Create a slideshow of your photos
Sunday 19 July 2026, 20:10 by Nando Harmsen | 1,912 views | 20 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Have you been travelling or on holiday? Have you made a lovely day trip, or are you proud of a whole series of photos on a particular subject? Show your photos. A slideshow is a great way to do this.
I have just returned from a photo trip to Iceland. You may not have missed that. As well as guiding the participants, I also took photos myself. Naturally, I would like to show them.
You can put them on a website. Then you have to ask everyone to come and have a look. They have to go to the website, find the right series of photos and browse through them. Click...click...click...
You could also post one or more photos on social media every day for the next six months. But after a week, the novelty may already have worn off. It is not easy to keep people interested for that long.
A slideshow might be a good alternative. Select a large number of your best photos and turn them into a presentation. You can do this with all kinds of software, sometimes even free software.
Don't show photos for too long. Three seconds is often enough. Five is quickly too long. Use gentle transitions and some nice music in the background, preferably music that is free of copyright restrictions.
Have you added a title and an ending with, for example, a link to your social media or website? Then the video can go online. On YouTube or on social media. Don't make the slideshow much longer than four or five minutes.
I have of course made a slideshow of my Iceland photos. You can see it in this article. It is a selection of photos of landscapes and animals. If you want to show many more photos, you can also split them into several videos.
Let my slideshow inspire you. Either to go on a trip with me in 2027 or 2028, or to present your photos in a similar way.
About the author
Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.
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20 comments
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Jan Hoevenaars wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 10:58 | replyWhich program did you use for slideshows? Does it also display images in 4K?
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G.H.Heijne wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 10:59 | replywHICH PROGRAM DO YOU USE FOR THAT?
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guest wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 11:11 | replyBeautiful images Nando, in a beautiful slideshow!!
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Hans wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 13:06 | reply3 seconds is really too fast for people seeing the photos for the first time the image is gone before you have properly looked at the essence of the subject, 5 seconds is better, then just have fewer photos in the presentation.
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Doede Douma wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 15:17 | replyBeautiful shots of the magnificent Creation in Iceland. Very beautiful too, the birds compared to their surroundings. Small in the vast expanse.
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Jef Limet wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 19:42 | replyI really expected to get a reference to good free and paid (price/quality) examples.
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Unfortunately. I don't know any good and/or free slideshow programs. But Google is your best friend.
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I don't use a 'slideshow program' but a video editing program.
In this case Adobe Premiere Pro.
If I don't use that, I use Davinci Resolve.
Below is a comment in which the Faststone program is used. Maybe that's something for you? -
Bob Rodenburg wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 19:46 | replyI’m invited to give my opinion and I can be brief: what a beautiful series! A nice mix of landscape and wildlife. It makes me want to go there too sometime. Where can I find info about your Iceland trips in the future?
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Henk Donkers wrote on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 22:49 | replyI often do it after a trip too. I use the simple photo program FastStone for this. Small and free program. I use it not only to manage my entire photo collection, but you can do a great deal with it. Among other things, make a slideshow. Absolutely everything can be adjusted and you can also add music to it. I don't own any shares in the company, but I do think it's highly recommended for this job.
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Paul eos wrote on Wednesday 22 July 2026 at 08:53 | replyA beautiful slideshow with very beautiful photos Nando.
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But, if you had made short film clips, the experience for the viewers would in my opinion have been even more exciting. A bird in flight, with food, a field of flowers with a moving insect, moving clouds, I look forward to you doing that sometime. The tips you gave for a slideshow also apply to videos. -
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That's right. Adding video makes the whole thing richer.
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However, that requires a completely different approach on location. Video takes much more time and energy. Ideally, a shooting script. Sound, the right tripod...
This doesn't work if you're a travel/photography guide.
Moreover, you can only cover one subject then:landscapes or birds, but not both. Otherwise it won't be a 5-minute film but a 50-minute film.
I did that here. Although I didn't have the right tripod with me... It took me three days of video recording.
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Peter Bader wrote on Wednesday 22 July 2026 at 09:42 | replyHi Nando,
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Rob wrote on Thursday 23 July 2026 at 11:31 | replyI often just use iMovie for creating slideshows on the iMac. Alternatives are Lightroom. Or the paid FotoMagico.
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When I still had a Windows PC I was absolutely a fan of Magix's software, which unfortunately doesn't work on an Apple. -
Trudy wrote on Thursday 23 July 2026 at 15:49 | replyWhat beautiful photos, Nando, and I would almost say: Finally another photographer who shows his photos as a video. I believe that photographers should also start showing their work in the form of a video (read: story).
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Of the photos I shoot during our camper trips, I have been making videos since last year. By means of a 'voice-over' I provide information about what the viewer is looking at and I also add music. My goal is also to start adding 'live footage'.
I first edit my photos in Affinity Photo; then, using the Apple Keynote program, I first create the basic presentation and subsequently export it to Final Cut Pro. When I have mastered FCP better, I want to start putting the photos directly into FCP.
After this I put the video on my channel on YouTube, but I did not have a nice experience there, because for unclear reasons the channel was removed after a short period.
I have now moved to PeerTube (a European alternative) and am first seeing how that goes.
I think it is difficult for photographers to show their work on YouTube.
I think many viewers no longer have the patience to look at still images, no matter how beautiful and impressive photos are. Nevertheless, I hope that more photographers will start telling their 'photo story'.
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