The Herald-Mail Photography deptartment started producing slideshows for our website in late 2007, we only made a few that year, but they have grown in number and quality ever since. They are a series of still photographs set to an audio track and together they really bring the viewer to an event or story far better than the printed page ever could.
Slideshows on the web give photographers the space to stretch out photographically and display almost an unlimited number of images, in the order and duration they choose, to help tell a story or part of a story without the limitations of shrinking space in the print edition, reproduction flaws of the press, and that all too familiar one day shelf life that newspapers suffer from. Viva La Web!!!!
The Herald-Mail story link is here. A link to my slideshow is here.
The slideshows take more time to shoot, collect audio, edit and tone the photos, edit audio, and then assemble the slideshow itself, but when it all comes together and you click on that little triangle shapped PLAY button, you remember why you became a news photographer... to tell other people's story.
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