Phun with Photographs
Before the internet explosion (aka: the dark ages) photography was a different endeavor. There were only a few ways to showcase your work: galleries (good luck!), publications (weekly newspaper – easy, daily newspapers – difficult, magazines – good luck again) , advertising (very difficult), stock (starvation for decades), and the wedding-portrait business, to name a few. Today, the situation is much different. Google “photographic gallery,” and you get about 310,000 hits in less than a second!
Today the only limit is the photographer’s imagination, and his or her skill with the camera and one or more pieces of software. What a cool time to be a photographer! The new age of photographic artistry has arrived.
One of the fun things that I’ve been involved with in the last few months has been the production of still image videos. We used to call them slide shows but that term brings back too many memories of Uncle John’s slides of Arizona cacti. Now we make (much more exciting) multimedia videos! I like this one that I produced today, of Sheila: http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1297976215&f=s7Zgw98FTR82EqXrxgpuzA&d=90&m=p&r=240p+480p&start_res=480p&i=m&ct=www.pzphoto.com&cu=http://www.pzphoto.com&options=
I hope that you enjoyed it. I had a blast producing it.
