What do you do with your pics?

[Turn7]

Im guessing this has been asked many times before, but I was out with a good friend who knows Im a hobby tog and he asked....


Personally - I have a 3 pics on the wall and the rest go on Flickr that I share to a friend or forum or two.......

I get the enjoyment of creating the image, but htne dont really do much with it ?

[Simpo Two]

There's more to photography than what ends up on the wall. 'Wallart' IMHO is one of the hardest things - to take a photo that you are happy to see day after day, for years, and never tire of.

I deem only one of my photos wall-worthy. It's over my mantelpiece now. The other 99.99% are for record. And that is actually more valuable. They're not masterpieces, or wall-worthy, not all correctly exposed or with the correct WB. But they are photos of me doing stuff, or going places, or being with people, and they go back nearly 40 years in print and pixels. It's the story of my life, and I can look back at them and think 'If it wasn't for those photos I'd never have remembered that'.

[GetCarter]

As you probably know, I'm documenting life in the NW Highlands - a photo equivalent of reportage. Pics go on the local website (which I run) and my own website. A photo a day also goes on Twitter (which just mirrors my website).

I also make and sell books, postcards, DVDs and prints in local retail outlets and online.

Oh, and there's TransporTed of course

[Dave.]

All the race events and track day pics go on flickr (eventually!)

Those and everything else goes on the TV/PC as a screensaver.

I have one panoramic that the other half had printed for me, which was taken with my phone (but it's more sentimental than anything).


ETA - not sure why I bother with flickr, as they barely get any views.

[checkmate91]

Do you tag/add a description to your flickr pics? I'm not a massive Flickr user but I do and some of my pics have dozens of views and requests to include in groups etc. I can only assume they are easier to search by keyword.

[singlecoil]

My wife and I shoot an occasional still life, and the ones we like we have printed onto 75 x 50 canvases by Photobox whenever they have a decent special offer on. Most of them we have paid around £37 for including postage. Because they are on canvas we don't need to frame them, just fix some picture wire to the integral frames and hang them up in our sitting room with a few in the bedroom.

[Dave.]

checkmate91 said:

Do you tag/add a description to your flickr pics? I'm not a massive Flickr user but I do and some of my pics have dozens of views and requests to include in groups etc. I can only assume they are easier to search by keyword.

Each event is in it's own album, & each pic is tagged with the location, event date, what the event is, & the camera model.

I guess I should tag them with the race numbers & make/model of each car, but that would take ages!

[jurbie]

Dave. said:

Each event is in it's own album, & each pic is tagged with the location, event date, what the event is, & the camera model.

I guess I should tag them with the race numbers & make/model of each car, but that would take ages!

If you use Photomechanic you can pretty much automate it with just the finer details needing to be added by hand but this is also pretty quick if you set up a code replacement. The software is a bit pricey so you might not be bothered if you're just doing it for fun but possibly worthwhile, just think of it as writing the details on the back of a print for posterity only much quicker.

As for the question, I usually identify which shots I want to keep in camera, download those for editing and forget about everything else. The lucky few will go to clients, social media etc but that's about it. I did go through a phase of printing 6x4 prints of the best shots as I do wonder how many JPEGS will be knocking about in 100 years but I've not done that for a while. Before backing up I do try and review everything and bin the bad ones mostly to save on memory but that's about it and I'm unlikely to do anything with them. Depends what I'm shooting as well, motorsport can be several thousand pics of which I might only use 200.

At a football match I might shoot a couple of hundred but keep no more than 40. I'm less sentimental about football as well and am unlikely to keep any not identified for download. It it fails a back of the camera review then generally it won't get a second chance.

Edited by jurbie on Saturday 18th August 22:50

[Craikeybaby]

Website/blog/social media mainly.

I also have a load of shared albums on Apple Photos that the family get to see and a few go on the wall.

[FunkyNige]

Simpo Two said:

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But they are photos of me doing stuff, or going places, or being with people, and they go back nearly 40 years in print and pixels. It's the story of my life, and I can look back at them and think 'If it wasn't for those photos I'd never have remembered that'.

This is why I keep my old photos, I print a book of the ones I want to keep each year.

[Eyersey1234]

I have a website that I put a lot of my photos on, none of the family go on there though, some go onto Facebook too.