Photography | A Printed Memory From Istanbul

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“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”

( Albert Einstein )

I’ve written few blog post about  about printing your digital photographs and I don’t want to create another long post here, anyway, I try to make it a habit to prints some of my family pictures at least every six month period. I believe for those of you who have a camera with you, be it a compact camera, a DSLR or even your Android or iPhone camera, you took thousand pictures, if not hundreds of pictures a month with them.

But not many people care to prints it, maybe it is not that important, maybe your photograph is not so important, maybe it was just intended for facebook album, just some kind of visual information about where you are, what you are doing and something like that, but sometimes the funny things is that, when you accidentally deleted your photograph you get angry, why is that? If it’s not important, why got angry. I want to ask you here, how many of you have printed any of your pictures taken with iPhone? I’ve printed hundreds of them and the quality is acceptable for 4R size.

Nowadays we have so many gadget to view our photographs, some of you may think that it is a waste of money to print a photograph when you can always view them on your mobile phones and iPad but trust me  it will never be the same as looking them in prints. Some of you reading my blog, might be a wedding photographers and I believe that most of you will gives your customer an album, a printed album and not just a CD or DVD, why is that? Why not just give them a DVD and charge the same as printed album?

You may say that, it  was a different scenario, that one is for business purpose, but come think of it, if you think that an album or printed materials is so important for your clients, then why not make one for yourself, make a custom album for yourself, for your family, even if you don’t have the time to make a custom album for yourself, just print them on a normal 4R or 8R size, that will be just fine.

Time and time again, I read someone posted in facebook about their corrupted hard disk, all those precious family pictures is “history,” yes to those of you who have money, they can send the hard disk for a “recovery” but that one will surely cost you some money. I think you will pay more for the “recovery service” than the price of your hard disk. So I think a printed photographs can act as an “insurance” for your precious memory.

Some of you reading this might think that I wanted to sell you something, wanted you to come over and prints your picture with my company, actually I don’t have any company, I don’t have any hidden agenda here, I just wanted you, my friends to really take a good care of your pictures, especially your family pictures, print some of them, print the best among the best, the best moment, you can print using your very own printing machine or just send them to normal printing lab.

The printed photograph above were my latest printed material, more than 200 pieces of them, I use normal photo lab service that you can found in shopping malls to get it done, all of them is 4R in size. I wish I can make a photobook someday but I really don’t have much time but yes I will make one someday. I know that some of the photograph especially travel pictures really will look great in photobook than looking at them by pieces.

Anyway, whatever it is, make sure you print some of your digital photograph before it is too late, before you have million of them and then you have a hard decision choosing which one to prints. So if you have nothing to do after reading this post, why don’t you select some of your best pictures, put them into one folder, save them to your thumb drive, take your family to a shopping mall or bookstore, find a photo lab, give them your thumb drive and then have some lunch and within an hour your picture should be ready, how hard is that.