Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato
The easiest way to do this is via simple video programmes. I simply use the pre-installed ones on my computer or mobile phone. Like here...
You mean combining photography and music in videos ?
To be really honest, I am not a big fan of that, because of the video sizes (download traffic), would result into far too high traffic on my webpage (easily hitting the threshold / traffic limit per month) Also qualitywise, I am no friend of showing photography via videos.
It's very effective, yes - but feels to me more like a "hack", a quick & dirty version.
It sounds like a lot of "no's " from my side I am aware of that
but when it comes visual photo quality, I am very keen about keeping it at the highest possible level - like when I make real prints in the darkroom. It may or may not be an ego thing, but I just love when photoquality stands out from the crowd. I have seen to many weird "compromizes" which ultimately made the photography degraded.
The goal is still, to make the viewer really feel embedded into a journey, and counteract the impulse of "in and out" in a few seconds.
(This mindset comes from many, many photo competitions I have won in the past, 80s, 90s - where I tried to "think outside the box, in order to come up with something, that stood out).
But also from the time, in which it was indeed possible to navigate on my homepage (manually), from photo to photo,
like pages in a book, while the (flash) music was separated (in a hidden separate "frame") playing in the background - so that the viewer was able to "flip through the book from photo to the next, without interruption of the music)
This way I was able to keep the quality of the photos very high (as JPG's) and change the orientation of the image, between horizontal and vertical - without any disturbing elements in the way (black corners). It is also about being able to
change images in hindsight (e.g. correction, thing I overlooked) without having to remake the entire gallery.
Nevertheless
- it is a challenge, and the best way to solve it, is for me to dig in deeper (again), trying to solve it, by reading, studying and experimenting more about newer tech, which may give me answers how to combine slideshows with background music. It's just the music you recommended - immediate made my passion and longing to flare up wanting to do "slideshow galleries" with music.
I am still listening to Ólafur Arnalds "Improvisations"
It is spellbinding.
Thank you for your effort, Milliea
