What should I do with my daughter's photographs???

Question

I have so many it's ridiculous. I have over 6 albums full of pictures that I've taken of her since she was born. She's only 2! Not to mention all the professional portriats of her. I don't know what to do with them. By over 6 albums full I mean have 6 albums full and so many more they don't fit in the albums. I feel ridiculous buying more and more albums because I need to buy so many. What should I do? And what about her portriats, I have so many on my walls already she covers my entire home and I'm having a boy in a few weeks. What do you reccomend that I do?

Answer 1

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I would pick my favorites and make them into a few coffee table books using this service, but then I would carefully store the other away and I would certainly keep adding to them. The books will have more permanance, but 30 years from now, your daughter (and son) will love sharing these photos with their children. They are priceless....

As for your walls - so what??? Is Architectual Digest doing a photoshoot there? If not - who cares. Your kids are only young once. My boys are growing like weeds, and I treasure the fact that I have captured their images along the way.

Answer 2

Congratulations on your beautiful family!
Now, don't worry. Lots of people look back and wish they had taken more photos, very few ever wish they had fewer! Six albums doesn't seem like all that many! (Of course, I have about 40 of my grandchildren, who are now 5 and 7!) So maybe I'm not a good judge of how many is too many!

I agree with a previous poster who suggested putting the extras in photo boxes and putting them away. If you're not shooting digital, this may be a good time to invest in a decent dSLR. Then be as ruthless as you can manage in deleting many and keeping only the very best. Even if you are film, you usually have the option of keeping only the prints you want. Put in albums the best, and photo file the rest, or keep on CD or DVD. Every few years, check your old files and redo the discs to make sure they stay safely archived.

As for the wall hangers, it depends on how much wall space you have! What I do is rotate some photos, which freshens the view, and allows newer images to go up. I do keep baby photos of our daughter and the grand kids on display all the time, they are in a permanent grouping. You are going to have to make space for the boy in a few weeks, so if your daughter covers the entire wall, you will have to make some decisions. Keep your very favorites up, and pack the others away. In the future, you'll have 3 photos for every one you have now, LOL! One of her, one of him, and one together! Oh, and the occasional pic of the entire family.

So learn to be selective, but keep snapping. Maybe you can build an additional room for photo storage! Good luck and best wishes for you all!

Answer 3

in addition to what the previous answerers said, storyboards help in planning shots, and especially with determining pacing (often, once the boards are completed they are arranged into a crude animation so that the pacing can be figured out before hand).
Also, selecting shots in advance will help to keep cameramen from breaking the 180 degree rule, and from ending up with footage that you can edit together only with jump-cuts and from ending up with other sorts of editing issues.

They're also great for planning out lighting schemas...and for determining what sort of lenses are most appropriate (wide angle? telephoto?).

When they make storyboards for animated features, the storyboard frames essentially become the keyframes of the film, which the fill-animators then "tween" as they say in the biz, lol.

Basically, the storyboards are the foundation for everything. Where the script is the foundation for the audio dimension of the film, the storyboard is responsible for the visual foundations.
Some directors don't really use storyboards, or even a fully developed script for that matter, because they think it can take away from the creative process. Other directors use them just as a loose guideline.
Some say that with a good enough storyboard, it really defeats the purpose of making a movie in the first place.

...storyboarding is a riot actually. Probably one of the most fun jobs for a penciller/illustrator. I did storyboards for some videogame sequences back when I was going to school for 3D animation, and it was the most fun I had while I was going to school. The next closest thing would probably be doing comicbook illustration.

Answer 4

First, Its awesome that you are that much into your child. Second, Put the camera down and step back. You now have another child on the way and will have just as many pics. The first child ALWAYS gets the most pictures taken. Don't pull out the camera every day, save the batteries for special occasions and embarrassing moments.

Answer 5

First stop taking pictures! Send some to friends and relatives. Then pick your favorite ones on the wall and pack the rest away to give to her when she gets older. Make sure you do just as many on the new baby and then after that pack them away for him.
You're just a proud Mom. We all go thru it with the first one. You'll get over it but there isn't a darn thing wrong with it.

Answer 6

Go out and buy a Hope chest (that is what I did) put them in either albums or put them some kind of picture box. Give them to her when she is older. My mom did that with us. When we got married she gave us our hope chest. It was filled with pictures and things that we had made that she felt we might like to have and things that she had bought through the years. It is thoughtful and easy to store in the back of a close that doesn't take up a lot of space.

Answer 7

Your problem is much like that of a professional photographer like myself.

After a while you start quite a collection of photos.

You need to start building a main album that has just those special shots that capture her whole life.

Like I just pick some of my best shots to put in my portfolio not all the best shots.

See my work here http://www.waynewallace.com

Answer 8

Hold onto each and every one of them. When she is stable in her life, married and has a home, give her half of them, but don't give her all of them until you are gone. Photographs can never be lost or given away. They should be forever because they tell a story that cannot be told in any other way.

Hold on to them!!!

Answer 9

If you enjoy scrapbooking I would do this with some of them and keep these out. With the rest I would get photo file boxes to keep the different packs of photos in. This way they are safe and organized and you can get to them whenever you want but they arent taking up alot of needed space. Photos are taken so you can look back at them later. Keep them safe and out of the way and ready for her to see when she is older. These are going to be looked at for years to come but oddly enough you get more pleasure out of photos when they are organized and readily available.

http://www.pfile.com/trk/acid-free/photo-storage-box.html

Answer 10

Buy one big Album to put them all in.