Photos

[eastlondonseagull]

I've just spent nigh on a month selecting, scanning, uploading and re-sizing prints (and slides) for a 100-page A3 hardback photo book for my parents' Golden Wedding Anniversary. It contains photos from pre-wedding, their wedding day itself, kids, grandkids, right up to the present day. There are about 275 photos in total.

I'm doing it through Photobox, because they had a fantastic deal – £30 (RRP £125). The software's a bit fiddly, and you can't zoom in when you're playing with the layout to properly align pictures that you're placing yourself, but the templates are ok. Well worth it for £30 and it looks beautiful on screen. We've done books through them before and the print quality is excellent.

 

[Brovion]

Either she is an excellent photographer or a poor editor! I'm a keen amateur togger with a few lenses and a dslr, but must delete 40-60% of the shots I take if I think they are either not in sharp focus, or poor composition etc.

Oh that's easy to answer - she's a poor editor! I'd probably bin about 40-60% as well. She does though still treat a digital camera the same as she did our old film one, i.e. she only 'fires when she can identify a target' so to speak rather than taking a load of shots and then picking the best ones and deleting the rest. Indeed when I took a load of photos of her and expected her just to pick the ones she liked she still printed all of them!

 

[tinx]

I do a photobook once a year of all the best photos I have taken in that year, its a really nice item we get at Christmas and when familly come round they all flick through. Makes a nice document of the kids growing up and a bit more modern than an album

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I keep albums, and always will. It's not just the same looking at pictures on a computer. Music & movies are in iTunes, but photos are more personal IMO