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Hedgetrimmer

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Photography and Music
« on: 12:32:20, 18/10/16 »
I spend quite a bit of time looking through my photos of the places I have been, and it's nice to have some music playing in the background. I usually try to play something that I feel enhances the experience of viewing my shots in slideshows I have compiled.
The one artist whose music I feel really fits is a chap by the name of Tony McManus, who having started out doing a degree in mathematics, abandoned that path for the then very uncertain alternative of making his living as a professional guitarist, specialising in Celtic tunes - doubly risky, as such tunes were never written with the guitar in mind, but it has become quite a thing among folk guitarists today. He then went on to receive the ultimate accolade from one John Rebourn: "The best celtic guitarist in the world", by his reckoning, and my humble self is inclined to agree!


Do you have a favourite music to accompany your photographic memories of trips and places you have been?

Dovegirl

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Re: Photography and Music
« Reply #1 on: 20:41:49, 18/10/16 »
No, I don't have a soundtrack when I look at photos from my walks but if I did it would be the music of birdsong, a tinkling stream, waves on the shore  :)

Hillhiker1

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Re: Photography and Music
« Reply #2 on: 22:12:08, 18/10/16 »
No, I don't have a soundtrack when I look at photos from my walks but if I did it would be the music of birdsong, a tinkling stream, waves on the shore  :)


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Mel

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Re: Photography and Music
« Reply #3 on: 22:27:59, 18/10/16 »
I don't have a favourite soundtrack but I'd like to choreograph (if that's the right word) the pictures from a walk to music.  It would depend on the walk and my mood as to what the music was ... could range from classical to heavy rock!

barewirewalker

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Re: Photography and Music
« Reply #4 on: 16:17:58, 19/10/16 »
I used a slide show software called Proshow, it allowed me to put slides together with different transitions and to soundtracks. Some years ago after a couple of days on Snowndon, I spent a day exploring the quarries. Lots of interesting photos especially a series of a broken winding cable, sections of incline and a curious graveyard in the quarry. I set them up to the theme tune of Inspector Morse, a quite haunting refrain which seemed to go rather well with the implied mystery of the shots. It was a rather glowering february day, quite atmospheric, I think I shall have to try and dig it out and play it again.
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Mel

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Re: Photography and Music
« Reply #5 on: 01:24:20, 21/10/16 »
Cheers BWW - I'll have a look into Proshow  O0

 

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