steelphantom said:
I just made a short slideshow using iPhoto containing some pictures of me and my family when we went to get our annual Christmas tree. I'm amazed at how quickly iPhoto can create great slideshows! There are a few slight mishaps here and there with portrait-oriented photos, but I think it came out pretty well.
Agreed - - very nice.
[quoteAny feedback would be appreciated, especially on the photos themselves. I really enjoy taking art photos, and would like to continue to improve on my shots. I know a lot of people here, especially iGary, take some great photos, and their advice could really help.[/QUOTE]
I really liked the shot sequencing selection - - skies, then close-ups, etc. Very nice flow. Good music selection too.
What I'd suggest is to consider including a few simple titles, probably one to introduce the sequence, and then perhaps some more at the end. My basic reason for this is that today, everyone in your family knows that this is this year's tree gathering, but its all too common with family photo albums for it to survive long enough to get to the questions of "which year was this?" and "who's this with Uncle Bob in this picture?" etc.
FWIW, one of the things my Mom did before her mother died a few years ago was to take in old boxes of family photos to the nursing home...it gave the two of them something to do and talk about, and Mom's mission was to find out what familymembers were in the photo and wrote down their names on the back of the photo's, and fleshed out some more family genological history that hadn't ever been written down before. A practice highly recommended for all families, especially those with older relatives who might not be around all that much longer.
Its a YMMV if you want to also document various family members on their initial appearance, at the end, or whatever. When it comes to providing the clues to help out future family geneologists, there's almost no such thing as too much information, since you'll never know what will get lost.
-hh
