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11/18/2011 05:16:49 AM · #1 |
How often do you print your images?
I seldom do it! Unless it is for someone else... And it's a shame. I wonder why I have so many cameras when my iPhone should suffice if I don't print (... half joking)
Anyway, I was curios mainly because I just printed a bunch for my wife who opens her own business (Yeah!!! Journey Education Centre ) and she wanted to hang something on the walls. We went to Ikea and she said the she would buy some of the pics for sale there. I felt a bit offended saying "What? I have some pics!!!" and got the the classical answer "Really? Where? Any prints I can see how they look like?" Later I took the shovel (mouse) and start digging deep in the hard drive and found out these, i dusted them (prepared them for printing) and they came out beautifully on 20X30 and will hang in her training centre after I frame them.
... and match the name of Journey Education
   
   
    
I know they are not perfect but look so much better on the paper, hihi.
Happy and wanted to share!
Thnx
Tibi
Message edited by author 2011-11-18 05:20:34.
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11/18/2011 05:56:20 AM · #2 |
I make a photo book every year with my best photos in it. It is great to have them in print and also great to compare the new book with the previous years to see if my photography has improved. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have:) I also have been making a photo book of all the photos of my daughter each year and I print 2 copies, one for the living room and one to be kept for my daughter to have when she is grown up though books will probably be a distant memory by the time she is 16.
Anyway great to get photos printed as otherwise they risk getting lost on a hard drive somewhere or even worse deleted in one of the inevitable formats.
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Great photos - I especially like the photo of the view of the Eiffel tower from below. Looks like you have done some good travels.
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11/18/2011 07:56:06 AM · #3 |
i buy the cheap a4 plastic frames from ikea £1.20 eac then get A4 prints from photobox fro £1.20 and have a photo wall of these frames that a change every few months, but been a bit slack of late haha
photobook is a project for this year :) |
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11/18/2011 08:10:36 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by paulsteven:
I make a photo book every year with my best photos in it. It is great to have them in print and also great to compare the new book with the previous years to see if my photography has improved. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have:) I also have been making a photo book of all the photos of my daughter each year and I print 2 copies, one for the living room and one to be kept for my daughter to have when she is grown up though books will probably be a distant memory by the time she is 16.
Anyway great to get photos printed as otherwise they risk getting lost on a hard drive somewhere or even worse deleted in one of the inevitable formats.
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Great photos - I especially like the photo of the view of the Eiffel tower from below. Looks like you have done some good travels. |
+1 i do this too.
what the point of having great photos if you cant show them off? |
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11/18/2011 08:16:17 AM · #5 |
| CEWE Photobooks are by far the best I have tried. Recommend the hard cover A4 variety - a very impressive finish for the price!! Probably more expensive options out there for something more professional but these are spot on for my requirements. |
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11/18/2011 02:02:25 PM · #6 |
I print most of the pictures which I "fully edit" at least in 4x5/4x6 format ... but that is probably less than one percent of the pictures I take.
I have a distrust of purely digital archiving for reasons already mentioned -- constant updating, hardware and software migration and so forth, and would like to have a hard copy somewhere for the most important pictures. As often as I hold up an archival CD, I just can't seem to make out the pictures on it ... :-(
I also prefer to print to photo paper through a commercial lab, for the cost, convenience, and known stability of silver halide prints; I don't even have an inkjet printer, though I have access to professional color laser and inkjet prints if necessary. |
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11/18/2011 02:13:15 PM · #7 |
| Rarely. Actually, not until last year, and only for exhibitions. Lessee, that's a total of 7. |
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11/18/2011 02:37:03 PM · #8 |
Rarely for me as well, but I have been thinking that I would like to have more prints made, and for that matter I did have a 24x36 metallic print made of my last FS entry. I love the annual photo book idea you guys have mentioned, I'll probably try that too.
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11/19/2011 08:02:14 AM · #9 |
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11/19/2011 09:31:48 AM · #10 |
What is "print" ? I have seen it on computer menus.
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11/19/2011 10:07:20 AM · #11 |
| What do you people, Tibi included in bold letters, have on your walls at home? Don't tell me thatn you have posters! |
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11/19/2011 10:35:51 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
What do you people, Tibi included in bold letters, have on your walls at home? Don't tell me thatn you have posters! |
I have three canvas prints, 1 framed poster and a bunch of 11x14 or smaller framed regular prints. But, for the most part, my walls are empty. I really should print more. |
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11/19/2011 02:18:16 PM · #13 |
| I printed one yesterday. It is 30x45" and was the first time that I have printed one for myself larger than 20x30". It came out incredibly well and I love it. |
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11/19/2011 03:59:16 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
What do you people, Tibi included in bold letters, have on your walls at home? Don't tell me thatn you have posters! |
No posters. Just windows, books, and various art works by Other People. |
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11/19/2011 04:51:19 PM · #15 |
I rarely get my shots printed because I like to edit and crop, and the cropping doesn't work well with commercial printing unless I go to some expense for custom printing. I also hardly ever print my own stuff. Printer ink is the most expensive substance known to man and I no sooner get my printer full of ink and family members descend on it for their own purposes.
The only photo I have on my walls is a fairly large, professional, family portrait - taken 25 years ago - almost the only photo in existence of all of us because my eldest daughter is phobic about having her photo taken and would rather ruin a perfectly good family get together than allow herself to be shot. Other pictures on my walls are family art - paintings by both of my now departed parents, drawings by both of my sons and one of my daughters, a digital art print by the other daughter, a painting by my husband's aunt, and nothing at all produced by me. The real estate on my walls is at a premium and I'd have to evict someone else's work to display my own.
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11/20/2011 06:58:29 AM · #16 |
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11/20/2011 11:09:08 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
What do you people, Tibi included in bold letters, have on your walls at home? Don't tell me thatn you have posters! |
... nothing
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11/20/2011 03:12:52 PM · #18 |
| The sad part is having lots of big prints from shows living in flat files and stuck in folios, and nothing on the walls. |
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11/20/2011 03:21:36 PM · #19 |
Fairly often. I've prolly run 3-4000 through my old HP3210, and have been pretty darn happy with its production of 8x10s. I get one out of every 40-50 that I just can't seem to get the way I want it. I got talked into an Epson printer about a year ago, and I hate it......but I still print a couple generally out of a week's worth of shooting.
I have a dozen or so large prints throughout my apartment, the biggest being 36"x66".....I learned a long time ago from shows to not enlarge and print anything I wouldn't hang on my own walls.
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