So you bought great gear and taken a great shot

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9designs2

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So you've been out and got the latest and greatest DSLR, some superb glass and shot some great pictures... Got home, polished them to perfection in Photoshop.

What do people then do with the end result ? Print them and put them in folder, or on the wall, just save them on the hard drive for occasional viewing ?
I guess maybe post them on a forum :) ....

Just curious as to what people do with the end result of all the investment and hard work.....(if your a pro and you sell them to the customer that does count :p).
Is you intent when taking the picture to meet your end usage target ? For me I shot with the view that anything really good gets printed to A3, and put in portfolio folder, or a couple could make it to a frame on the wall......
 
Currently for me it goes like this...


Sport photos: Facebook as they are of my school team and I don't get paid (just a bit of fun) and sometimes on a disk for the coaches. Occasionally I will pick out one or two of the photos and do more artistic edits of them.

All other photos: Facebook, Flickr and OCUK :). Usually show them to family as well.
 
Most of the stuff I shoot is family and friends related so gets shared online and printed on request. I've run out of room for pictures at home, I do like to print large every now and then. Lots of stuff gets printed small for my daughter to file away in her albums and shoe boxes :D

Rugby stuff I used to share on a fansite but the club got funny about it so I don't bother anymore. Hill climbs I might look into marketing this year. I've been asked to display in an exhibition for Prescott Speed Hill Climb, I don't know what will come of that. I can't ever see me ever making much money in photography so I don't think it's really worth all the hassle with tax etc.

I don't do landscapes.
 
Actually I should have read the OP properly, I most definitely don't have the latest and greatest camera or the best lenses! :D I like 'em though :)
 
Most of mine are completely random shots tbh, the few family or event shots always end up on Flickr, facebook, here, sometimes TP, sometimes on a few graphic art forums i use. only had a small handful printed because i'm out of wall space and well, no one asks for full size prints of my shots :(
 
Usually process a batch, upload my favourites to flickr and facebook, linking to the flickr on each image. Get most of my good ones in 6*4s in batches of a couple of hundred for storage, and then my favourite ones or one most relevant to my coursework as final pieces I get done in 18*12s usually.
 
Stock photos used to get loaded to a few agencies which has paid for some lenses but I rarely do this any more.

Some of my planned photos get printed and put on my wall or given away as presents.

Some of the holiday snap style get shared with friends and family.


The few weddings I have done or assisted are of course printed and albums made, DVD provided with small and large jpegs.
 
A3 portfolio prints (about a quarter professionally done) are the main output for work I'm happy with. I do heaps of A4 prints to hang up on the 'photo wall' in my home office, for comparison and to see how my appreciation changes with time.

That aside I'm not a fan of photography hanging at home outside my office, I prefer a nice bit of art.

Personal stuff gets electronic copies for friends and such and occasionally used as wallpaper etc. A few get given as gifts every year.

Commercial work (for what little I do any more) obviously goes to clients, usually as high res TIFF files or similar.
 
1. Share on my site, FB and on photo forums.

2. I enter them in bi-weekly competitions in my camera club when the right theme comes along or in the yearly competitive exhibition (open theme) which the general public visits and the local media reports on.

3. In the past some were sold, because they were taken as part of several weddings, corporate events, band photoshoots, etc.

4. Some have been used as part of another project I was working on, such as a website.

There's other plans/dreams but those will have to come in time if at all.
 
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