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[ECohen]

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"It's the photos of my family that matter to me"
 

I would defiantly agree. In a way digital has made keeping the family archive more difficult.....With family pictures, I shoot more, I save more and Its hard to make the time to make everything into books or albums....you cant print everything.
 

The photos are better and there are more  of them but the thought of  antique hard drives is frightening. I guess in my family I'm still hoping for a young person to pass the torch to.
 

I've talked to young people with large amounts of cell phone photos very few back them up to a computer and even less have any filing/labling system.......By the time you care its a mammoth chore.

I should  know I didn't care in my 20's either
 

"Youth is wasted on the young"
-George Bernard Shaw

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[ralphh]

You're so right. My intention was to produce a book for each year of my daughters life, ending with her birthday party each year. I did 0-1. She's 4 in 3 months :/

 

I'm hoping that the deleting I've been doing this year will make it a less miserable job and I'll actually make the 3-4 book. Then i can go back and do 1-2 and 2-3 as well. I'm planning to have a big clear out with my personal photos in October when I'm off on paternity leave.

 

BTW, my deleting rate on personal photos is more like 60-75% as the 'good' stay, as where with my professional work only the very best are kept

[Archiver]

My photos are stored on multiple redundant harddrives, raw files in one set of drives, processed jpegs in another set.  Every now and again, I take another harddrive to my parent's place, to be kept in a large box with my name on the side, haha.  This way, I have storage of images in two physical locations.

 

The sheer volume of images I have means that cloud storage would be very time consuming and impractical.  My photo storage is well over 7 terabytes, and currently grows at a rate of about 750GB per year.  And that's only the personal images, not work backups.

[ralphh]

[With family pictures, I shoot more, I save more and Its hard to make the time to make everything into books or albums....you cant print everything

Not specifically directed at you, but I kinda wonder what the point of keeping photos that will never be printed is. The enjoyment is so short lived. We tell our selves that we'll look at them later, but we never do. We just hoard them on disk and hope one day someone will ask to look at them, which they probably won't.

 

We spend all this time taking millions of photos, but we only do half the job. If we took a few less photos we might find time to print books

 

Ecohen, please don't feel picked on, I quoted you because you nearly express something that we all suffer from I think. We overdo the exciting, cheap, instant gratification part and don't bother with the boring, expensive, but ultimately more rewarding part, thinking we'll do it later, but later never comes. I'm determined to do a lot of book printing is year.

[LocalHero1953]

+1 for Crashplan for effort-free backup. I know I wouldn't do it if I had to remember periodically. 

 

I also believe in the backup system that can be read by the Mk 1 Eyeball. I have created a Blurb photobook of all historical family photos from 1860 to my date of birth, 1953. I'm now girding myself up to do the same for more recent years. I get copies made for my kids (all now married with their own kids) to maximise their chances of survival.

 

I'm not a professional, and I also believe in culling, not just to reduce storage needs, but also to make it easier for me and others to look at.

[ECohen]

Not specifically directed at you, but I kinda wonder what the point of keeping photos that will never be printed is. The enjoyment is so short lived. We tell our selves that we'll look at them later, but we never do. We just hoard them on disk and hope one day someone will ask to look at them, which they probably won't.

 

We spend all this time taking millions of photos, but we only do half the job. If we took a few less photos we might find time to print books

 

Ecohen, please don't feel picked on, I quoted you because you nearly express something that we all suffer from I think. We overdo the exciting, cheap, instant gratification part and don't bother with the boring, expensive, but ultimately more rewarding part, thinking we'll do it later, but later never comes. I'm determined to do a lot of book printing is year.

 

No worries it is a big issue ...That's why I pose the question as to what others do.

Digital has changed everything........I hate it but I try not to worry about it. And keep doing the best I can...and enjoy making photos.

 

"I kinda wonder what the point of keeping photos that will never be printed?"

 

This is the biggest problem....they look easy to throw ( there not the winners) ....but in the background is Aunt Tillie with her first husband harry ...the nice one, who passed last year......in the background.

 

Family stuff is hard. 50 years ago I remember my mom going through family photos... awful out of focus photos from the 1950's. She  spent a lot of time pointing out relatives and friends from her past.....that happened to be in he shot.

 

 

80 shots of s beautiful landscape.......pull out 10 to keep and chuck the rest ....... print and frame the best representation of your vision....done and done

300 photos of a family event, 75 go in a book to tell the story......100 get thrown away......125  are left over because, even though they are not great photos or great moments they tell another story....the background

...background I use as a metaphor.......put them on and antique HD and hope for the best.

 

My digital footprint is far bigger than I want it to to be .....50 years and I love photography more each day.

All solutions welcome

 

 

 

[Vec]

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From my own experience the idea of photo albums have been replaced by Facebook photo albums among my friends. I regularly get activity on years old events I've posted there.

 

And I think the analogy continues on other lelels as well.

 

The average photo album was made of the universal 3x5 or 4x6 you got back from the labs. These didn't have the lovingly made corrections and postprocessing you got with the larger prints. The Facebook photos are the same in the sense of being low resolution. At least your PP can apply though. In both cases though, these are second-rate images compared to the originals -- film or digital.

[ralphh]

The difference being that one day Facebook will go bust and take everyone's entire history with it. There isn't really an analogy for that in the print world. It scares me how many people have their only copies of stuff on facebook

[ralphh]

This is the biggest problem....they look easy to throw ( there not the winners) ....but in the background is Aunt Tillie with her first husband harry ...the nice one, who passed last year......in the background.

Family stuff is hard. 50 years ago I remember my mom going through family photos... awful out of focus photos from the 1950's. She spent a lot of time pointing out relatives and friends from her past.....that happened to be in he shot.

I don't generally have people accidently in the background

 

But when I do, those ones get kept. Sometimes I keep a photo specifically because I have a nice shot of someone in the background. When I'm look through photos of an event I'm generally looking to keep at least one of every person there, even if they're only in the background.

[Vec]

The difference being that one day Facebook will go bust and take everyone's entire history with it. There isn't really an analogy for that in the print world. It scares me how many people have their only copies of stuff on facebook

Absolutely. I have friends who take pictures with their phones (because they don't feel like they need anything else) and look at them, share them on SMS and Facebook, and delete them because their phone is full. You also had people that threw out negatives too. But at least you had the physical, tangible piece of paper that still exists. Or in the modern era, print stuff from the digital camera at the same lab that used to develop and print their film, then format the card. I don't think I'll ever understand.

 

My general workflow is I go through my pictures and flag the ones I like enough to look at again. Once I have that I can safely ignore the rest unless there's a request to see if there is anything in the unflaged group can fulfill. The cost of the storage is so comparatively inexpensive that I just don't delete anything except things that are obviously broken like black or white frames (or similar structural defects), or accidentally taken movies.

[ECohen]

The difference being that one day Facebook will go bust and take everyone's entire history with it. There isn't really an analogy for that in the print world. It scares me how many people have their only copies of stuff on facebook

 

remember My Space?.........I think the Cloud ( or any exernal storage) will be just another entity that maybe wont go away but will go up in price ....like the cable bill.

It's not that I want to be off the grid....but  I want as  small a footprint as makes sense .......one that keeps me happy and retired......and I'm still pretty young

 

I don't generally have people accidently in the background ......... me neither