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Selecting Photos for Slideshow
I want to produce DVDs of photos that I & others have taken of my
family over a long period of time. I have no children, so these DVDs are for families of brothers & sisters and for long time friends, including my ex-wife. The problem is not knowing which photos will interest these people. Of course, they all interest *me*. It's almost impossible to separate photos for each interest group. That is, tailoring a DVD for each group. However, there may be some photos to omit, such as friends of mine during high school and college days. I've edited these photos to avoid repetition, but even the included may lack interest. They are good, well-composed photos, so I've justified in my mind that they may be of interest for photographic reasons, alone. In other words, it's as much about my photography over the years as it is about my family & friends. At least, that's what I tell myself. I include a title clip at the beginning, briefly explaining this, & that with a DVD remote, viewers can skip whatever images fail to interest them. I just decided to include the whole damn thing. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's faced the same dilemma and how they solved it. Well, as far as that goes, I'd appreciate hearing from anyone. I'm early in the process, so I can go back & change anything easily. I just need help in defining my goal. I have a goal, but question it. |
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On May 2, 5:18 pm, One4All wrote:
I want to produce DVDs of photos that I & others have taken of my family over a long period of time. snip I just recently started to host a web-site for pictures of the extended family. I grappled with this concept also. and at first just put everything up. then i realized that doing some basic categorization would be better. so i grouped things by: date -- occasion -- all -- highlights -- bloopers -- other-people's-pictures This way folks could just check the highlights of any occasion and if they had more time/interest, they could look at everything. I make sure that every person at any particular occasion is represented at least in one picture in the Highlight grouping. Any I give all involved veto power over any pic they are in. hope this gives you some ideas on how you might improve your presentation. instead of DVD, I would suggest setting up a web site with pictures and flash movies. much more accessible, immediate and more likely to be useful to everyone. good luck...thehick |
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On May 2, 3:29 pm, thehick wrote:
On May 2, 5:18 pm, One4All wrote: I want to produce DVDs of photos that I & others have taken of my family over a long period of time. snip I just recently started to host a web-site for pictures of the extended family. I grappled with this concept also. and at first just put everything up. then i realized that doing some basic categorization would be better. so i grouped things by: date -- occasion -- all -- highlights -- bloopers -- other-people's-pictures This way folks could just check the highlights of any occasion and if they had more time/interest, they could look at everything. I make sure that every person at any particular occasion is represented at least in one picture in the Highlight grouping. Any I give all involved veto power over any pic they are in. hope this gives you some ideas on how you might improve your presentation. instead of DVD, I would suggest setting up a web site with pictures and flash movies. much more accessible, immediate and more likely to be useful to everyone. good luck...thehick Thanks, Hick I've started by proceeding in straight chronological order without any divisions in terms of time or place. I think the easiest course for me is to insert titles, such as "High School Years," "College Years," etc. That way, people can skip what doesn't interest them. I may try some other strategies. As to a website, (I'm revealing my age, now.) most of the folks don't use the Internet that much, or at least that's my perception. It's not a viable alternative at this point, & instead of blaming them, maybe I have to admit that going the Internet route is not what I want to get into at this point. But, your comment has broken the log jam for me & thank you. |
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On May 3, 5:18 am, One4All wrote:
I want to produce DVDs of photos that I & others have taken of my family over a long period of time. I have no children, so these DVDs are for families of brothers & sisters and for long time friends, including my ex-wife. The problem is not knowing which photos will interest these people. Of course, they all interest *me*. It's almost impossible to separate photos for each interest group. That is, tailoring aDVDfor each group. However, there may be some photos to omit, such as friends of mine during high school and college days. I've edited these photos to avoid repetition, but even the included may lack interest. They are good, well-composed photos, so I've justified in my mind that they may be of interest for photographic reasons, alone. In other words, it's as much about my photography over the years as it is about my family & friends. At least, that's what I tell myself. I include a title clip at the beginning, briefly explaining this, & that with aDVDremote, viewers can skip whatever images fail to interest them. I just decided to include the whole damn thing. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's faced the same dilemma and how they solved it. Well, as far as that goes, I'd appreciate hearing from anyone. I'm early in the process, so I can go back & change anything easily. I just need help in defining my goal. I have a goal, but question it. You can use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder which is very powerful and very popular now, many friends and I like it very much. It's very easy to create a customized DVD slideshow with photos and videos, and to add music, transitions, and cool pan/zoom effects and make beautiful DVD menus. Also, you can create .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .3gp movies from videos in other formats for our iPod, Zune and 3GP Cell Phones, Youtube .etc. To be important, it has great photo and video editing function that can meet all our needs. For example, you can perfect your photos with attractive frames, special mask effects, and rich Cliparts, Wordarts or Text. And it is easy to crop music to sync with slideshow. You can use the video edit function to trim the video, add the caption and frame to the video, and change the original audio with your favorite music, etc. You can download it free here http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slid...lder.php?sid=8 And a specific tutorial is here http://www.photo2vcd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1452 Some useful information such as tips to make slideshow awesome is he http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/po...ld-memory.html If you have a legal version of windows XP, you can get a free program, Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP. It can do some basic functions. It can let you do everything windows movie maker does but with photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...y/default.mspx Hope this helps! |
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"One4All" wrote in message
oups.com... The problem is not knowing which photos will interest these people. Of course, they all interest *me*. It's almost impossible to separate photos for each interest group. Think in terms of "memories." Don't just "document" what people looked like or where the went...go for great memories. That's the difference between a shot showing family members in front of something, and some of those same people enjoying that something. I'm thinking about a kid talking to Mickey Mouse at Disneyland vs. everyone posing in front of the entrance gates. (Although, those gates might be a good rememberance as well.) |
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On May 8, 12:50 am, Bobdddds wrote:
You can use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder which is very powerful and very popular now, many friends and I like it very much. It's very easy to create a customized DVD slideshow with photos and videos, and to add music, transitions, and cool pan/zoom effects and make beautiful DVD menus. Also, you can create .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .3gp movies from videos in other formats for our iPod, Zune and 3GP Cell Phones, Youtube .etc. To be important, it has great photo and video editing function that can meet all our needs. For example, you can perfect your photos with attractive frames, special mask effects, and rich Cliparts, Wordarts or Text. And it is easy to crop music to sync with slideshow. You can use the video edit function to trim the video, add the caption and frame to the video, and change the original audio with your favorite music, etc. You can download it free here http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slid...lder.php?sid=8 And a specific tutorial is here http://www.photo2vcd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1452 Some useful information such as tips to make slideshow awesome is hehttp://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/po...ld-memory.html If you have a legal version of windows XP, you can get a free program, Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP. It can do some basic functions. It can let you do everything windows movie maker does but with photos.http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...aphy/photostor... Hope this helps! Bobdddds, Thanks for your input. I'm on a Mac system, using iMovie & am happy with it. It was a steep learning curve (for me), at first, but after making one DVD, I can make more fairly easily, now that I understand the software & that can be said about any software. Actually, my difficulty relates to presenting my content, and Hick helped me a lot. It's always a case of being sensitive to your audience & I've had to separate what interests *me* from what my audience will find interesting. TheBreeze, following this, has some good observations. David |
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On May 10, 4:16 pm, "TheBreeze" wrote:
"One4All" wrote in message oups.com... The problem is not knowing which photos will interest these people. Of course, they all interest *me*. It's almost impossible to separate photos for each interest group. Think in terms of "memories." Don't just "document" what people looked like or where the went...go for great memories. That's the difference between a shot showing family members in front of something, and some of those same people enjoying that something. I'm thinking about a kid talking to Mickey Mouse at Disneyland vs. everyone posing in front of the entrance gates. (Although, those gates might be a good rememberance as well.) Points well taken. I've come to realize there are documentary family photos (This is how we all looked like then, when we were together.) and family photos that show an experience, a kind of environmental portrait & after all, isn't this what we're talking about? Portraiture? I guess it's how that portrait is taken, whether as a group or as an individual. And, it gets to your audience and its sensitivity to your efforts as a photographer, and that's where the difficulty in selecting photos lies. You can have a great portrait of a group or person, but if the audience doesn't care about the people in it, what's the use? Conversely, if your photo shows Mom & Dad standing outside the farm house in 1938, it's a keeper, as Breeze indicated. If a photo is a technical or compositional disaster, all bets are off. I think the best route is to intermingle documentaries and environmentals where possible, and above all, avoid unnecessary repetition of portraits within a short period of time. Individual portraits should be a year apart, unless the person is with a group whose members have not already appeared, or unless the person is involved in some interesting activity. Birthday parties, etc., should have no more than four photos, if that. Anyone putting together a program for others has to recognize viewers are accustomed to professional TV ads and programs, which are directed to specific audiences and that attention spans are short because of this. It should matter that they consider it's you producing the program, but, hey, they can't help it. Well, they can, but up to a point. Most of us cannot compete with the professional media. The best we can do is present our programs as amateurs, which our audiences understand, in a simple way that appeals to them. All the bells and whistles will not put Humpty Dumpty together. In short, I'm finding making DVDs for family a real *labor* of love. |
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