Pros & cons of digital photos

[shootingstar]

At this very moment, I'm in stuck mode. Went to a pharmacy where you order and have printed off in minutes hard copy photos from digital images. I biked over with photos burned to disc.

But person won't be there at photo counter to do photo jobs until 4 hrs. due to illness. The thing is that I need some particular photos to paint from...and current photos at home don't inspire me the same. My Muse is stuck but charging to go...

We take and have thousands of digital photos. While it is great...for compact storage...just ploughing through tons of file directories and many photos to find good ones...takes considerable time.

Are you very organized about your digital photos? What % of your digital photos do you make prints/print off?

[mimitabby]

we take tons of digital photos too, but don't need hard copies of most of them. We view them and enjoy them on our computers.

Digitals aren't any less practical than What they replaced, really.

I can never go back. And I just read that Polaroid will no longer make Polaroid film. It is the end of an era. Polaroid
was the former "instant" photo.

[Zen]

I like to think I'm fairly organized with my photographs.
I have them organized like this (kind of like 'tagging")
my Documents>photographs>sub-folders tagged with event or subject name>individual photo name

Wow, I just impressed myself!

I get about .oooo9% of my shots printed.

I would like to get my old film camera fixed, I miss the control I have over depth of field, light, and color saturation with different films.

As for Polaroid, it has a unique color quality. I bet there are a few fine artists searching for all the Polaroid film they can stockpile. Kind of like Elaine and The Sponge.

[SouthernBelle]

Can you not print them out yourself? If you have a color inkjet printer and some photoprint paper, you can produce some pretty decent prints.

When you print you have to tell it what kind of paper you're using and that you want it to print photo quality.

Bit of an ink hog, but I usually print my own.

[Zen]

too cheap/poor to print them myself

[shootingstar]

I like to think I'm fairly organized with my photographs.
I have them organized like this (kind of like 'tagging")
my Documents>photographs>sub-folders tagged with event or subject name>individual photo name

Wow, I just impressed

I get about .oooo9% of my shots printed.

I would like to get my old film camera fixed, I miss the control I have over depth of field, light, and color saturation with different films

Related: I am highly selective in what I print in colour at home. ie. execute a print colour job..um every 3-4 months. We just bought a laser printer so the dried up cartridge problem is not an issue right now.

I prefer to spend 25 cents at the pharmacy to print off a good photo on quality paper..if I plan to give photo to a family member or friend.

Wow, I could only rename inidividual digital photos...maybe 10 out of 100 photos.

Cycling really encourages one to see the world visually way more and to see more detail ... along the way.

[Grog]

I print a batch after each major trip or event. The photos get filed away in an album that's not really organized. On my hard drive they are organized by directory and some of them are tagged, but not many. I find that the free Google software Picasa (available for download somewhere on the Google site) is just great to organize things and find them later.

I have discovered photobooks recently. We did our wedding pictures and everyone thought the results were spectacular. I am the most critical of it: the quality is certainly not that of a professional album, but friends and family members just LOVED it and all of them told me I was silly. Nonetheless, it's a different category. We used http://www.mypublisher.com/ and did hard cover (parents) and softcover (people who helped us the most) albums. We also did one of our honeymoon photos just for fun in a softcover book. It's a great way to show pictures, much more fun than a regular album, I find. Probably more similar to a scrapbook, but there's no way you'll catch me playing with scissors and glue, I'm too clumsy and impatient. I'd rather play with my computer, their software is super easy and if you have skills you can also do photoshop work. (Some people do digital scrapbooking, too, you could research that option...) Anyway have a look if you're curious: http://www.mypublisher.com/bookstore...60je%3E3124384 (long download). What makes me feel better is that if we loose it or want another copy, I just have to send the files out again. (There are bike photos around the end of the book...)

[Geonz]

I can't even find my flogging camera.

The software that came with it files things in a folder when I put 'em on the 'puter. That's more organized than I ever am