Releasing your photos from their digital prisons (creating a photography portfolio)

[Bill Beaton]

Do you guys ever print your digital photography? I highly recommend it. Your pictures really come to life, when they enter the real world.

I've printed about a hundred photographs at a fujifilm photo kiosk, and at the time I thought the results were pretty good. Certainly for the €35 (or so) that I spent on doing this.

Then I used photobox.com to design my own photobook. It arrived yesterday in the mail, and it's beautiful. Much better quality than from a photo kiosk. And very professional looking!

I highly recommend this service. It allows you to create a professional portfolio (or just a collection of nicely printed digital photos to show your friends what you've been doing). It's got a nice hard cover and it also allows you to add text and change the layout of each individual page as you please. You could have full-page pictures on every page if you wished.

Here are some pictures of my book. The colours seem a bit washed out here, but that's just because of the low lighting conditions in my room. The colours in reality are actually excellent.

http://jonathan.beaton.name/photobook/DSC_0004.JPG

http://jonathan.beaton.name/photobook/DSC_0007.JPG

http://jonathan.beaton.name/photobook/DSC_0014.JPG

http://jonathan.beaton.name/photobook/DSC_0019.JPG

The last page.

[samsite999]

Funny you should say that, I started mine last week, I need to get a nicer display book as i was skint at the time but i have got about 20 A4 prints in it (I print my own work and have access to my own A3 printer and a A0 printer at work now :))
I think every one should print there stuff but there is a cost and time facter involved. I worked at epson for years so I know exactly what i am going when it comes to getting good ink and paper cheeply, But I know there are a lot of people who realy struggle with colour matching and actualy getting the print to come out like it looks on the screen.
If any one needs advice on printers, paper and setup (specificaly epson) give us a PM or somthing and ill do my best to help
I usaly spend about 4 quid each on ink catrages, my last batch of A4 paper was realy expenseve though waying in at about 17 quid!!

[samsite999]

im not going to link to the site in here as i think thats unfair, but if ur in the UK and want good quality epson inks that I use and would recommend cheaply, drop me a pm and ill send you the link, I have used them 3 times and got a VERY quick free delivery as well

[ukanfoff]

oooooooooooooooooooooo
i always wanted to make my own book,,
by the end of the year ill make one..
but now i got so many photos. dang it.

[stine]

wow, beautiful book, bill and wonderful pictures. how come i've never seen those photos before? :)
i was thinking about printing some of my stuff, too - and i have all those problems sam talked about. but since i don't live in the UK, i guess i'll have to figure it out myself and try different services. because i'm a bit into bookbindery, i will just to get my photos on paper. not sure whether to print it myself (canon i865) or give it to a photo servcie. what do you guys think?

anyway, thanks for showing your book, bill (and sam for the advice - i'm getting more and more envious of your equipment!). :)

[VIDEODROME]

When I eventually get a larger portfolio of work I should create a book like that.

[Bill Beaton]

wow, beautiful book, bill and wonderful pictures. how come i've never seen those photos before? :)

Some of them I have posted, but I went to Belgium and Vienna recently and I haven't posted any photographs from there.

http://jonathan.beaton.name/photo

(Yeah my name isn't really Bill.)

[Morbid]

That looks very nice, was it expensive?
I just recieved some 20x30cm prints of my best photos, its really something else to have them as physical prints opposed to on a computer screen.