Digital cameras are bad

[Pembo]

I take LOTS of pictures and print lots of pictures. I was very good at putting pics in albums until last fall. I discovered today I have probably close to 1000 pics not in albums. The real problem is I have already filled up the bookcase I bought specifically for photo albums.

We just got a new camera and considering I took 800+ pics without trying, I foresee lots more pics in the future.

HELP me with the organization of it all. I'm thinking I should start using photo boxes for my prints. Any other ideas??? Other than not printing so many pics...

 

[Pembo]

double post

 

[Danauk]

Why not buy a digital photo frame? I have one and it is on all the time. Each time I go on vacation I buy a new memory card and I have a memory card for family pics, nature pics etc and then every week or 2 I swap the cards over in the frame so we see different pictures each week. It is great as we actually end up looking at the pictures more than we would do if thy are stuck in an album.

 

[Squirlz]

We take lots of pictures and we rarely print them unless it's something we want to frame and hang. We have a Flickr account so we can view or show our pictures from any computer.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I would suggest using the "delete" button.

When I got my first camera (may years ago) it cost $0.50 and two Wheaties boxtops. And I sued black and white film.

When I graduated to a 35mm camera I found I tended to take more slides than prints. I also found that I would throw away about 90% of the pictures I took and only save the good oines.

One year, when working for the Red Cross, I was on a flooding disaster operation. On a free afternoon I went to the affected area and shot about 100 photos. When they were processed I kept 15 and put the rest in the beak area for any of the other staff to take and keep. Several people asked me how I could give away such good pictures; my response was that "I only kept the real good ones".

If you are taking 800 pictures you should be discarding about 750 of them!

 

[tvguy]

Bottom line, a lot of us take way too many pictures that we never look at.

Milestone photographs are fine, birthdays, Christmas, weddings, but judging from the posts over on the Cruise Line forum I wonder how any of of these folks had time to enjoy their cruise because they are so busy taking pictures, transfering them to a lap top, and burning them to a CD. Heck, even the smallest memory sticks hold hundreds of photos.
After looking at the albums and albums in our book case, next to the dozens and dozens of video tapes, all of which never get looked at, and going to my parents house and seeing dozens of photo albums tucked away in a closed, never looked at, I have resolved to spend a WHOLE lot less time taking pictures, and a WHOLE lot more time enjoying my vacation.

Digital cameras make it too easy, and too cheap to take too many pictures. When I was a kid, my folks had a Kodak Instamatic Camera, and those 126 film catridges had 36 exposures. So you took 36 photos, and when you were out of film, you were out. And as a mentioned, those photos all ended up in albums that never get looked at.
One of my parents old neighbors has reels and reels of Super8 film and just shakes her head at how much money they spent on that film, and they still have a working projector, but they never look at it.

 

[diznygirl]

I make photo books (on Shutterfly). They hold more photos and take up less space. And then I don't print photos I won't use.

I also like the idea of a digital photo frame. Then you can see a
rotating slideshow all the time.

 

[rigs32]

If you are taking 800 pictures you should be discarding about 750 of them!

So true. I love being able to taken lots of photos to increase the chances of getting a couple that are great. Or I'll keep the scenic or less than perfect photos on my hard drive or a jump drive to have, but a jump drive takes up an awful lot less room than albums.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

I make photo books online instead of printing all the pictures--the photo books do not take up too much room and they do get looked at pretty often

 

[Pembo]

Okay so I need to print less but what should I do with all the ones I've ALREADY printed?? Ideas???

 

[diznygirl]

Okay so I need to print less but what should I do with all the ones I've ALREADY printed?? Ideas???

If you have slip in albums, maybe you can go through some of the older ones and put those photos away labeled in photo boxes (and eliminate some - maybe they have started fading, maybe they aren't as good as you thought )

And then you can re-use those albums for the newer photos that you have already printed.

 

[Imzadi]

Okay so I need to print less but what should I do with all the ones I've ALREADY printed?? Ideas???

The recycle trash can?

Realistically, how many of these are you really going to look at over and over again that you have to keep printed copies? Just because you already printed them does not mean you have to keep all of them.

Where are the originals? Are they on a disk or flash drive/memory card somewhere? If you don't have the originals, sort through to the ones you definitely want to keep and scan them, so you have them in digital memory again.

Staples has a sale starting tomorrow. One 2Gb flash drive for a $1 after easy rebate. You can start saving & archiving your photos right with that. They also have a sale on Staples photo paper, FREE after rebate. You can print out new ones you want, and toss at will.

 

[scrapbookworm]

I actually went backwards- I took mine out of albums and put them into photo boxes. The reason is because I just didn't have the room in our small house for all of the photo albums needed. Only a fraction were in albums, and those albums took up a lot of valuable shelf space.

Now I make scrapbook pages with Smilebox. I bought the deluxe membership so that I can print them or save them onto my computer. I backup my photos onto an external hard drive and Winkflash as well.