s/o did you start scrapping with film or digital photos

I started scrapping in 2003 with a project to go back and collect photos from the '70s, 80's, 90's, to create albums for my "kids", all of whom were adults by then. I took photos from my photo albums (and a couple of boxes) and scanned & printed them for my first scrapbook albums.

My focus was to tell the story of each person's life, so I chose the photos that would do that.

Over 30 years I had collected a lot of photos, I thought. But with film photography, the number of photos of one event might be 12 or 24, depending on the size of your film. I took shots of my ds's wedding for them, and took an amazing 108 photos (3 36-exposure films).

Now with digital I can take that many photos in an afternoon of the grandkids fooling around in the basement!

I still print a lot of the photos I take, but I don't feel the need to scrap them all. I DO feel the need to scrap each event I share with my grandkids. Consequently, in 2003, I created 4 albums to showcase 20-30 years each; To commemorate the last 13 years, I have completed THIRTY albums. And the number is increasing, because at the beginning I had one scrapbook for a couple of years. Now I am filling up one for each SEASON of each year!

I started scrapbooking in 2002 with digital pictures but I can't say I ever felt like I had to scrap every picture. I did make 2 page layouts all the time back then but I didn't include every pic from an event. Now, I don't really take that many pictures so I probably scrap a higher percentage of them then I did 10-12 years ago. I haven't done too much with prints from film - but those pages don't have too many pics since we just didn't take that many.

I started scrapping around 1997-98, I didn't get my first digital camera (which was a BRICK, LOL!) until around 2001. I've probably actually scrapped more digital photos than film photos simply because the printed film photos are not as good. Once I started scrapping, my picture taking really changed for the better and I'm more motivated to scrap good photos.

Honestly, I went through the packets and packets of printed photos, and so many of them had a tiny little dot of a person right smack in the middle of this huge mass of landscape. Uh, not wasting any time or money scrapping that!

Interesting thread!

I started in 1998 with film.  I didn't go digital until 2004, I think.  

I'm not sure if it affected how many photos I scrap.  While I probably snap more, since I now have the ability to delete photos immediately, I often find that I have less photos of an event than I did when I used film.  Back then, I had to take tons to make sure I got the one(s) I really wanted.  However, since a lot of them weren't good shots, I didn't scrap them all.  Printed them, yes, but didn't scrap them.

I also find that as my kids get older, I take WAY less photos.  Obviously, that effects how many photos I scrap more than anything.  I empty my memory card every December 24 to make sure I have room for what is the busiest 2 days of picture taking in my year.  This year, I had photos on it from LAST Christmas.  That's how few photos I took this year.  Granted, I have a tablet that I use to take some pics, but still!  That's a whole lotta non picture taking that went on this year, lol.

So, basically I'm not sure if it's film vs. digital or the aging of my kids that has affected how many photos I scrap, lol.  

I started in about 2000 with film photos. I did get a digital camera around that time but it wasn't very good quality. For a few years I only scrapped vacation photos from my big overseas trips. I moved on to digital photos but still didn't scrap a lot of them. Then when my niece was born in 2013, I started to do PL albums.

Now I feel like I've gone full circle because I'm working with photos from the late 80s and early 90s from my photo albums - but am scanning and re-printing a lot of them to get smaller sizes. I agree - take loads more photos now but I certainly don't scrap them all and I only print what I want to scrap.

This year I've switched from monthly PL to a more theme-based approach using Ali Edwards Story kits and telling more stories about a mix of current and older pics.

I started scrapping in 2000 and didn't get a digital camera until 2006.
Having a finite set of prints to work with made me a lot more productive.
I didn't scrap every photo but I have a good chunk of that five year period plus lots of older photos scrapped.

Of course now it's nice to have the technology to improve a photo or crop it differently.
But that editing step means a lot of my photos will never be seen by anyone but my hard drive!!

I started "true" scrapbooking just after my Dad died in 2004. I was deemed the family historian I guess and I got all the old photos. So, film photos were my first (some very,very old film photos). I had always made photo albums with a little journaling, etc but it wasn't until then that I truly embraced the whole scrapbooking concept. Just another wonderful thing my dad "left" me. I love scrapbooking to this day. 

I have a few of the old sticky albums that I am working on converting into archival albums but I am not doing traditional scrapbooking with them. Just getting them off the sticky pages and onto cardstock. If I tried to scrapbook them all it would take forever. I have been scanning the good ones into iPhoto and may make a couple pages but that's it. I have plenty of photos from the same era in boxes so every once and awhile I'll grab those out and scrap a couple. 

I have always been pretty good about the number of photos in an album for any particular event. I never felt like they all needed to be documents...hence the many boxes of extra photos. While I didn't feel I had to include them all I also couldn't bring myself to toss them either!

I started with film photos and I was always caught up on current photos because everytime I finished a roll I got it developed right away and scrapped it.  It is easy to stay current when the most you can have is 36 prints from a roll.

When I got the digital camera I printed up everything 'just in case.'  (Whatever that means). Even crappy photos.  I never wanted to delete a single photos because God forbid something happen to one of my kids and I would have cherished the blurry photos.  Hoarder thinking.

I started in about 2003 with film and I scrapped every photo. I also saw scrapping as a fancy photo album and therefore assumed I had to include every photo (as I would have with a traditional photo album). Since I've moved to digital I take way more photos but don't scrap anywhere near all of them.

I started scrapping almost 20 years ago, so I started with film prints. I never scrapped every photo even then.

I was one of the first to buy a digital camera, at least among my friends and family. I loved that I could take as many pictures as I wanted, to hopefully get better pictures.  Digital helped me become a better photographer, but I still take a ton of photos.  I only scrap a handful here and there, but essentially the number of photos I scrap is about the same.

In response to the OP, I do think digital changed everything because it's a pain in the patuttie to print pics now! I loved getting an envelope back from the developer and I kind of just assumed I would scrap most of them and I probably scrapped 80%! Now I'm very selective about what to print AND what to scrap. 

Great question!