On 16/5/10, Boris , discombobulated, unleashed: >> Actually, it is not *that* hard. Not this time. I simply was driving >> to work on the next day after having returned home and was listening >> to this music. At the time I thought it was somehow befitting my >> general mood or state of mind during my trip, and so I thought I might >> as well put some photographs to it. >> >> But since you're the second person who said that the sound wasn't good >> enough, I'd like to ask you what made you turn the sound off? You can >> reply off list if you wish. Though may be your opinion will be >> valuable to others as well.
Of course, it's all down to individual taste - much as the appreciation of a photograph. The music sounded chintzy and very low quality - not technical quality - rather the quality of the piece. It is basically elevator music. But as I say, you get what you pay for and indeed if you don't pay at all, then that's even worse ;-) The quality of the photographs far outstrips the quality of the music - the music (far from complimenting the photographs) actually detracts from them (all of this in my humble opinion). Viewing photographs with music attached becomes a personal choice - for instance, I'd much rather look at something with the Doves blasting away in my lobes than, or maybe nothing at all. When one chooses music to impose of a viewer, one has to be very careful in selection - simply choosing something 'that will do' is not good enough - and can (as I say) detract from the experience. However - that said - it is very difficult to choose copyright-free music of a decent quality and suitability from (say) the internet. Which is why most people will just grab their favourite high quality music by famous artists and bung it up onto Youtube. In this case, most choices are good - because the quality of the piece of music is excellent (by commercial artists - well most of them!). Of course, you might think that a copyright-free piece of music is perfectly good - and that's fine because I have a volume button :-) If you're putting together an AV presentations professionally or don't mind spending a few groats on music in an amateur capacity, there are plenty of low-cost options on the net. The one I use exclusively is AKM: <http://www.akmmusic.co.uk/index.php> because they have a consistently good hit rate of keepers. HTH Boris and take it all with a pinch of salt. You know that you should make things just for yourself and if someone else likes it also, too bad ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
