Whats on your wall?

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After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?...After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?. Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done? Is your computer filled with thousands of images that will never see the light of day and do you periodically clean out your image folders.

What determines what you will print.
 
I have about 20 prints on my walls. Every so often one gets replaced with something newer/better/more interesting.
 
I have a few of my own photos framed and hung. I keep meaning to refresh them with new pieces but time and money keep getting in the way.
 
I print a lot - 4x6 for photo scrapbooks and 8 1/2 by 11’s for refrierator displays updated often. I don’t take time to delete any files except those that are clearly not usable. I rate (in Lightroom) all photos that I print and export them as jpegs with dated, rated, and descriptive file names that can be searched outside of Lightroom.

Some relatives have made large prints of my photos and have them hanging in their homes. I have not (except for some push pin prints in my den) because I shoot too much and rotate my prints too often.
 
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After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?...After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?. Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done? Is your computer filled with thousands of images that will never see the light of day and do you periodically clean out your image folders.

What determines what you will print.
After a day of shooting I import to my PC. I delete the obvious rubbish in a first-pass prior to processing. Typically only around 10% of the remainder are deemed worthy of careful processing and export to some other format for display, so yes, my hard-drives are full of 'wasted' bytes. Those that are deemed worthy of export find their way to dpreview or facebook typically. When viewing at home I either do that on my PC or on my TV.

I usually don't erase files from my card straight away - that's actually 'saved' me on a couple occasions when catastrophic things have happened to my computer between backups. If I know I'm going to shoot a lot of images or am likely to run out of space during a session then I'll reformat the cards beforehand.

I don't hang prints. The only time I've printed in the last 10 years have been photo books here and there to document 'special' family events.
 
I have 40 or 50 photos printed and on the wall or on desks or shelves around the house. I have.a couple at work and have given some away.

I also purchase a digital photo frame for my mother that I can send photos to remotely. Many get posted on Facebook for friends and family to see. I have created a few photo books for my wife and son. And, of course, my iPhone has a few dozen photos on it.

I have a backup system in place that keeps the photos on two external hard drives at home, one external hard drive at the office, and on Amazon photos in the cloud. I also do a nightly clone of my Mac's main drive. Everything is automated except the upload to Amazon photo. I use Lightroom to manage the photos. My library is a little over 44,000 photos.
 
How could I forget using photos as my Desktop wallpaper and the occasional posting here:



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I have thousands and thousands of photos on portable hard drive and the most recent on the computer. I keep having to buy more portable hard drives to store all my pics. I try to have 2 copies of each pic as backup so that doubles the space needed.

I have made calendars with my pictures for myself and for relatives. I change my pictures on my computer, iPad, laptop (desktop and lock screen) every 2 or 3 days to enjoy my pictures that way. I made some picture mugs last Christmas for people and that seem to have gone well.

Once in a while I go through a folder to delete some pictures. I find that if I wait a while, I am more detached from my pictures and more able to delete the mediocre ones, but still, it is hard for me to do.

I also post my pictures on 500px, flickr and viewbug, which is good in some way because it forces me to select the best ones and process them.
 
After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?...
I do. I have a 16x20 landscape shot with a 12MP Canon S100 P&S, looks great. This is the print that tells me I don’t need more MP. And have several prints of photos I liked that I took over the years. I also print family photos, 4x6 and 8x10 and keep them around the house, and give them to our families.
After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?. Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done?
I only format the card in camera, bedore starting a shoot not after transfer to computer.
Is your computer filled with thousands of images that will never see the light of day and do you periodically clean out your image folders.
Every month I have a folder, and during the month I constantly select, delete and edit raw’s after the month end I export what’s left selected and edited. I keep the raw’s and exported jpegs as separate libraries. I delete A LOT, usually I keep from 80-200 shots a month. Even from vacations and photo trips, I don’t keep more than 200-300 images. After 25 years of shooting, my library is about 350GB. I only started to shoot raw in 2010, the rest are jpegs from cameras or scanned film.

So I don’t have thousands of images that never see the light of day.

All these digital files are always on my computer plus they get automatically backed up to a Time Capsule in my house plus a remote server in another state 😄
What determines what you will print.
All that matter is that I like the photo and consider it to be good enough to be printed and looked at it every time I run around the house. Sure I do exchange them with new ones from time to time, but I have a few that hold their place 10-15 years.
 
After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?
...After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?
usually
. Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done?
Not until the PC copies have been backed up
Is your computer filled with thousands of images
about 100,000
that will never see the light of day
I use Lr to tag my images with keywords, making it simple to pull them up based on filter criteria
and do you periodically clean out your image folders.
when browsing the archives I usually find images which are too similar to others in a set and I choose the best and delete the rest. It's an ongoing process.
What determines what you will print.
Wall space. I only have 2 large polycarbonate prints on the wall and they were chosen because of the emotive impact they have on my wife and me. After 2 years of hanging, my wife still points at one of them and says "I love that image"

We also do a photo book for each city we visit overseas, but those images mostly have us in them, and serve as memory/story books of our journey and the images are often not of much artistic merit. it's the funny quirky images that work best, and those are often not in focus, poorly framed or have bad exposure . . . Good reason not to delete 'bad' images early on

Peter
 
I print large quite often and rotate them as my mansion is a bit short on wall space :-) I recently printed a 72" wide panorama. I have multiple copies of the images that matter to me which are mainly photos of my family and friends .

The somewhat obsessive retention of what sounds like every image they ever take by some forum members is a tad OTT :-) Firstly there is no way that every images is perfect , harsh culling of those images that do not measure up will whittle down the numbers rapidly. Secondly alas beyond perhaps family photos of dearly departed loved ones which may resonate with the next generation basically no one cares about your images :-)


Jim Stirling
 
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I have a number of prints on our walls, some from when I shot film, some from digital. Flowers lighthouses, the Grand Canyon, Barcelona. Then there is a wall dedicated to family pictures, professionally done
 
I print large quite often and rotate them as my mansion is a bit short on wall space :-) I recently printed a 72" wide panorama. I have multiple copies of the images that matter to me which are mainly photos of my family and friends .

The somewhat obsessive retention of what sounds like every image they ever take by some forum members is a tad OTT :-) Firstly there is no way that every images is perfect , harsh culling of those images that do not measure up will whittle down the numbers rapidly. Secondly alas beyond perhaps family photos of dearly departed loved ones which may resonate with the next generation basically no one cares about your images :-)

Jim Stirling
Speak for yourself. :P
 
I have about 20 prints on my walls. Every so often one gets replaced with something newer/better/more interesting.
Same story here; some 10-12 yes ago I was listened to a Photography lecture and the key thing that I still remember from one of the photographers was to print a dozen of your favorite pictures large, then try and take a dozen better photos the next year to replace them. Right now I am working on replacing 3 in my front room. These will be scenery portraits of my kids. After that I might do up a panorama in my office (as I don’t have one yet).
 
I really don't print that much. I maintain about 30 framed pictures spread around my home. A mix of old and new of my favorite images. Recently I had some my pet's portraits printed on glass. They turned out nice and have a distinctive look. When I'm not actually watching TV, I'll often have it play one of my slide shows that are stored on a NAS.

Nothing from my memory cards are deleted until there's 2 copies made. Otherwise, you don't really have a backup. All my grading is done on a computer. I maintain a online copy, one offline stored in a fireproof safe and another at a different location. The online archive holds only what I consider my best shots. A custom catalog allows quickly searching for any image.

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Phil
 
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In my living room, I have 14 prints of various sizes, and 1 gouache and 1 oil painting, In my front bedroom I have 4 prints and 2 oil paintings (those paintings are not by me though). There are two pastels in the back hall. The other two bedrooms and the bathroom are not adorned at all.

-J
 
Our fridge is covered with a mosaic of printed magnets.

Printed Magnets
Printed Magnets

It's a nice way to have a lot of work on a 'wall' (I guess about 2-300 small prints), and easy to swap them around depending on mood. It also hides our ugly white fridge.

My wife makes her living though photography, so for past shoots, obvious rubbish gets deleted, but everything else is archived permanently, raws and edits. Clients might want to return for more edits, old shoots can be source material (like textures to use with a projector to add interesting lighting to a scene). Re-editing older work can be good practice, and it's nice to be able to look back and see how you've evolved.

My own images are of an entirely different standard, and I keep only my favourites, most of the rest get deleted, but I keep trying.
 
On my wall is corkboard to where i pin about dozen selected best-of 4x6 (10x15 cm) photos on top of old ones two-three times a year. Now i have ca. 3 years of culture layers there and don't remember any more what's in lower layers, so there are discoveries to be made when i tear it down.

Couple of big prints on walls as well.
 
After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?...
Yep, got about 30 on our walls, mostly 11x18 (cm) and A4 prints.
After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?
Sometimes. More often I leave them on the card and unload once a month, except on holidays or other locations I have not yet been. Then I copy the data every evening on several harddisks.
Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done?
Nope, I leave them on the cards until I get home.
Is your computer filled with thousands of images that will never see the light of day
Yes, that is indeed a problem. I have way too many shots from the same thing, location etc., most of them will of course never be printed. This will get better once I manage to advance my book projects ...
and do you periodically clean out your image folders.
No, the truly bad stuff gets thrown away before its stored in the final folders, the rest I keep.
What determines what you will print.
Hmmm, what I consider to be the best recent images. But I do not change them very often ...

Regards
 
After being on this site for a while i was wondering how many of us actually print there photos and hang them on the wall?...After a day shooting do you load them all on to your comp and sift threw them?. Do you erase all the images from your card when thats done? Is your computer filled with thousands of images that will never see the light of day and do you periodically clean out your image folders.

What determines what you will print.
On my walls?

lounge - dining area: 2 X 20""x30" landscape canvases in floater style frames and 3 x16" x20" framed prints,

Guest bedroom 30"x20" canvas,

print room, various images switched around regularly,

bathrooms various seaside prints

The other 50+ framed images are stored in the garage waiting on my next exhibition / sale + several hundred mounted prints likewise

I download my cards at the end of each day keeping detailed key-worded files and currently have over 650k images archived 11 hard drives (and surprisingly enough people still ask for prints from shots I took >10years ago

As to what determines what I print, its primarily its what I like, even the gallery stuff for sale, but I do a fair bit of printing to meet a customer's requirements as well

I often trawl back over past HDD to check what is there and occasionally try reprocessing old favourites to see if I can improve on the past processing

(It does help being retired and being passionate about the print making process :) )
 

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