The Family Snaps

[charjohncarter]

I used to get everything printed, which 20-30 years on is great because some of the losers years ago are now masterpieces (not really). But with digital and Costco I can now send the files (finished, tweeked, framed, cropped, straightened, color adjusted, and sharpened) to my Costco and for 13 cents have a great looking 4x6. So, I do all the family prints quickly and send them off 9by mail) to the family and friends, and they write back saying they saw the picture on email from my wife. Still, I enjoy the process.

I have a good photo to post for this discussion, but I can't figure out how to copy and paste from Flickr anymore. If someone knows how let me know?

 

[John Bragg]

I also am printing more these days. Inkjet has come a long way and they look good to my eye. I agree with CharJohnCarter that Flickr has made it impossible to copy pics ove. I have the same issues with that !

 

[charjohncarter]

I also am printing more these days. Inkjet has come a long way and they look good to my eye. I agree with CharJohnCarter that Flickr has made it impossible to copy pics ove. I have the same issues with that !

And I thought it was me, at least I know I'm not crazy. I keep looking at your images on Flickr, but I haven't commented much lately. Too many medical things going on. But thankfully they are mostly in the past now. Good luck, John Bragg.

 

[_goodtimez]

Although I do use a digital Leica, a small Nikon coolpix or just my cell phone as a camera today I still keep using film for 2 reasons:

1) I love film cameras and I have a bunch of them because they are relatively cheap to buy as used.

2) I do more prints from film than digital and at least I keep my negatives or color slides very well sorted since I started using a camera in 1978 at age 15.

Just as you do Bill I stack up several boxes of prints and we as a familly regularly come back to watch them.
My kids are always nicely surprised to rediscover old prints I made from them.

 

[lynnb]

I realised I hadn't printed many of my early digital family snaps and organised a bulk order for each of my daughters. I think the prints cost 8c each from Snapfish.

Now I regularly print and add the mostly 4x6 and 5x7 pictures to our family photo wall using blu-tack, as well as to albums. Larger prints get framed, and we occasionally rotate the pictures through the frames as I print new ones. Wall space is the limiting factor.

 

[majid]

I'm a big fan of books as well, though the print quality is not as good as that of my prints

Not necessarily. AdoramaPix books are printed on photo paper (12"x30" and perfect-bound).
Another option that looks interesting, but I haven't tried yet: http://www.artisanstate.com/

However, my favorite album, a memento of a trip to Paris, is made from prints held by corner stickers. On the down side, twelve years later some of the corner stickers have come unglued and had to be replaced, and a couple of hastily washed prints have yellowed.

If your prints are a standard size, perhaps a better option would be an archival portfolio like Prat or Ito-Ya Profolio.

 

[_goodtimez]

I also had this idea which I will soon start in order to promote printing and photography in general:

I will appose a "Print of the week" on my desk at work. Since I'm travelling a lot I'm also taking pictures along the way.

 

[chris91387]

every year i make a photo book....Jan1-Dec31. well, at least for the last 10 years. i also make sure to dump all the pictures from every cell phone, iPad, p&s, etc. i started using Shutterfly but now i use SmileBooks. when i get the book done i "archive" that year and clean out the computer and start over with the new year. it's a lovely way to still have traditional family albums in this digital age.