Image destination

[tomorrowstreasures]

Just curious. What do you all do with your images as a whole? Do you store them and forget about them, do you print them and view them on a regular basis? Do you enlarge them and have a huge gallery in your home of your work??
What does one do with all of these files????:confused::confused::confused:

Those of you with consistently wonderful images, what do you do????
(Michaelaw, DwayneOakes, MA, Marko, Kat, and so on ...[not wanting to leave any one out])

[Iguanasan]

Just curious. What do you all do with your images as a whole? Do you store them and forget about them, do you print them and view them on a regular basis? Do you enlarge them and have a huge gallery in your home of your work??
What does one do with all of these files????:confused::confused::confused:

Those of you with consistently wonderful images, what do you do????
(Michaelaw, DwayneOakes, MA, Marko, Kat, and so on ...[not wanting to leave any one out])

I hope that means I fall into the "and so on ..." category ;)

I was wondering what to do with the literally thousands of images I have on my laptop at home (other than back them up). I've come up with two solutions other than what I share here with this community.

1) When I started my new job last year I started a "Photo of the Week" posting. Each week I pick one of the photos I've taken and print it off in 8x10 format and post it on the outside of my cube for anyone who wants to take a peek. Haven't missed a week yet and I am now at 41 weeks. :fingerscr

2) Rather than collect "digital dust" I decide to break down and get a Flickr Pro account (It seems that's where everyone is) and started uploading there. I know people will steal them but I'm hoping I might sell a few too in order to fund my photography habit. :fingerscr

In either event I feel much better that I'm actually doing something with them now instead of just letting them take up disk space.

[tomorrowstreasures]

Igs, of course you are one of the 'so ons'!!! ;):)

some nice solutions there, Igs.

would love to hear form the rest of you too!

[harvey3]

in my harddrive "archive" and ready to be retrieve if I need it.
its a reference for me...

[JAS_Photo]

Imagekind.com is basically an extension of Flickr where artists and photographers can sell their work. I have not decided if it is a good thing or not but you can load your work on there and if someone that you know (or a complete stranger for that matter) is interested in your work it is an option. There is a choice of papers that your work is printed on so you can recommend a higher quality paper. I print up quite a bit of my stuff for myself or for others and I prefer to print on the Hahnemule. I guess at some point you have to consider your work 'Art' and treat it as such. But I am a 'hobby' photographer it is not my profession.

[Mad Aussie]

We have home server that does nightly and weekly backups so my photo folders are included in those. As the backups are duel it means I have several copies of my photos cluttering up my harddrives.

Last week I spent a lot of time going through many of the photos I have deleting much that are no longer up to scratch due me taking better shots at later dates. I also culled out a lot of photos that were fine but simply too similar to other photos.

Excluding event photography the rest of my better photos get printed in A4 so I have a pile of those. Some are in a portfolio I can hand to curious visitors and some are loose.

I'm getting some large frames made up so I can put up some of my better landscapes around the house in 20x30 inch.

The next plan will be to have a digital photo frame and load that up and keep it running 24/7. I've waited though because I wanted to get something with a half decent size/res. They are slowly getting there I think.

[kat]

I have two sets of cd's, one in a fire proof safe.

After burning photos, I only keep the handful that really mean anything to me on the computer. I have one folder for that..to date has maybe 50 photos in it.

Those are the photos that I enlarge, I have a look in my head on how I want this house to look like after we renovate and it should look sharp!

Most times I do 4x6 of all the half decent images to have at hands sight in case.

Although I will be switching up filing system that I find faulty.

[Marko]

Good thread topic!

I must confess.......

At this point in time, well over 99% of my personal shots sit on my hard drive waiting for me to process them.

It sucks and it's one of the biggest cons of going digital IMO.

[tomorrowstreasures]

:laugh::laugh::laugh: I completely forgot about this thread until I saw it again tonight!!!

So, we see a bit of printing, framing, tossing, hoarding. The full gamete. Hmmm. Maybe a few more contributors to the thread may offer some more ideas?