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  Thomz last pictures.  This is a study in soothing pictures and sounds.  I hope you will enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed making them.  UNFORTUNATELY after posting over 400 pictures and receiving only one response (I can accept critiques good or bad) I think it is time to move on to other sites. It has been my pleasure to share these pictures with all of you.  Don't forget...720hd or 1080hd and turn up the sound.
Thomz


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/d0XlBFwF0is&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/d0XlBFwF0is&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

I watched them all (four videos so far) when I found time. They were nifty -- particularly the more 3Dish ones.

However, Sockratease is mostly right; there's no way to comment on individual images, and it takes time one must find...you might want to present these videos in the movie section, as well as present individual images here.

One issue being zooms that go at a constant speed -- often through miles and miles of repetition before seeing new structures.

I've done some experiments with making zoom videos that avoid such pacing problems, by using a general-purpose keyframe interpolator that can synthesize an image of any arbitrary zoom x centered on a point P given a set of keyframes centered on P whose range of magnifications extends some way both directions about x. With a suitable ladder of keyframes, then, a zoom movie that changes speed arbitrarily, or any still image from along the way, can thus be generated.

Besides that, a color scheme that keeps changing and doing something new instead of repeating itself endlessly helps.

An example:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/j4zhqni0Rpg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/j4zhqni0Rpg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US</a>

It's not that we wish to only view one or two images, more like one or two images per user!

Your 15 minute slideshows would monopolize time to the point of not seeing other user's work as well.  The videos surely serve the purpose you state, but run contrary to getting the feedback you seem to want on imagery.