Newport photos to be posted in REAL TIME, as they are taken

We are going to try something a little different with our Newport show report this year.

We are going to try and post the normal 500 to 1000 photos, in REAL TIME, as they are taken, on Instagram.

These will be lower resolution, but hopefully will give a more visceral feeling of ‘being at the show’.

No need to login to Instagram or anything:

http://instagram.com/audiofederation

Or, if you prefer, you can see the photos off of the instagram tab on our facebook page:

ihttp://facebook.com/audiofederation

This might be great or this might suck. Don’t say you haven’t been warned! 🙂

[We’ll be taking hi-res photos too, just not as many as we usually do.

When we first starting doing show reports, everybody, about 5(!) sites, was taking between 10 and 50 photos, and they were usually really small in width and height.

One year we posted over 1000 photos, very large ones, and most people really liked them [and were surprised at how fast they downloaded, since that was the main fear of large photos by show reporters back-in-the-day], though there were [valid] complaints about me not labeling what was in the photos most of the time :-).

Now there are dozens of sites with large show reports from Stereophile to PartTimeAudiophile [both of whom do really nice show reports]. They don’t do ALL of the rooms like we do and they don’t have monster-sized photos, but they have raised the bar enough that I wonder if we have created a monster. 🙂

Naw, no question. Definitely a monster.

So, we’ll try and put a little fun into things this time, a little spin on our approach to show report photograph taking, and just see what happens. 🙂

Kind of hope it doesn’t suck :-).

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Now on with the show…