What do you do with your prints?

netog · Oct 17, 2017

This is a general question. I think most of us select their best negatives to enlarge. So what do you do with your prints?
Do you put them in an album?
Do you frame them to hang in your house?
Do you try to sell them?

I have an album for small prints and also frame a few and hang them at home, but... I can only have 4 frames at the time, so I only show the most recent work.

Thanks

Ernesto

Neal · Oct 17, 2017

Hi Ernesto,

No surprises here. The best go in an album (note that there is still only 1 album after several decades), some go on the wall (mostly in my office), a very select few are on walls in friends homes or offices (no more than a dozen) and there is one on the wall in our living room. Of course there are family portraits that are in several homes but they hardly count.

No sales for me. Any time someone shows interest in one of my photos I get so excited I give them away.

Neal Wydra

tomfrh · Oct 17, 2017

I have a few dozen on our living room walls and around the house. I generally print up to 8x10.

c41 · Oct 17, 2017

netog said:
This is a general question. I think most of us select their best negatives to enlarge. So what do you do with your prints?
Do you put them in an album?
Do you frame them to hang in your house?
Do you try to sell them?

I have an album for small prints and also frame a few and hang them at home, but... I can only have 4 frames at the time, so I only show the most recent work.

Thanks

Ernesto

What sort of album? Ive started filling old paper boxes but id like to separate the best ones for safer keeping.

Sirius Glass · Oct 17, 2017

Hang them on the wall, framed and matted. I am out of space in the living room, dining room and hallway for very large prints [24"x36" and 30"x30"] between the prints and the oil paintings. I have some mounted with Plak-It in the darkroom where there is still some space. There is one bedroom which I use as a study with completely blank walls.

Ko.Fe. · Oct 17, 2017

Some are given away. Some at the walls. Most at are in boxes, for projects.

Roger Thoms · Oct 18, 2017

Quite a few of mine are hanging on my folks walls.

Roger

Joe Jesus · Oct 18, 2017

My friends get most of mine. Giving prints away is probably my favorite part of the ordeal.

Theo Sulphate · Oct 18, 2017

The best go on the wall at home - these are from 5x7 to 16x20.

Many are in albums.

Some old prints from decades ago are in envelopes in boxes.

I have a new scheme where I select about 10 4x6 prints at a time and put them in a large single frame on the wall, then after many months select 10 new prints. The problem is that I become fond of the selection and don't change it. So now I've added a second such frame.

I don't scan or look at original-film photos on the computer.

I give car-club photos to those in my car clubs.

I don't sell or have any photos online.

Sirius Glass · Oct 18, 2017

I exchanged mounted framed prints for offroading equipment.

removed account4 · Oct 18, 2017

sometimes i sell them, sometimes i put them on the wall, or give them away, sometimes they just sit in boxes &c

rpavich · Oct 19, 2017

Some are for the shoebox like when I was a kid and we all sat around the kitchen table and looked at the "old pictures" and some go on my office cork board, and some are given away, some become post cards mailed to friends or relatives.

trondareo · Nov 5, 2017

We have an area in the living room where two plywood boards are mounted to the wall. Pictures, drawings etc are on display there using pins and bull dog clips, until they start to irritate or something better is put up.

Afterwards some pictures go on my office wall, some are given to friends if they are relevant, and finally they get a resting place in the cardboard boxes the paper comes from Ilford in.

nworth · Nov 11, 2017

Mostly I throw them away. The better ones I stack up and file. A few very good ones make it to the mounting and framing stage, sometimes going on a wall somewhere. I need to get some demountable frames in 8X10 or 11X14 size (those things with glass, a backing board, and clamps - I have some 12 X16 ones I use for color) so that I can temporarily mount prints and temporarily display them at home to see it I like them.

miha · Nov 12, 2017

99% of them I put in an album (where they belong).

Svenedin · Nov 12, 2017

Mainly back in the empty paper boxes or the bin. I keep some of the duds to practise spotting or because they have interesting faults. I have about 20x 8"x10" prints in clip frames on my office wall.The idea was to rotate the display and change it every so often but people seem to like them so I haven't changed them. I’ve never mounted or properly framed any of my prints. I’ve given away prints with minor imperfections that I would otherwise destroy and people seem happy with them. I sell a few but not often.

Berri · Nov 12, 2017

I print the negatives I like best. I mount the best ones to mat boards, put in a clear plastic bag and then in a box. Some of them go in frames too

MegoApesNut · Nov 29, 2017

I plan on doing a lot of printing in the next year or so. There is a nationally renown art show held in our tiny town every August. I am hoping to get a booth there next summer and sell any prints I have completed as well as some digital prints I have. I produce a musical festival every year in which all proceeds are given to a foundation that helps special needs kids. I am planning on giving away all of the proceeds from print sales to the foundation, as well.

jim10219 · Nov 29, 2017

My worst ones get thrown away immediately. The middle ones go into a pile in the closet where they wait to get thrown away at a later date. My best ones get framed and hung on my walls before eventually getting moved into the pile where they await their date with the trash bin. One day I'll start selling them. But for now, I'm still working out my processes and perfecting my craft. I'm still progressing fast enough that there's not much point in trying to sell what I have, when in six more months I'll have much better stuff to sell. But I don't throw all of them out immediately because there might be a handful that I still think are pretty decent prints a few years from now. For now, I'm just trying to put together a strong portfolio to show to local galleries.

Craig75 · Nov 29, 2017

In the bin where they are safe

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