Originally Posted by
r.e.
The thing is, this isn't a simple problem.
People who want an audience for their videos will accept that they're in the business of making moving images accompanied by sound. This is not consistent with a slide show of still photographs. Also, unless still photos are made at, or cropped to, an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (aka 16:9) in the case of YouTube, every photograph in the video will be framed by black bars. Typically, camera movement in the form of a zoom or pan is used to introduce movement in a still photograph and to address the aspect ratio problem. The result of this technique is that the photo is not seen in its entirety. The compromise for people who make videos about photography is to show the photograph briefly. The viewer can pause the video and look at the photo as long as he/she wants.
This video weds an interview with the photographer Mitch Epstein to what is basically a slide show of his photographs. For what it is, I think that it's quite well done. Technically, it's dead simple to make a video like this, much simpler than making the kind of video that you have reservations about. The problem is that the format generates limited audience interest. In the 16 months that this video has been on YouTube, it has had 146 views:
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