Hey everyone, I am a hobby photographer and one thing that Anny’s me most is, that I try to get nice shots, but after got them and edited them, they remain on my hard drive indefinitely. So I wanted to ask you, how you use it work or hie you display it. I cannot print everything, since I don’t have that much space. I thought about a digital frame, do you use one? Could you recommend one? Is there any other way you use the photos?
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Micahels often has great sales on good frames. I just print em myself. Get somecof your favorites printed. Itll really help motivate yourself to go take more photos, as well as if you feel unmotivated it helps kickstart my creative mood as well, if the old me can take good photos, the modern me certainly can do it again.
My local library has very good quality photo printers. Its very affordable to print there.
I got to the dollar store and get the frames there, can be 4x6 or 12x18
Very affordable, efficient, cost effective and immediate. I have nothing but bad experiences with printing places. If i can, i avoid.
I have 8 inexpensive simple 5x7 frames (I think they were from IKEA) along the wall above my TV.
3-4 times a year I change them out, using photo paper in my cheap home printer. I use 8.5x11 paper, 2 to a sheet, and cut to fit the frames. I get a lot of compliments on the display.
I also have a screen saver on my small kitchen TV of my all time favorites.
I have a digital frame in my living room. Think it’s an Aluratek 15" or 19" – something from Best Buy. I’ve given a couple away to people as well and they’ve seemed to like them. It’s a nice way to show the old work, the new work, and even just candid stuff you shot on your phone that you wouldn’t necessarily want to print but you want to be reminded of occasionally.
The software that runs on it is a little hacky but it works fine. I have it set up to shut off after it doesn’t detect motion so the screen doesn’t flame out prematurely.
I’ve found that a lot more manageable than prints with frames – I already have way too many frames and artwork on my walls that I would struggle to even have room to put more up. As is, every 18 months or so I’ll move things around and swap some pieces out for others to freshen the space up.
Wenr to Italy one day and some of the museums/ art exhibition etc were empty. This means nothing. Is not like suddenly that art depreciated. You want instant gratification for some rubbish photos while real artists with real work have empty exhibition. Check your reality first
This is a very toxic comment with a lot of assumptions.
- how you wanna rate my photos if you never saw them?
- who says it’s about showing them in an art gallery? it’s for looking at them at home, not letting them rot on my hard drive…
- but if I wanted, why should I not present them in a gallery or maybe online if people would like my photos? luckily I don’t need to rely on your judgement
- I am glad I don’t have your problems, so I need to vent on strangers on the internet
If you work on a desktop computer, consider using a photo folder to show as either your screensaver or desktop background. Windows (at least) can be set to shuffle through different backgrounds periodically.
You can also use your own photos as the background for a Chromecast if you want to see them on your TV.
Rotate prints on walls.
I make books
when I’m bored I go back over my photo folders and more often than not, I can recognize a theme or concept I can group together for a book… sometimes I purposely shoot for a book too
… and by book… I mean POD (self published) book
The best thing I have done is use my TV. Specifically the Roku Photo App. Set it as a screen saver and after a couple minutes of no activity I see a stream of my photos. Really love it as I had for years taken pics and never looked at them. You can also send the stream to others with a Roku (we jsut have a smart tv with roku as the OS). SO great to also share those pics with my Mom so she can see the grandkids.
Get a Meural Canvas.
i have a few frames and print on regular printer paper. i switch them out.
I use a raspberrypi hooked to a tv running some custom software to display images.
There are some free projects out there you don’t have to write your own.
The quality on a TV is way better than a small digital frame. We have ours on most of the time we are home.
We have talked about printing books but just never got around to it. The layout takes time, not to mention going through the thousands of pics we take a year.
Hobbyist here that’s getting back into it. I have an Aura frame in our living room, and lines in my office that I pin 4x6 to.
Id get an old school photo album and print 4x6s
I have a digital frame in my living room. Think it’s an Aluratek 15" or 19" – something from Best Buy. I’ve given a couple away to people as well and they’ve seemed to like them. It’s a nice way to show the old work, the new work, and even just candid stuff you shot on your phone that you wouldn’t necessarily want to print but you want to be reminded of occasionally.
The software that runs on it is a little hacky but it works fine. I have it set up to shut off after it doesn’t detect motion so the screen doesn’t flame out prematurely.
I’ve found that a lot more manageable than prints with frames – I already have way too many frames and artwork on my walls that I would struggle to even have room to put more up. As is, every 18 months or so I’ll move things around and swap some pieces out for others to freshen the space up.