Do you print or develop every single photo you take?

United States
August 5, 2008 7:12pm CST
I love to take photos, and no matter if its scenery, nature, children, still life whatever, i am constantly taking them. However, in most situations when i sit down to look over what i took, there end up being some that arent so great and i dont bother to print them. For example, our trip to vegas in October i took about 60 photos, and only have about 20 to show for it. The rest were either not clear, or just ended up being a photo of something that later i questioned what the significance of that photo was, and didnt print it. So tell me do you print/develop all your photos or sort through them first. What is the most photos you have taken of one event or occasion?
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@soulist (2985)
• United States
7 Aug 08
I don't develop every single picture I take. I put them on my computer when I get home and look through them. I also play with different pictures, cropping them, fixing the lighting and sometimes making them black and white.
@youless (112481)
• Guangzhou, China
7 Aug 08
It's impossible to print or develop every single photo I have taken. Because I've taken quite a lot of photos all the time. The photos will be so many if I print or develop them. Usually I will just print the best photos. And most good photos will be made into a DVD so that we can watch from TV. I love China
7 Aug 08
No, not since I've had a digital camera. I don't think I've printed out any photos at all since I started taking photos digitally! I store them on the computer and I also have a back up. If friends want to see them I upload them online and send them the link, but I haven't printed any out.
• United States
7 Aug 08
I take around 800 photos a week. About 80% are keepers. When I first started in photography only a small percentage were keepers. Joining photography forums and practice has improved my photography. There is no way I can print that many. I print about 1% of them for a portfolio album. The decision of which ones to print is sometimes a hard decision. I have to put them on disc six times a year and decide which ones to keep on my computer. I put them on DVDs because it would take too many CDs. I intend to get an external hard drive to have easy access to more of them. The most I ever took in one day was 600 at my daughter's wedding.
@di1159 (1580)
• United States
6 Aug 08
I only print up a few to send to relatives, or to frame. I basically store them on an online service, for printing at a later date, or just record them onto a cd or usb and put them away. I will sort them first to erase any that are fuzzy or insignificant. Recently I came back from a 10 day trip and had taken over 300 pictures. It would cost me a fortune to print them out! I think that's the most I've ever taken.
@amvinay (122)
• India
6 Aug 08
i too take but i wont print i keep it in my pc ,i take good ones and upload in the album but no prints at all ....
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
6 Aug 08
I look over the pictures and I will put them on my hard drive or upload them to picassa but as for printing them out, the printing costs more money, so usually I do not unless I have to give some to someone who does not have a computer. We have tons of pictures from when my husband had his thirty=five mil camera and when I had my old brownie and we have not sorted out of that. The most I have taken is about ten or so. And even they were not all that good. Now I will just take a couple with my cellphone camera as I cannot afford a better one. My husband has a Canon and he takes most of the pictures and he can see if it is any good before he shoots them.
@marababe (2503)
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
I take photos a lot, all the time. I never leave home without my handy digicam so that means I take whatever scene, thing, pose, anything I like even spoon and fork and no, I don't print all of them. Sometimes, I don't even print them at all cos printing here costs about Php 8 per picture and even if I choose those with human faces only, it'll be more than a hundred still. So, I just upload them in my Multiply and I back them up in my DVD-R. I only print pictures when it's needed. And I'm also saving up for my laptop's own printer that's "photo printing" friendly.
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
6 Aug 08
Oh heavens no! That's why you take so many photos! You can't expect every photo to be a keeper! You have to take a lot to get those good photos. The saying goes- if you shoot a roll of film and you like just 1 of the images you took, then that is a success! So I guess now with digital, if you like 1 out of every 36 pictures you take then you're doing fine! So 20 keepers out of 60 shots is definitely a high keep ratio! The most photos I've taken? Oh geeze... I took over 1,000 photos at a wedding a few months ago! I think that's the most I've done. I just went on vacation for a week and took around 2,500 photos over the span of the week... but that's 7 days worth of photos. That wedding was just one day! So yah, I take a lot of pictures. I'm currently averaging about 10,000 photos a year. So I obviously don't keep every photo I take!
@Elixiress (3878)
6 Aug 08
I rarely take pictures anymore. I have two digital cameras, neither of them are that good, but I lost the cable for my favourite one and since that I have not taken pictures other than the odd one or two on my phone. When I did used to take pictures I would rarely print them and I never professionally developed them, I preferred to keep them on the computer and then upload them onto the internet in photobucket, myspace, facebook etc.
@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
6 Aug 08
I only print my favorite ones. The others I keep on my computer to print later for scrapbooks.
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 08
Hi, ever since we've gone digital, we seldom print out photos, except for my parents (older generation), who requested for hard copies to keep in their albums. Most of the photos we would upload to our computer, or burn onto CDRs for filing. It is actually better - saves space and cost!
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
6 Aug 08
No. I don't develop/print all the photos I've taken. Mostly I just save them on my computer. I don't have an actual photo album and there is just not enough room to have all my pics hanging up. Plus a lot of times I take pictures that I don't even want later, so printing them would just be a waste, especially pictures of people. I take tons of pics of all my friends and then a few years or whatever later I stop being friends with them. The most photos I've taken of one event is like 2 whole rolls 0f film. However many that is. That was a long time ago as you can tell. I dont even use those kinds of cameras anymore. Anyways that was when I went to Cali for family vacation. It is so pretty there. There are so many things to take pictures of.
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
Hi! When I still used the old cameras (those using films), I had to develop every single of them. But for the digital photos, I only select which ones to print since it can be a bit pricey to print them all. Also, since it's digital, there are times that I just take a picture of something, someone, or just anything just for the fun of it. Then, it's not that good to print and doesn't serve any memory anyway so I don't print them. But instead, I archive all the pictures so I can get back to all of them, even the silly ones. :D
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
6 Aug 08
No I do not print every single picture I take. Some I take already thinking about doing something else with them instead of printing. I usually only print the ones that I plan on giving to someone or to display on a frame. Sometimes I go trough older photos looking for something specific and when I find it I print it. Most photos are on disk, so I can always print them later.
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
6 Aug 08
I take it that you're talking about printing out Digital photos? I haven't printed out many digital photos at all since getting a Digital Camera..I'll keep them in albums on my computer,upload some onto mylot,and photo blog sites,and mostly just email most to friends and Family..I've been into photography since the Early 80's and have a lot of 35mm prints stored around the house..I didn't have the option of choosing my prints the first time around with film D&P,only the reprints..
@sameroad (3179)
• United States
6 Aug 08
cameras - photography
I love to take pictures too. I also love photography and doing photography. I take pictures ALL the time but I don't get them all printed... That would cost way too much money if i did that for every picture lol I go through them and pick the ones i like the best and even if i don't print it now I always save my pictures and I put them on CD's so I can always go back and look at them or get them printed if i wanted. The most photos I have taken at one time would be around 800? I think I was the photographer for my brothers wedding and that was first time I had ever done anything like that so I wanted to make sure I got a picture of everything but even with all the work I did but there was still a few shots I didn't get that I wanted too... but oh well...I tried and it's not like they paid me but when I go out I always take a lot of pictures... I have gone out with my cousin and came home with 200-300 pictures of us just being goofs/drunks. lol
@momalisa65 (1971)
• United States
6 Aug 08
No, I hardly print any of them! Lol. I keep them on my computer and I also store them on a website that I share with family and friends. The only time I print them is if I took a picture of someone and I'm giving them a copy. Or if I have a really good one of my kids and I want to frame it and hang it up.
• United States
6 Aug 08
Holy no! I take, on average, ~200 photos a week, just around the house. My walls would be plastered four or five inches thick, even if I printed them as wallet prints! Not to mention that I'd have to sell everything I own to keep up with that habit. I took over 5000 pictures on a seven day vacation about a year ago, but about 1/3 of them were no good. I upgraded my camera (one with an operational light meter!!) and don't have to take so many to get decent pics.
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
I sort through them first. Then If I find something that I want to develop/print, I print it especially when I want to give it to a friend or send it. But usually I just post it on my multiply account.