Prints and Canvases

Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Jpegs

Most people who follow my blog or follow me on Twitter know I’m a huge advocate of printing pictures.hell I’m even know because of this phrase alone – Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up To be Jpeg! Whether it be prints or canvases it doesn’t matter just get photos printed and in albums or up on walls.

I’ve written about this subject a few times now. If you want to read those they are here. I’m by no means saying that you need to go out and buy a ton of scrapbooking stuff to make albums although it’s pretty it’s really not necessary. When I was young one of my favourite things to do was flip through albums because not ono was it memories but before long the whole family was looking at those picture and rehashing the memories – the good, the bad and the ugly. My kids did and still do the same thing and they love it. Now images are sitting on hard drives doing nothing. Most people can’t find what they are looking for most of the time or don’t even bother at all. Lots of family memories have gotten lost because of hard drives crashing. Then they cry because there are no back ups let alone prints or canvases from the special moments. It seriously kills me every time I see a tweet, Facebook update or blog post about this.

PRINT YOUR PICTURES PEOPLE!

To make things a little easier I have created a pinterest board so clients can get an idea of what to do with their digital images from sessions. It seems somewhere along the line most people stopped wanting the prints and only wanted digital images. I’m happy to say that all my sessions now include at least one print because like I said above printing is important. One of the current trends is to make gallery walls with lots of family photos and I’ll admit I love this. It’s great in stairwells, hallways, and family rooms. It honestly works in almost any space.

As for prints if it’s under an 11X14 you can usually get it printed anyplace. I use Blacks for my own small prints however anything larger I get printed from a professional printer (you can ask your photographer to recommend someone or have them order prints for you).