Do you print your digital photos?

tone1

I use an app called Freeprints..it lets you upload 45 photos a month and you only pay postage which is admittedly £4.95 
The hope being that you want bigger photos etc to upgrade which is where they make their money.
I'll get 45 prints every now and again in case the PC crashes 

Guitar_Slinger

The only ones printed are for posting to my nan and mother-in-law, who are 89 and 80.  

Everybody else is OK with digital versions, but we do back up what's on our PC and phones/cloud in two places (DVD and external hard drive).

fretmeister

tone1 said:

I use an app called Freeprints..it lets you upload 45 photos a month and you only pay postage which is admittedly £4.95 
The hope being that you want bigger photos etc to upgrade which is where they make their money.
I'll get 45 prints every now and again in case the pic crashes 

Mmm.

Do they get the intellectual property rights in your photos then?

Guitar_Slinger

Ooh - interesting point!  Our son started school last year and we were surprised to see it would cost £9.99 to buy the IPR of all the pictures taken of him.

We (maybe mis-)understood that the photographer keeps copyright of the kids and can sell them but never chased it up.  Instead we dropped out of the lame randomly-selected group shots they seem to do.

fretmeister

The photographer (or his employer) usually gets the rights.

But sometimes uploading them includes terms and conditions that transfers those rights to the site owners. Or doesn't remove your rights, but allows the site owners to use them as they wish as well - even to the point of selling them.

Have to have a good look at their terms when I get a mo.

ThePrettyDamned

Guitar_Slinger said:

Ooh - interesting point!  Our son started school last year and we were surprised to see it would cost £9.99 to buy the IPR of all the pictures taken of him.

We (maybe mis-)understood that the photographer keeps copyright of the kids and can sell them but never chased it up.  Instead we dropped out of the lame randomly-selected group shots they seem to do.

The person taking the photo almost always keeps the rights. 

But yes, "free " sites with photos or "photo competitions" are often ways for people to effectively buy thousands of stock photos for free. 

KrisGee

10 quid for 200 7x5 prints from Asda till the end of August. Have printed 600 so far and I'm defo coming back for more.

RaymondLin

Nope….I have printed just 1 and framed and kept.