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or portfolio online?

lots of arguments about quality of this lens or that sensor etc...
often it is remarked that one cannot evaluate an image online but only to see it in a print.

so who prints (or has a lab do it) and hangs their stuff on the wall and who presents online only or on a media device like an ipad?

for the record, i do both...online, on an ipad and have lab prints on my walls.
 
I've been trying to make at least one print per week just to get in the habit of editing and keeping up my PP and printing skills (all inkjet). I'm also thinking about keeping an album/portfolio on the iPad.

Joe, are you using a portfolio app or are you just using the built in Photo album on your iPad?
 
the built in on the ipad. i upload short/small albums so they are easy to live through for the people looking at them ;)
 
I get the 48mb jpg scans from NCPS when they develop my film and they sometimes print pretty well. Sometimes I get 70mb 8 bit tiff scans done. I print on a Epson Pro 4800. Mostly black and white. I really like quality prints matted and often framed. Jim
 
barnwulf said:
I get the 48mb jpg scans from NCPS when they develop my film and they sometimes print pretty well. Sometimes I get 70mb 8 bit tiff scans done. I print on a Epson Pro 4800. Mostly black and white. I really like quality prints matted and often framed. Jim
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that seems like very big scans...my little 6mp rd1 produces tiny tiffs in camparison.
 
I print at 360ppi and print mostly a 9X12 image or 10X15. When I was printing 16X20s or 20X24s from 6X7 chromes I was getting 125mb scans done. They worked well but were expensive. Jim
 
Epson recommends sizing images at 360ppi before printing. It takes a pretty big file for a 10X15 print. Jim
 
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printing vs web page

printing vs web page

A few months back, I started printing 8"X10" of my favorite stuff, and I was amazed to RE-learn how great a good print looks.

I have a commercial lab print my 3Mb to 7Mb files (jpg's saved at 300ppi) at 8X10 and I love the results, and IMO there is no comparison between the printed images and the images viewed on a monitor (96ppi ? ).

Now I save a "printable" copy of every favorite image I create, and I actually print about one per week or two weeks.

Footnote: I am a hobbyist, and lend my stuff to cafes to hang. It occurs to me that the question was directed to professionals . . . sorry if I stepped in it.
 
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My thoughts are that I need to print something each week as well. All digital printing now and mostly 13x19 and I rotate prints through about 10 frames I have through my house and business. Like the idea of i-Pad portfolio as well, might have to look into that.
 
I print some off my images and have them hanging at home, I've planned for a long time though to do a lot more and build a gallery off my images at home but have just never got round to it. I have a Canon iPF5100 at home, I do quite a lot off printing but the matting and framing just quite never get's done... Print's go into a home made portfolio case and sit there for quite a long time.

I also have an (unfinished) online gallery... The site that is there now was put up a few months ago just to test out some ideas and again... I've never got round to removing it and finishing the site.
 
I have my website, with over 1200 photos and many more I need to add, and I also have a large number of framed prints that I made myself (even cut my own mats!) on the walls
 
I have about 8 of my pictures hanging in my frame shop, no online gallery though.
The prints sell often enough to keep my hobby supported, but I really hang them to get people in the door. Everyone likes pictures of Half Dome and San Francisco, so it's pretty easy to get them to stop and look.
Now that I have a large format printer the prints actually sell printing for me, which is hugely profitable.

Bob
 
I have photographs hanging all over my house. I am trying to get 15 or 18 prints printed, matted and framed for a show at a local restaurant. A long time ago I figured out that I couldn't afford to pay someone to matte and frame prints for me. I have done a lot of it and don't mind doing 2 or 3 at a time. More than that becomes labor.

I used to sell in a gallery but now it's just a serious hobby for me. I don't work at getting shows but once in awhile it's nice get one. It keeps me going.

Landscapes were fairly easy to sell but I am not sure what I am shooting now has marketing potential. I really don't care, I just love doing it. Jim
 
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I have hundreds of B/W prints in portfolio boxes, many mounted and some loose, have also printed proofs and display prints for wedding clients, and also do digital printing, both straight color and B/W on standard paper and sometimes on watercolor textured paper, when I can afford the ink !!! I have a color photo of my son and his wife from there wedding hanging now plus a 4x4 Holga image printed on watercolor in digital sepia. I print my own...not from a lab. No longer do B/W wet printing but all is digital prints now.

The print isn't dead yet, IMO.
 
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back alley said:
<snip> so who prints (or has a lab do it) and hangs their stuff on the wall and who presents online only or on a media device like an ipad? <snip>
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I am one of those old farts who believe that a photograph is something tangible that you hold in your hand or hang on the wall. Now I do have a personal website with my photos as well. That is because we now live in a large world and not everyone has the opportunity to see my photos in person.

I have always printed myself as I like to be in control of everything from beginning to end.

We have a lot of art (a lot!) in our house but none of it is my photos. My wife is very supportive of my photo style but prefers other things for interior decoration. But my photos hang in other houses and in galleries. Any visitor to our home who wants to see my work gets handed box sets of 8x10 prints representing final edits of various projects.
 
I'm into prints, but I still have some stuff on flickr. I'm one of those that doesn't much value an online image. Shoot, all sorts of images look good on my Trinitron's back lit glowing pixels that don't come out on a print. Not sure why, and I have had a heck of a time getting good B&W prints from digitally captured files. Not sure why.

These days, you wonder about the value of images that AREN'T online, which is really odd. Edward Weston made a big reputation, and not that much money unfortunately, in an age where there was no online. His success was based on gallery showings of smallish contact prints and newspaper write ups. You wonder if that's possible today.
 
I rarely print, but want to speed that up as I love to hold a print in my hands. I plan on making an album of 4x6s of all the photos that I have made and enlarge and frame the ones that I really like.

BTW, nice thread Joe, I subscribed to it.
 
Since I bought a 3880 I regularly print my images and hang those I like best on the wall. Also give some to friends when they ask. No web images other than RFF and some other photo sites

barnwulf - didn't realise Epson recommends 360 DPI - I just printed an image from a D300 - used 240 dpi enlarged to 13x19 - looked damned fine to my eyes.
 
I have no "galleries" on line and none of my photography on the walls at home....
(to be clear, I have a flickr account and an online blog but I do not consider them "galleries")
 
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