Some slideshows...

hi Edmond,
I found the images in karabakh to be very strong, but I think it would have better effect to separate the kids from the soldiers. The kids are sweet, but for me the strength is in the soldiers, but mostly, I just don’t think they make sense as a unit. Curious as to your technical specs on these, film type, shot at, filter? if you don’t mind sharing.
I also think there are many great images in Armenian Earthquake, but a tighter edit would have helped me..it’s just very long. Your interior portraits really work well, the light is beautiful. If you need to keep it that long I would have voice explaining the situation instead of music.
that’s all the time I had for watching..

Hi Erica,

Many thanks for your comments; much appreciated and thought provoking.
As for technical answers, the B/W shots are mainly on Tri-X and hand printed onto Ilford Multigrade (using a Durst enlarger and Schnieder lens). They were then scanned in on a flatbed Agfa scanner (years ago!!). No filters apart from a UV.

Cheers,

Edmond

A button to turn the music off or sound control would be good, but very nice images

Lovely work Edmond,

Soundslides are great, the london bombings go a little too quickly for my taste but content spot on. I often wonder what it takes to win the awards you’ve won, what photographers shoot outside of the ’commended ’ work – I can see now, wholly deserved. Karabakh & Armenian work excellent. Inspiring.

hi Edmond,
thanks for the techie stuff..more if you don’t mind; Leica? / lens? Do you have the litlle hood that keeps out flare?

There is something about your tones in the open light that I really like..

Gary,

I think there’s an option when I author – I’ll look into it, ta.

Hi Jason,

Many thanks on your very kind words – I’m some what embarrased!
I’ll look into the speed of the slides. Cheers.

Hi Erica,

Yup, Leica (M6 and M4-2). Lenses were 21mm elmarit, 35mm summicron and a 50mm summicron, all with hoods on.
Part of the look comes from the Schneider enlarger lens. I never managed to get the same look from the Rodenstock we had at the time.
Alas, all that’ now gone!

thanks so much – I’m debating if I should bring Leica to Poland with me, and i think your images make it a yes. It’s just that that makes 4 camera bodies , none of which share lenses. my poor back..

shouldn’t be embarrassed, there is a load of powerful work in there..

Michal,
We’re all entitled to our views and photography is so subjective that I don’t think there is a right or wrong! My whole reason for exploring this is that so many of the papers are now trying to implement multimedia on their web sites, in my opinion its the way to go; I’d much rather do slideshows than be asked to shoot video! I’d love to see what you mean so either post a link here or PM me please.

Erica, my embarrasment was caused by the very kind words :-)
4 different camera systems – ouch! I guess it depends what you’re going to be shooting. I really miss using my Leicas as I’m now totally digital, but given the choice, I’d definitely shoot with them.

Wow, stunning stuff. Really like the technique too. It is a very interesting method. However, the only downsides I see is that firstly, one has to shoot with that being the fnished product in mind and that it is a very time and labour intensive method. Soundslides is useful for a normal shooting of a story and takes minutes to do.
I think that both systems although similar, are also worlds apart, and there is a place for both.
Many thanks for sharing!

Hi Ed,

Nice stuff man! I read somewhere some research that says people responded better to slideshows than video on newspapers, so it seems a bit odd that newspapers are scrambling to get wiv da video (a lot of which isn’t very good) when they could use their already highly trained photographer pool more effectively.

Soundslides is great for quick news stuff, and the new Soundslides Pro has the Ken Burns effect and even a video output plugin.

I think due to time pressure, we haven’t really explored even the capabilities of Soundslides yet though. There are all kinds of hacks, tweaks and transition manipulations to play with.

One of my personal favourites is this promo on the Apple Computer site.

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/washingtonpost/

Tellingly, it’s about the Washington Post, who are going great guns with video, but the promo is a ‘slideshow’ made from stills.

It’s really slick man.

Apparently the stills were shot by LS member Andrew Cutraro, so it would be great to know how it was done – whether it was pulled together in the edit, shot specifically to some kind of storyboard, or a combination of both.

Hey Sion,
Good to hear you’re out of that contraption!
Thanks for your kind words and the link. I think I’m finally at the stage where I’ve given in and beginning to embrace all this audio / video stuff!
What do you (or anyone else reading the post) use as far as sound recorders, mics and video cameras use??

Thanks for the links Michal; quite interesting. Ta.