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
Ive printed and framed a couple over time; none that I have myself. Ive had a couple published in magazines (ones of no real consequence) and displyed in stores. But most of all they just stay in the computer and all exist in a single Lightroom catalogue that I can scroll through and look at.

To me I find that photography is just something I enjoy doing, especially with the access to travelling that I get. I really enjoy my gear and I fuss terribly over scanning and post production of images. But in the end, the greatest joy I get is the extent to which scrolling back through all my photos takes me back to these past times and places so vividly.

It really is as much a documentary of your own life as much as it documents what you photograph...
 
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Now that I am digital as well as analogue when I still use film and have some shots I like, I will scan them and if I really like them print them up for my hard copy portfolio. I have a quite good printer that handles up to A4 so its kind of nice to turn my better shots into something a bit bigger than the 6 by 4 inch pocket prints. For the rest I just keep them on my PC (or more correctly on a dedicated disk attached to my PC so I do not use up all of the inbuilt disk space) and when I get bored I pull them out and Photoshop them just to practice my PS skills and to see what I can make of them One of the ladies whom I work with is a keen photographer who puts all of her stuff on Flickr. I am not so organized but I must do it sometime.
 
I shoot, develop, scan, contact sheet, staple contact sheet to neg carrying sheet, store in folder.

Wait a while, go back over the 5x7 contact scans, choose the ones I like, mount the negs in slide mounts, scan for print, stick those in Lightroom.

Wait a while more, show them to select people (here maybe, friends) then whittle the Lightroom collection down to the ones everyone agrees are good.

Wait a longer while more (I'm at this point now) and figure out how to exhibit the best of the best of my stuff without having to spend a fortune.

The saga continues.
 
Every so often I give a slide show to the local chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society, plus I do enter their photo contest every year.

Some of the winners end up printed and hanging on my walls. So far, the good stuff does not get posted on the Internet.
 
I develop the negatives, pick my favorites, then project them onto stainless steel plates and engrave them. I bury the plates in my underground fallout shelter and wait for future inhabitants of earth to find them.
 
I shoot professionally, commercial advertising and editorial. And very well known if the bodybuilding, health and fitness business. So if you pick up any of the magazines of that type you will be seeing ads I shot or features with my photos.

As well I also do a fair amount of mainstream work and putting together more of my personal projects.
 

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I shoot professionally, commercial advertising and editorial. And very well known if the bodybuilding, health and fitness business. So if you pick up any of the magazines of that type you will be seeing ads I shot or features with my photos.

As well I also do a fair amount of mainstream work and putting together more of my personal projects.
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That guy looks like he needs to chill.
 
As usual with RFF polls, none of the answers fit. Right now I'm working on a ProShow project using images from c1995. Some are posted on the Web for fun, some go to historical societies.
 
Since my camera budget leaves no money for food, I usually spread some peanut butter and jelly on them for lunch.
 
Every six months I print the 50 pictures I liked best from that time, and I put them in acetate sleeves. Although I think I'm going to quit that and just make myself a nice Lulu or Blurb book once a year, like a bound photo album.

I've also got two small local shows coming up in the next year, one just hanging stuff in a coffee shop, the other at a gallery. I've never shown art before, so I'm pretty nervous/excited.
 
I print them and think what garbage then file them in boxes. Six months later I look at them again and realise I am a genuis and shoot some more.:D
 
I have one photo book from apple and would like more. Not gonna use apple again though. Store on computer for two years then burn to dvd. Give some to my children. Have a few hanging on my walls maybe 5. Had a friend once wanted one so I gave it to her. Post on flickr. Thats abut it. not good enough for magazines and the like. would be nice to be but I will continue to shoot anyway.
 
I generally put mine on Flickr but most of all print them, to me the best result and show case for a photo is a decent print done by hand, from a negative I processed -- basically having been involved right from the start.

i also make gifts too, so sometimes I create cards with my photos like I am for Christmas, bought some white card which I shall fold and then with some double sided sticky tape, attach one of my prints (each one done lovingly, gnggg! :) by hand) to them etc. etc.

Vicky
 
Well, let's see . . . I have about 25,000 35mm and medium format transparencies in filing cabinets and I don't know how many negs and about 40 DVDs worth of digital files. I sell stock and used to write and photograph for magazines you've never heard of. I did some weddings (ugh!) and some commercial assignments and some gallery shows.

I don't think I've nailed it yet. I really don't know what to do with them. My daughter will inherit them. It'll be her problem!
 
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