I spent the past week visiting my girlfriend and somefriends in London, taking well over a thousand photos and collecting a little bit of sound.
I figured that rather than subject friends and family to my voluminous photo collection of Oliver Cromwell’s death mask and creepy dead things plundered collected from other countries, I’d distill my photos into a quick slideshow.
This slideshow is a variation on my 12 Hours in Photos Series, bringing roughly 700 photos – many of them taken in burst sequences – together with some natural sound from a St. Patrick’s Day parade near Trafalgar Square, street noise on Edgware Road and the sound of Big Ben just after midnight.
It’s not the best slideshow I’ve ever produced – but hey, I was on vacation. Feel free to browse some select shots over at my Flickr page.
All photos were shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSI using the kit EF-S 18-55mm and EF 50mm f/1.8 lenses. Sound recorded with a Zoom H2 Handy Recorder.
I took advantage of the nice weather today to study for my French exam shoot some photos and collect some sound at the Wentworth Farm Conservation Area near my house in Amherst, Mass.
The result was the best panorama I’ve put together so far (click to enlarge) and a mediocre Soundslides project.
The panorama is a roughly-150-degree view of the pond near Wentworth Farm. In between shooting photos I grabbed a bunch of natural sound – nothing too interesting: footsteps on grass and mud, a plane overhead, the sound of rushing water – and compiled it into this slideshow.
I must say I don’t like the way Soundslides displays photo sequences taken on the burst setting as much as I have with similarslideshows I’ve made with iMovie, but for stories that really make use of captions and feature the standard three-minute, 18 frame formula, Soundslides is still far superior.
I added a Zoom H2 Handy Recorder to my arsenal recently, and I’ve been bothering my two engineering-major roommates, Sean and James, about how to use it effectively.
