Week 7- Free photo Galleries
This week we take a look at the range of available free photo galleries. Online Journalism Review, make a comparison to determine the best for a small scale news website.
The review consisted of several web-based tools that allow photos to be uploaded and shown as a slide show to accompany other web based content.
Out of Picasa, PictureTrail, BubbleShare and SlideFlickr Google-owned Picasa proved to be the pick of the crop.
These new tools are adding to our multi-media world of journalism making imagery move readily available and in slide form a greater visual perspective can be given than one singular picture.
The comparison was based on the criteria that the slide tool would allow photos to be uploaded and embedded onto another website, be a free service that is compatible with most popular browsers.
After running these four tools through the trial, advantages and disadvantages for each arose, SlideFlickr being the better option to begin with, however after further consideration Picasa rated the best.
Perhaps most commonly used for sharing photos on forums like MySpace or Facebook, they also provide a service for journalism.
Providing a story with images this way can help the reader identify the scene without taking it out of context and in terms of citizen journalism or even photojournalism its an excellent way to share images with the world. A photojournalist slide show, A Glimpse at Korea, helps demonstrate how the bigger picture can be seen through as series of images rather that relying on one.
