Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have seen ten years worth of slide shows about 4 a year at the LHSA meetings and plenty of guys and gals pulled out additional trays. But kept it moving. I agree with the 30 second occasional explanation. 80 slides in an hour is not a lot of slides that's one every 45 seconds. Way too long a time. Way too slow a pace. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Emanuel Lowi <manolito at videotron.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:09:28 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation? > > > I'm totally with Rabiner on this one. > > People aren't interested in really looking at a picture more than 10-30 > seconds, but if there's a truly amazing story to be told related to the > picture, that 30 second interval is do-able. > > So it depends on how good a talker you are. Ask someone who will tell you > the truth. Don't judge that for yourself. > > I am a bit of a raconteur so I sometimes stretch the per picture on-screen > time a little. It's gotta be like jazz syncopation, though, some longer, > some shorter, in an unpredictable pattern. And the pictures have to deserve > that extra time. > > But pictures moving on at a good clip and that speak for themselves (one > being worth a thousand words) is a better idea. > > In short, you can't easily have too many pictures, provided they are really > good pictures. Be ruthless about picture selection. > > You can easily have too few pictures and very easily end up talking too > much. > > My suggestion is that the old Kodak standard of an 80-slide Carrousel is a > good starting point. Practice and see if it works. > > Save the tech talk for the Q&A and maybe return to a very few selected > shots > for that. > > Emanuel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information