After a session my clients often contemplate between getting prints or a digital copy of their photos. My best advice is to think through what you plan to do with your photos, as the answer may be different for different people. Here are some points to think about –
You simply want to keep the photos forever
Keeping photos forever might be harder than you think. CDs and DVDs are great for the short time, but you can’t trust them to work forever. Keeping the photos on a hard drive may be safer, but then the files might get lost in the digital maze of folders on your computer, so you should work out a system to make sure you can find them. However you choose to keep them, I recommend uploading your photos to one of the cloud services in addition to saving them locally. There are some great (and free!) cloud services available such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive – just beware that nothing in the cloud is completely safe or private.
You’d like to share the photos online
If that’s the case, you may want to have them professionally resized and sharpened for the web (which I’m happy to do for you to ensure they look great!). I’m sure your photos will get many compliments and shares, but after a short while they will be forgotten in the history of your timeline…
You’d like to print the photos
If you’re just printing wallets for the grandparents to show around any photo lab can do a good job, but if you’re after a piece of art to hang on the wall, I highly recommend using a professional lab. Professional labs offer a wide variety of products to fit your home and style, and more importantly – are of significantly higher quality. The photos you print at retailers might lose their quality after just a few short years and show signs of fade or discoloration. While professional printing is more expensive, it’s really one of the cases where you get what you pay for.
If presenting your photos at home is something you’re considering — and to be honest, I think photos look better on a wall than on a CD in a drawer — you should think about what you’d like to showcase, where, and what you want it to reflect. A collection of small prints on a shelf by the fireplace? A large wall art canvas in the dining room? A collage of framed photos on the nursery wall? A professionally designed album to put on your coffee table? The options are endless, and I’m happy to help! I have product samples and imaging software to help you visualize what the photos would look like on YOUR walls. So next time we meet, feel free to ask me about the products I offer and how they can fit YOU.
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(photo above was created to help visualize an arrangement of three canvases for a nursery)
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