How do you consume your photos?

[nitrogen28]

Hi,

I just recently gone analog with a Praktica SLR and right now I have the first film developed with prints. I really enjoy the result and hopefully I ll be able to scan them next week and post them here. Anyway.
I was wondering how your consumption habits are?
I started shooting one year ago with a DSLR and I did about 5000 pictures till now. I keep them stored on my hard drive and use it mostly as screensaver and showed them to my friends on my Laptop. I never made prints so I m quite confused how to deal with the recent pictures form my analog praktica. I just don t know how to deal with the analog stuff. Maybe you can give me some inspiration?
Do you develope it yourself? Do have prints of each photo you took? How do you use/store them? ...

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Try www.printfile.com They have archival storage materials for negatives.

 

[jmcd]

I make wet prints of images that look promising on the contact sheets. I then let these pile up over the course of weeks, then harvest the images that stand out to me the most. These I dry mount on mat board, to be viewed out of the box or framed and put on the wall.

Just started to scan prints this week.

 

[Sjixxxy]

I usually end up filing them away soon as they dry. If there is something I want to share immediatly, I'll scan it rigth away. Other wise, at some point, often months, or year later I'll digout random old rolls and hunt for things that are promising with fresh eyes. Pretty much anythign I do end up making a full resolution scan of, I also immediatly prepare a file for 4x6 prints and put it into a seperate folder. When that folder starts getting fat, I take them all in get them printed.

Its a slow process for reviewing my own work, but if I wanted instant gratification, I'd buy a digital camera. I like to let stuff age.

 

[petronius]

I develop each roll as soon as possible. I scan every negative that looks good. The negs are then stored in archival sheets. When there is time I go through old sheets and find sometimes good stuff that I overlooked the first time.
(I wish I had Winogrands discipline to store the exposed films over years before development.)

 

[FrankS]

The really good 4x6 colour prints can go into a "photo album" while the rejects and all the negs to into shoe boxes. That's what shoe boxes are for.

 

[Sparrow]

with some fava beans and a nice chianti

 

[sojournerphoto]

I like maing (inkjet these days) prints. Some go on the wall and some lie around the house or go into boxes. Some get given away.

It's just anice process to make something you can hold and look at, which I find far more fulfililng than the screen

Mike

 

[RayPA]

I develop each roll as soon as possible. I scan every negative that looks good. The negs are then stored in archival sheets. When there is time I go through old sheets and find sometimes good stuff that I overlooked the first time.

+1

I usually scan almost every frame unless they are absolutely unusable. Later, once I've gone through the images in PS, I'll delete the ones I don't want. I go out to inkjet for the ones I like or the ones I'd like to put in a POD book.

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[bmattock]

I store my digital photos on several hard drives, in triplicate, using scripts of my own design to keep them organized.

I process my own B&W film and scan the negatives. I store the scanned files just like my digital camera photos, and I have a negative holder looseleaf notebook to hold the negs.

I have my color print film processed, but not printed or scanned, at one-hour convenience stores like Walgreens. I then treat them just like B&W film, above.

I do not shoot slide film anymore, but when I did, save as above.

I don't bother much with prints unless I intend to hang them on my walls, which happens a couple times a year. If I get tired of looking at a print, I toss it in a box, no particular system of organization.

 

[marke]

I develop each roll as soon as possible. I scan every negative that looks good. The negs are then stored in archival sheets. When there is time I go through old sheets and find sometimes good stuff that I overlooked the first time.
(I wish I had Winogrands discipline to store the exposed films over years before development.)

I pretty much do as you do. A few months ago I started developing my own again. I've started B&W wet-printing again too, right now working on a project of local musicians. I'm so tired of inkjet printing, but I'll still use it for color film/digital.

BTW, I think Winogrand never developed half his films because he never had any extra time. He spent all his time shooting!

 

[mas]

Popcorn

Popcorn

I usually consume them with popcorn, sometimes some hot tea.

 

[nitrogen28]

Thanks for sharing your habits

 

[capitalK]

Currently I develop the negatives, usually 2 at a time. Once dry they get cut into strips of 5 and go into sleeves. Depending on what is on the film I either scan right away with a Nikon CoolScan 400ED or print contact sheets or just file them away until who knows when. On the sleeve I title the roll and write down film type, developer, dilution and time. The contact sheet gets three-hole-punched and placed along side the corresponding neg sheet.

The sleeves go into one of two PrintFile workboxes. One for B&W and one for the colour film and slides that gets processed at the lab. The B&W workbox is a 2.5" one and is getting close to being full. Pretty good considering I just started developing my own a few months ago.

 

[Ducky]

When I find one I like, film or digi, I print an 8x10 on the inkjet, pin it up for a while, then file it in an archival sheet holder in a loose-leaf. Those I don't print I file as described by others.
Some go into flickr or pbase but that is getting more infrequent.