What do you do with your photos?

[gone]

You gotta print them, that's the deal. When you go from sitting in front of a computer monitor looking at scanned negs to leafing through the prints, you'll see what I mean. Start w/ only your best negs, save the problem ones for later on.

Then put the best prints on the wall, give them to friends, get good and get a gallery show, all that. It's what photographers do. Digital has tried to leap over this protocol but it's really a bad idea. You need prints, the best you can make.

 

[Sirius Glass]

That is my children's problem along with two boxes from my father that I never opened but I suspect are 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" slides.

 

[markbau]

Most of mine just go in a box. Once the best print I can make is made, the journey has ended and I'm on to something else. I don't need to prostitute myself to get my prints hung in a gallery, I don't need external validation. Some of my older work is historically significant so I share it on a personal, historical website and am sometimes asked for them by people doing books/magazines.

 

[Tel]

I live in a small house and I'm running out of wall space. So I have a bunch of photos hung up (both mine and friends' work) along with some paintings and sketches. The photos tend to rotate over time; as I get new prints made, they might replace some of the stuff on the wall, which gets stored in a portfolio in a closet.

I've been lucky and had a bunch of prints hung in different galleries, even sold a few. But the reward for me is in the shooting and developing. Though it's fun to see my stuff in a catalogue too.

 

[awty]

Mostly practising and fiĺing bins. Now I have more space and a few negatives worthy of printing, I'm starting to make final prints. I have mat cutters, mat board, a pile of charity store picture frames to repurpose and various photo paper that needs using up.
Ultimately the endeavour is to make my own pictures to hang on the wall.

 

[jnamia]

sell them, trade them and give them away. no point hanging on to things people supposed to enjoy things that other people make.

 

[McDiesel]

I use my photographs to get laid. Only works with Ilford films though. Chicks don't dig T-grain, they think it's coming from a B&W picture mode on a Canon DSLR. In fact, that's the only reason I shoot film.