Pictures - the more the merrier or less is more?

Elsabelle what about having a pocket to store extra photos or making some hidden behind others. You could take the page out to see them. Just another idea.

OR another idea, have 1 page for photos and another page (page 1) with 1 or two and title, Journaling, fun items ?

More the merrier…I add flip ups on the outside of the page protector and use magnets to keep them from flopping

Or attach 6x12 pocket page to one side.

I often put more on one side than the other. I rarely get 8 on a double unless some of the pictures are smaller. I have some good sketches that use 8 photos, but you don't have room for much more.

I do the same, I'll use flip ups to add more photos. 

I tend to use fewer photos--one to three for a single-page layout. But I did recently sign up for an Allison Davis 4x6 sketch class and was blown away by the creative ways she gets many more photos onto a spread. Worth looking into if you want ideas. I know she also sells sketch bundles at Scrapbook Generation.

With (8) 4x6 photos, I would do 3 or 4 page layouts.

There have been times, when I've taken so many photos 100+ (hello! >> rolls of film....I used to take so many photos, because I never know what I would get until the film was developed), and then so many of the photos are good ones. I've done 10+ layouts for one event, party, gathering, etc.... I just looked and counted, the most was 17 layouts for one party. 
Since I switched to digital years ago, I take less photos, since I can immediately see if I've got good ones or not. 

These days, I live my life with the "I don't care what anyone else thinks" attitude and philosophy. 
They are my scrapbooks, so I'll make as many pages as I want to, for each event, party, gathering, get together, photo op, etc...

My opinion is use as many photos as you want or don't want on your page layouts.  

Less is more for me!

When I have too many photos for a layout, I insert a pocket page to hold the "extra". I don't like to put too many photos on a page. I feel like they get lost.

I don't take the greatest photos + can tell the story better with my journaling so I don't generally use more than 1-2 photos on a page. That being said, if it's an event page and I have several photos I want to use, I will make multiple layouts vs. one layout with multiple photos.

For instance, we went to the pumpkin patch this past weekend where I got a great photo of my mom + my oldest, my mom + my youngest, 2 photos of my BF + me + my kids (although in both pictures someone is not smiling -- sigh), a selfie with my oldest, my mom, & me + the regular activity photos + us picking out pumpkins. If I tightly cropped all the photos I could use most of them on a single page or double page spread but I'd rather scrap the good portrait shots separately. We also had an incident with my super melodramatic youngest who fell on his back and knocked the breath out of himself for a moment and then proceeded to wail and roll on the ground sure that he had broken both of his legs.     I don't have any photos of that, of course, but it's going to turn into a family legend so I want to give it its own page as well. All told, I will likely have one page that features the actual activity/patch photos of which there are 3-4 good ones and then will have 3-4 pages with the portraits and the "incident."

Im in the more the merrier camp. I will make 2+ pages if necessary and am also willing to use different sized inserts in between a 2 pg layout. I am older and not really a fa =n of photos smaller than 3x4 due to eyesight issues, although occasionally I do like 2x2 grids.

I also will use flip ups. I especially like adding a 6x12. 

I also use the Scrapbook Generation sketches and can find lots of fun sketches for a large number of photos!

More is better 😊

I regularly use 6-8 photos on a two page spread. I typically try to cut down the 4x6 into smaller sizes since I don't print at home.