What do you do with your photos?

[hotchilidamo]

So, you've been out and taken some good shots. You've selected the best ones and maybe tweaked them a little, then you upload them to flickr, tag them and add descriptions where they sit for a long time gathering virtual dust along with the occaisional view and if you're lucky the odd comment or favourite. Is that it?

Now I suppose this comes down to your motivation for taking shots in the first place. Mine isn't to sell them, although that would be nice. I am motivated by learning and developing my skills and taking shots I'm proud of. I enjoy wondering down the beach at 7 in the morning looking for new shots so what I do with my photos is maybe not that important if the process of capturing them makes me happy. But, sometimes I wonder if I'm not wasting my time uploading them to flickr and leaving them there.

What do you do with your photos? Is there something I'm missing that I should be doing instead?

[BigFuzzy]

printing?

Trust me, nothing like getting a print of that awesome shot you took and actually holding it in your hands.

I take lots of photos for friends and give them as gifts when they're least expecting them.

But yeah, print them. Frame them. Change them every few months.

[Izzy]

I am selling prints on Etsy. $125 roughly for a 16x24

The first time you see one of your favorites on a 16x24 you will think it is awesome - I did

[Sloseph]

print them and put them upsomewhere

we have all ours printed to differnt sizes then have them stuck on our wall with blutac like so





sorry for the poor quality it was taken on my phone

[Superfitz]

Originally Posted by Sloseph

print them and put them upsomewhere

we have all ours printed to differnt sizes then have them stuck on our wall with blutac like so





sorry for the poor quality it was taken on my phone

I have nothing constructive to add. I just wanted to say that is kind of creepy.

[faeriegodess612]

Originally Posted by BigFuzzy

printing?

Trust me, nothing like getting a print of that awesome shot you took and actually holding it in your hands.

I take lots of photos for friends and give them as gifts when they're least expecting them.

But yeah, print them. Frame them. Change them every few months.

That's what I would suggest. I've been wanting to do the same thing for a long time,..just havent done it.

[Doug Pardee]

Originally Posted by hotchilidamo

what I do with my photos is maybe not that important if the process of capturing them makes me happy.

This.

I take them. After that, I file them. Maybe I'll go back and look at them later, maybe I won't.

I almost never print them, I almost never post them, I almost never share them. I usually don't post-process them, except when I'm playing with post-processing.

There's nothing wrong with taking pictures for the sake of taking pictures. It's like catch-and-release fishing. And it's a lot cheaper these days than back when you had to buy the film and pay for processing, then figure out what to do with the negatives and prints.

[BuddhaPi]

I mostly delete mine, cause they're not worth keeping...some people worry about how many shutter releases they can get before it dies, I worry about how many times I hit the delete button

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by BuddhaPi

I mostly delete mine, cause they're not worth keeping...some people worry about how many shutter releases they can get before it dies, I worry about how many times I hit the delete button

Same here.

[mad editor]

Some I keep digitally, others I print and either hang in my home or give as gifts. Others I sell. :-)