Sunday, December 16, 2007
Digital Storytelling with Photographs
A good photograph tells a story. A collection or series of good photographs can tell a story, too. I became interested in digital storytelling after I attended my first workshop almost 5 years ago. Here are some digital storytelling links that might help you get started:
Examples of Digital Stories
Jeff Curto's Digital Storytelling web page is a good starting place. I thought Fish and Pictures would be particularly interesting to photographers.
Take some time to tour through Daniel Meadows Photobus website. He has wonderful stories and photographs.
Flickr's group Tell a Story in 5 Frames (Visual Storytelling) provides guidelines towards the bottom of their group page that you might find helpful.
Digital Storytelling Resources
Great podcast with guidelines, a little over 60 minutes long The Digital Photography Show #47: How to Tell a Story in Pictures with Bobbi Lane
The Digital Storytelling Cookbook provides the ingredients and a recipe for creating a digital story. Some links are broken, but it's still a good resource.
The Center for Digital Storytelling emphasizes personal voice. Examples and resources.
Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps leads you through the process step by step.
Don't be fooled. The Adobe Digital Kids Club web page is not just for kids...
Cog Dog Roo lists 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story. Good ideas for getting started.
A great example of a storyboard from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook.
A blank storyboard template with 10 frames from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook.
A simple three-square storyboard.
Time-lapsed movies and slideshows
YouTube movie of time-lapse Executive Portraits photo shoot
YouTube movie of night sky Hiawassee Sky All Night
Click "view as slideshow" to see my own Time-lapsed Amaryllis opening
Software for Slideshows
Microsoft's PhotoStory
Picasa
Faststone Photo Viewer
Windows MovieMaker
Apple's iMovie
Brandywine River Valley
Had a great trip through the Brandywine River Valley in Pennsylvania and Delaware this weekend. I try to keep my camera ready while riding in the car. I got this shot through the passenger window (I was not driving). During our tour through one of the museums, one person kept describing the local landscape as bucolic. Seems to fit...
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