My idea, and I am sure someone is doing this all ready, but to take that movie that is created either the time-lapse or the series of shots one wants and selling them in a digital frame any size I guess. I figure the image would be safe cause it will be in a movie file and not as a individual image and sound can be added for effect.

Lots of people like waterfalls but like the sound as well.

Is this a waste of time idea or something worth trying. Digital frames can be pretty expensive for higher resolutions but not to bad at lower resolutions.

Oh well just thinking out loud, would love feedback if you have any.

markosphoto

MJ Mitchell

RQ Trietsch

Go for it..Sounds awsome..

APHOTO4YOU

I say that because the future of Photography is the merging of video and single shot images... Look at the still shot cameras coming out with video abilities and look at camcorders that allow you to print a frame off the video images . They eventually want to merge the two into one... you will be able to print a high qauality image off your viedo images...

But back to your question.. if you have a interesting time lapse series.. and it is priced right, I see no reason why it would not work for you.. SEE there is the rainbow out of the down side of you not having a job right now.. You get to read all of this stuff and realize it faster in a shorter time frame.. I wish you luck on it..

Gary Glass

Gary, thats the hard part, getting interesting time-laps, I have to figure out when to concentrate on the time laps, it might mean missing "the shot" or visa versa. I guess I will feel my way through that.

On the worrying about stealing frames, I don't see that as an issue cause if I go the 800x600 route it won't matter much. I might contact some frame makes, but I want to get a group of these movies done before I do that.

Would it be best to put the movie in the frame myself and let the user put there own images in the frame as well, cause that is what will happen...

The price will be the cost of the frame plus the cost of the image. It is cool cause I can manipulate the images in the series...saturation and other things before I create it. That could yield some interesting things, but in turn it will be much more work, cause of the multiple images need to match in some way to make it look good.

The other thing I was thinking was to take say a group of flower images and make a frame with a flower slideshow with perhaps the sounds of spring/summer.

Thanks you guys for the input. Bianca, Mr Gates didn't create anything, he bought DOS and sold it to IBM, he was a master marketer though, somehow convinced the world that DOS and Windows 3.1 (dos shell) was better than a Mac and I am a fan of Windows to this day. That is a good point cause the first computers were probably built in a garage... like the Apple computers.

markosphoto

Bottom line, if you have something that is eye candy for the viewer.. They will come.... as long as the price point is within their means... we have all been there on that point when selling products...LOL

Keep me in the loop, would love to see how it is progressing for you.. sounds like something down the line I wouldn't mind trying... when I learn all that stuff.. I still have to decide on lightroom version to go for...

Gary Glass

I would wait for 3.0... it is faster at least the beta is over Lightroom 2. I will have to wait on buying the upgrade cause I can't afford it right now, I will probably download the trial when it comes out. I haven't converted my catalogs over to 3 cause it is a beta and it is prone to errors. I should mention that it lets you put your catalog as a shared file so it can be used between multiple computers which is nice cause I have it installed on my notebook (which I use sometimes to tag images) but I have to export those images to a shared folder then import them when they copy over to my desktop, now I won't need to do that, at least from what I read about that feature.

That time-lapse to movie thing isn't technical cause you use a plugin that comes with lightroom or is downloadable now... and use lightroom's slide show tab, its actually quite easy, just taking the images and editing those is more difficult.

markosphoto

I've seen at Target for example a section where they have these nature CD's next to the small electric portable waterfalls, and it's so relaxing to just stay in there for a minute listening to soothing sounds and some celtic or ethereal music playing in the background, now if you have the images and music without the messy waterfall spilling, lol well, that would be very kewl.

Someone did give me one of those portable little waterfalls for my desk but it kept spilling over and it runs out of batteries so fast, it was unnerving so it defeated the "relaxing" purpose. Maybe the electric one was better lol

Minerva Bloom

It's not a slideshow- it's video pieces from photos, video clips and music into one. Anyway, check it out for ideas.

http://animoto.com/photography

Minerva Bloom

Thank you though :)

markosphoto

My problem is a 10 in frame meaning 10 inch LCD cost about $130, there is a 15 in but I didn't see the cost of that one. Why would someone want to spend that much for something like what I was talking below?

I obviously can't buy pallets of these things for cheaper... I wouldn't make a lot per sale of these, would it be worth the extra effort. Would someone rather have a 7 in one for next to there bed or the 15 in.

They come with remotes to pause or to stop sound so thats nice. I wish I could sell larger ones but 17 inch is the largest I have seen of these things.

markosphoto

maybe what you could do is sell your images//slide shows on a usb plug device that one can plug into those frames.. that way you can make a profit and they can buy the frames however they want and just plug in your creative work...

That is how I would go about it until you can somehow get the unit price cost down on the frames.. That is one of the reasons I don't sell framed prints that much anymore.. Gets too expensive unless you own your own framing buisness or want to invest into making your own frames.. I prefer to sell just the prints or prints with matting..

Gary Glass

ohh wow you guys got a good going here. Keep brainstorming.

What about those memory sticks? what if you were to sell your slides with them and people stick them literally wherever they want/need them? They would be even easier to send by snail mail because they're small and light.

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Gary Glass

If I do this it will be 7 in frames, those don't cost alot.

markosphoto

That is right, they do take cards.. I had only looked at them a bit a year ago.. I too felt they were too expensive and was waiting for the price to come down.. well you could always load of a card ,same as a usb.. just need a way to keep from folks sharing it or something , so you don't lose potential profit for your endeavor..

Gary Glass

markosphoto