Funny that most of the voices seem to be American accents. Why is this do you think?

Best,

Charles

photography has new venues for showing work.. thats all..
most of what is called “MM” has been around for yonks.. as “slideshow with sounds”.. the new venue to show the work has made it more prevelent of course.. easier to do and show.

when video is thrown in it seems much of what is called MM becomes what might once have been called a documentary.. thinking of “darkness visable” by seamus murphy on media storm..

working up an end result is paramount – whatever it’s called in the end is academic.. whatever trends are building now may stay or go, to be defined later.. once upon a time myspace was here to stay, and now it’s facebook.. who cares what it’s called – content is king.

i guess it all starts differently for all of us. for me it starts with still images..
it’s always been the case that editing for slideshow, exhibition or print is different.. now we have editing / producing for the internet as well.
sa’ll fresh with the internet, although things seem to be settling into themselves in many ways for many photographer / producers.

anyway.. gotta go – work.
well done john .. hope to see you again soon in the near future and looking forward to hearing your next story is underway.

stay well
d

I love this! I love the very first sentence I heard… “you just came here for an argument”…From then on it only got better.. Fantastic imagery and sound and I love the bits you chose to highlight…I am for all forms, the pictorial alone, the pictorial and the written but I love the pictorial, the written and audio all in one…Its a really really hard thing to master and I really think you have done a fabulous job…

Well done and its inspired me to keep working on the environmental piece I am doing… sometimes seeing something like this pushes you forward so thanks for that!

Perhaps, but it’s complicated. One could make a reasonable argument that people generally prefer to look at moving images, hence film and television are far more popular than newspapers and magazines these days. But Michael Kircher makes a good point that outside of television most of the pictures we see on a daily basis, both on the web and in the analog world, are still images. Websites and outdoor advertising are rife with still images. And considering these tend to be extremely commercial businesses, no doubt market research shows that still images continue to sell. I don’t know how representative of the general populace I am (usually not very), but I hate it when internet video pops up unbidden on a site and do everything I can to avoid it. Choice, however, is something else again and the fact that sites are integrating more and more video supports the notion that people like, if not prefer, moving images. YouTube is very, very popular.

Image creation, however, is something else again. Everywhere I look, whether I’m in the big city or small town, I just about everybody is taking still photographs all the time. On my Facebook feed, I think my non-photographer friends post more images than the photographers. And I hear sites like Flikr are very popular as well.

I suspect a big part of that has to do with required skills and technology. It’s very easy these days to snap a decent photo on your phone or camera. Viewing, printing, or uploading to the web requires no expensive software or super powerful computer. Changing the look with programs like Instagram is easy as pie.

Video, on the other hand, is much more difficult. It requires more skill to capture decent video. Editing, even with a relatively simple program like IMovie, is much more difficult than applying simple manipulations to still images. Serious editing requires serious computing power and expensive, difficult to master, applications. Getting it in a viewable format requires all of the above plus arcane knowledge of codecs. Adding audio opens up a whole nother bag of worms. And then it requires decent bandwidth to view it.

Of course these things are getting much easier. Computers are more powerful, services like YouTube ease the codec issues, but the camera will always need to be held steady and the pans will always need to be fluid and that will never be as easy as snapping a photo on the camera phone. So I think it’s safe to say that still images will rule most people’s individual worlds, whether they would choose that or not, for a long time to come, if not forever.

BILL. Wish there was something I could do to help man, seems unfair. Each new party in power over here dismantles a little bit more of the health system. Wont be too long before we have insurance based health care here too.

You get them from me. I just assumed they were all too lousy for words and you were chucking them down the digital toilet. The computer’s probably sending them all, mine and several million other people’s, to the old Road Trips blog where no one would think of looking for them. ;-)