and pin them up. The rest stay in the computer if they even get that far.
I rotate what's on the walls and the pix I take down go in a file.
 
Very interesting thread !
when i had a DSLR, i used to offer portrait prints to my friends. Since i've a Leica, i didn't do any big prints to offer but i'm working on it :)
 
I print my best photos and hang on the wall . There isn't too much place for it at home.
So, some my photos serve as decoration of the office at work.
Sometimes, they can be used as gifts
 
About 60 prints representing 3 different series are framed and rotate in and out of shows at non commercial galleries and museums. Most of them appear on my personal website. Then there are boxes of several hundred original proofs that just sit.

We have a lot of original art in our home but the only ones that are mine are four very atypical prints from a short series I did about my wife and her horses. My wife does not appreciate documentary photography in my style and that's OK.

I used to have some of my work in my day office but found that people had difficulty reconciling the person they knew at work with the photos I made. So I took them down.

98% of what I shoot never goes beyond the negative on the light box because I don't think it has potential to be exhibit quality. I simply have no use for anything else.
 
I've only been photographing seriously for the last three years but this is what I'm currently doing. I cataloguing all my negatives. I will usually scan all my negatives at a low resolution for proofing, tooling around in photoshop and posting on the web. I usually end up deleting about 3/4 of those photos off the hard drive. The few that I like, I will rescan at 4000dpi, post-process in photoshop and print at 8x12. Usually just print 1 photo for every 36 exposure roll... sometimes two.

Most of these prints I give away to friends and family. I don't like hanging photographs for some reason - I much prefer to hold them in my hands. I keep my prints in archival boxes and occasionally just go through them. I recently had a few on exhibit at the local art gallery. I actually sold a print for the first time a few months ago and I sold three more prints since then. I I had no idea what I should ask for so I just sell them at what I figured it cost me to print and frame.
 
Mostly prints, I end up deleting the scans after I print.

Last time I was asked to "take pictures", I made a DVD slide show (for TV viewing) set to music. Went over well, too.
 
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