A question for all you Astrophotographers

[Jen]

Hi guys/girls
I was just wondering what do you lot actually do with your pictures
I know if i could produce even half the quality of some of the awsome pics ive seen around here they would be plastered all over the walls in my house hehe And have copies in my bag to show off to everyone
Do you sell them, just leave them on your computer, print them, frame them, show them off to anyone that is interested in looking at them enter in comps, post them everywhere on the web (IIS) or your own website, or just stare at them with excitement and joy of the lovely piece of work you have just created?
Im curious

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

All of the above.
I make a little pocket money selling them as framed prints and moonage bookmarks.
I post them on every forum I belong to and get some really helpful advise on how to improve them.
And I've even managed to have a few images published.
But mainly I just look at them and say, wow, I took that?

[marki]

I have three folders, the good, the bad and the ugly . I stuff them in the appropriate folder and sometimes dig the better ones out to use as teaching resources. Can't be stuffed posting stuff on the net, I am more into the technical challenge of getting all my gear working properly.

Mark

[Octane (Humayun)]

All of the above.

Was lucky enough to have my Large Magellanic Cloud image published in AS&T.

Regards,
Humayun

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

I have a gallery on my personal website, and link to there from a couple of forums when I like one I've taken and processed. I have a few framed ones on my office wall at home and have had four separate newspaper publishings. Other than that I have in excess of 20,000 astro photos which I keep to myself. I'm not one to splash it around every time I produce another.

[Dennis]

Once I have got an image that I feel is worth posting, I’ll post it on the Forum but after that, it just lies there, in binary anonymity on my hard drive, although it does get backed up!

Cheers

Dennis

[Liz]

Yes, post onto a Forum or 2 so a few can see them, bore family and friends with a couple ..... otherwise accumulating on an external hard drive.
The joy is in taking them, then seeing them for the first time. I have 1000s of pics that I look at .... maybe never again, or very occasionly.
It is too difficult to make $$$ as so easy to take photos, and soooo many people doing it.
I did do the bookmark thing for awhile too jjj.

[leon]

My Alice tells me I should make a dollar from some of my images, but I tell her I would rather give them away to anyone who would appreciate them, and that is what I do.

Some of the better ones I print out at home on A3 and mount them and just keep them at home for any ones enjoyment, and some are plastered on the walls of our computer room.

Other than that the rest, and there are plenty fill my hard drive.

Leon

[Ric]

Most live on my hard drive, some get posted and others get sent to my mates for wallpapers on their desktops.

Cheers

[Paul Haese]

I have my own website, the link is in my sig but you can find it at:

http://paulhaese.net/

I don't sell my images, I don't consider them good enough to sell to anyone.

I do enter competitions, but mostly I just enjoy looking at them and showing them to other people.

I have been published more times than I can remember (I don't keep a list of publication) and always seem to have some subscription coming in as a result. Mind you never made APOD yet and have submitted some good images of Jupiter. Not sure why that is happening though.

What I most like doing is showing non astro people what I get to see quite a lot. I like to educate the general public with the images where I can. It's all part of my putting something back into astronomy and working on the idea of reducing light pollution.

I hope that answers your questions Jen

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi Jen,

My wife is always giving me a hard time over exactly this question.

I have had photo's published in the US Sky & Telescope, the old Sky & Space and various other publications, they were back when people actually used 35mm film.

I have posted my Solar System images on various forums and the BBC News website has a nice slide show of my images with a commentary by me that they recorded over the top.

Since Feb 2008 all of my Saturn storm images have gone to either the University Of Iowa or The Austrian Academy of Sciences for use by their researchers and comparison with the radio data they receive on the storms from the Cassini spacecraft. I get a buzz from my involvement in their research project.

I love making animations of Saturn and Jupiter and use them around the schools and with my astronomy group.

I have a few images on Sky & Telescopes website on their Solar System page.

I suppose I see the greatest use of my work as being used to introduce others to astronomy at the school and community level.
I have not actually printed out many of my images, however I have incorporated many into various Power Point presentations that I have put together.

Like most others I have a lot of data storage, currently about 2.5 TB mostly in satellite drives, although recently I had an accident with a 350 GB drive and lost all of the data on it, a very sad day.

I store all of my data as I keep refining my capture and processing technique and often find that I can produce better images from older data than I could at that time.

Cheers
Trevor

[Jen]

Thanks for the comments i was just wondering when i finally get a chance to take some pics, what was i going to do with them

Paul that link of yours didnt work

[turbo_pascale (Rob)]

I put them on my iPod Touch in a little photo gallery, plus a few posted on online forums so I can reference them if I want to.

Sometimes (if I remember to take it with me), it can be a nice talking point in a new group of people if the topic comes up. The iPod is not the greatest quality compared to a PC, but the large screen and zoom mean it does a very good job of it compared to say a phone, where the resolution/screen are tiny.

Turbo

[Jen]

Oh no Trever sorry to hear about all your data you lost that would have been a very sad day OUCH
Wow you have achieved a lot with your pics Trevor well done

[Paul Haese]

Jen try it now. I changed it on the original post. Had a brain fade, sorry got my vaccines today for China and was not thinking really straight.

[JD2439975 (Justin)]

I've just started the long road of astrophotography so what little I have is not that good, but I'll show anyone willing to look.
If I ever got good enough or unique enough to be published that would be a real buzz, but I think the ultimate would be to have your data used by the scientific community in some way big or small.

Trevor you must get great satisfaction from knowing you're aiding the betterment of human knowledge, nice one mate.

I've seen some truely amazing images on this site that take my breath away, thank you all who share them with us.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Jen try it now. I changed it on the original post. Had a brain fade, sorry got my vaccines today for China and was not thinking really straight.

lol thanks Paul yep that worked
Beautiful site by the way your pictures are gorgeous

[stephenb (Stephen)]

The very small amount of imaging I have actually done, I have displayed them on my website. www.glenluceskies.webs.com

That's it.

I marvel at other who have achieved so much more. I just don't have the time.

I plan to frame all my old photos along and pencil sketches of Comet Halley from 1985-86 and hang them in the study.

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

I laminate them, then use them as place mats for the kids and guests, better than pictures of some foreighn countries river or bridge.

[leon]

Hey Trevor now that is an idea, never thought of that, must give it a go.

Leon