What do you do with all those pics?

I'm starting to get a pretty big selection of pictures. I was just wondering what do you do with all of them? Do most of you post them to a website? Do you print them off and put them in a photo album? What produces the best result for the eye...printing or viewing on website? And if you print them, what size is standard and where do you get them printed?

Just a thought...
Ruth

Burn them to DVD's that hold 4 gigs of pictures each.

flaclick - Don't know what you call 'BIG'. I shoot about 8000-10,000 per year so I reckon thats big enough.
Once downloaded to PC, I process and then transfer to external harddrive (1st. stage backup). Then burn to DVD [4.25 Gb per disk] which is 2nd. stage backup.
Periodically burn copies and store off-site (3rd. stage backup)

Why fill up photo albums when you can recall photos in minutes anyway? Prints are for customers and or friends.
I have a photo storing/sharing site (see below) where I direct friends and customers for on-line viewing. 600Mb for $23.00 per year.

Standard sizes in U.S. are generally thought of as: 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 12x18, 16x20. I print my own up to 8x10 and use Costco for larger sizes.

[QUOTE=setiprime]flacl​ick - Don't know what you call 'BIG'. I shoot about 8000-10,000 per year so I reckon thats big enough.
Once downloaded to PC, I process and then transfer to external harddrive (1st. stage backup). Then burn to DVD [4.25 Gb per disk] which is 2nd. stage backup.
Periodically burn copies and store off-site (3rd. stage backup)

Why fill up photo albums when you can recall photos in minutes anyway? Prints are for customers and or friends.
I have a photo storing/sharing site (see below) where I direct friends and customers for on-line viewing. 600Mb for $23.00 per year.

Standard sizes in U.S. are generally thought of as: 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 12x18, 16x20. I print my own up to 8x10 and use Costco for larger sizes

Pop up to www.pbase.com/jpfergus​on

Jon F. (AKA 'Jon-the-Elder')

External hard drives. Lots of big, external hard drives.

I post them on my website and sell them. The ones on my hard drive are backed up on CD's. I'm going to have to invest in a couple of externals in the very near future.

exactly LOL

it is late and they don't have them on their website: what are costcos's rates--do you know them off hand??? thanks--I have been thinking about getting some 16x20 printed but don't want to use kinko's.

Costco is awesome.

4x6 – .17
5-7 – .39
8x10 – 1.49
8x12 – 1.49
12x18 – 2.99
16x20 and 20x30 – 9.99

wow! Looks like I am headed to costco

burn em to DVD.

every 5-6 months, copy them all back to an HD and reburn them - i dont trust burned media, or external drives much, i really need a tape backup system.


i will post ones up on sites i want people to see, but i have no reason to have all my pics on a web site, sure one day i will have my site up with "some" of my pics, my best ones.

I place some on my gallery, i back some up i print those i like most. Online it's just a digital image to me, it's not a photograph or physical until it's in print, and nothing compares to the tangible quality of a printed photograph

Mine go to my website, in public or private galleries, as an off-site backup. Anything worth keeping goes on dvd and another set sits on my HD for me to play with
There's also a backup HD in a closet.

Set up a website. It's a good way of sharing your photos with family and friends, and you can probably sell a few too.
I also produce postcard size wildlife prints for my favourite nature reserve. I just charge them cost of materials, and they profit from what they can sell them for. Sold over 400 in just under 6 weeks!
I also print out some of my best ones and frame them myself. Mostly A4 size and they look great on Canons Photo Paper Pro glossy.
Also, don't forget to back up your best photos. I use external hard drive. I also review my images occasionally and have a brutal delete session!

BIG external hard drive, LOTS of DVDs and, if you can be arsed, Flickr for some downsized copies in case of real emergency.