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02/17/2004 04:30:07 PM · #1 |
Most of us here have thousands upon thousands of photos stored in pc's cd's and paper.What are you you going to do with them? Keep them ,for who? Who is going to watch them? Do they have any value?
Just curious !
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02/17/2004 04:38:49 PM · #2 |
Coffee Table book; Best of...
Or, we could all throw in what we consider to be the one best and publish the first annual best of DPC. Hmmmmm
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02/17/2004 04:40:32 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by dsray:
Coffee Table book; Best of...
Or, we could all throw in what we consider to be the one best and publish the first annual best of DPC. Hmmmmm |
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BRILLIANT! But I think each MEMBER (another perk) should have their own page. This way, if they like one of their shots, it can take up a whole page, but if they have maybe 5 or 6, they can have a few smaller ones on a page.
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02/17/2004 06:06:20 PM · #4 |
Mostly I try to cull them on a regular basis, so that I have 10s rather than 1000s from each year. Its a painful and somewhat cathartic process that I find quite educational.
The ones I delete probably have more educational value than the ones I keep - so they all have a lot of value if you use them for something.
Message edited by author 2004-02-17 18:06:58.
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02/17/2004 06:08:00 PM · #5 |
Send them to the moon its getting to cluttered down here!!On the other hand Kosta lots of yours are worth keeping!
Message edited by author 2004-02-17 18:10:02. |
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02/17/2004 06:10:20 PM · #6 |
| No real value for me. I'll just dig up old CDs after a couple of years, look at the pictures, and say, "Wow, I really sucked back then." At least, that's the hope. |
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02/17/2004 06:49:47 PM · #7 |
I have them mostly archived on CD's and DVD's. I am in process of
(a) making prints from the best ones and either framing or "scrapbooking" - mostly archiving in acid-free albums.
(b) making DVD slideshows
I don't delete anything... well, unless I know it really is terrible, and that I will never use it.
On top of that, me dad has been sending my scanned images from when I was growing up, and on top of that, I am trying to scan and restore my husband's family's old photos.
So many projects, so little time :P
Message edited by author 2004-02-17 18:50:32.
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02/17/2004 07:00:32 PM · #8 |
I don't delete images, I always archive them as soon as I shoot (though I have to rename them all first to keep the numbers unique). Then I can delete the ones I don't like or am not using off of my hard drive. I can always go back to the archive.
But my "real set" stays on my hard drive and is repeatedly backed up onto DVDs. Getting harder, as I have more than 5 GB of them now.
By the way, if you're like me and you have hundreds of CDs and DVDs with archived data on them, you owe it to yourself to go try out "whereisit", which is a fantastic cataloging program. (Took me many tries and a couple of other "purchases" to find such a good one, but I've been using this one for 3 or 4 years. It's Shareware, so try it!. Disclaimer: No affiliation with the company, just a customer.
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02/17/2004 07:23:35 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Dyslexic:
No real value for me. I'll just dig up old CDs after a couple of years, look at the pictures, and say, "Wow, I really sucked back then." At least, that's the hope. |
That sounds like something of considerable value to me!
I've had too many things which I found a use for much later to want to throw any of these out. At 1-2 cents/frame to archive even I can afford to be a pack-rat about this. Of course, finding the photo I need is quite another matter .... |
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02/17/2004 07:25:04 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
By the way, if you're like me and you have hundreds of CDs and DVDs with archived data on them, you owe it to yourself to go try out "whereisit", which is a fantastic cataloging program. (Took me many tries and a couple of other "purchases" to find such a good one, but I've been using this one for 3 or 4 years. It's Shareware, so try it!. Disclaimer: No affiliation with the company, just a customer. |
I'll check it out. For Mac users, there's a program called CD Finder which does the same thing. |
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02/17/2004 07:55:26 PM · #11 |
My website actually started as an offline scrapbook of my pictures and some ramblings that I sent to my parents on a regular basis. I first put it online for convenience. Soon thereafter someone stumbled upon it and so on and before I knew it, I had an "audience".
What is not sold or given away or used on my site is archived to what I consider to be fairly useless CDs. My site is the "scrapbook" and is kept fairly religiously up to date on DVD and CD. It is the photographs in that format that I consider sacred cows in terms of keeping for posterity, as it were. Additionally, offline but set up in the site format, are my sold photographs and family and personal "snapshots".
Catherine
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02/17/2004 11:47:16 PM · #12 |
Personaly, I think every photo I take has some time of value to it... Yet, my value is not always the same as the value you may have apon it.
Although... If you do have a large collection of photos, and you want them to do something other than collect dust. Let artists look at them.. The artist may get insperation, from them. As an artist myself I am a picure hound.. I love collection pictures that not only myself but others take. You can see different styles of photoes and also so many other things that I just can not see where I am.
Its always nice for a person to get a little bit of someone elses life. even if it is just through a lens of a camera
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02/17/2004 11:51:05 PM · #13 |
I think a best of DPC book would be pretty neat actually. Of course you would get about ten thousand suggestions on how to do it to make sure it was "fair." But really, it would be rather neat to see something like that. By the way, has anyone ever seen DPC mentioned in any photography magazines or anything like that?
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02/17/2004 11:51:17 PM · #14 |
Making stacks and stacks of CD's and buying CD racks.
After my death when I'm discovered my family will be rich, rich, rich!!! |
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02/20/2004 12:51:00 PM · #15 |
| i love the book idea! no sure the site needs more publicity right now, considering the # of submissions appears to be getting crazy! |
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02/20/2004 01:02:26 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I think a best of DPC book would be pretty neat actually. Of course you would get about ten thousand suggestions on how to do it to make sure it was "fair." But really, it would be rather neat to see something like that. By the way, has anyone ever seen DPC mentioned in any photography magazines or anything like that? |
A few people have mentioned seeing DPChallenge mentioned in magazines, etc.
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02/20/2004 01:10:28 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by littlegett:
Personaly, I think every photo I take has some time of value to it... |
If anything, you can use the bad photos to make a fire! 
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02/20/2004 01:21:02 PM · #18 |
I publish 1 out of 100 in my portfolio (here at DPC and photosig).
I print approx 25% (going through all the pictures since 2002 now to get that done). The rest was/is for learning and is only kept on CD.
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