Every day ABC News devotes an entire section of its homepage to promoting slideshows. Similarly, nearly every page of the website has its own photography section. Some webpages feature multiple slideshows.
I found the pictures of Typhoon Nalgae to be the most effective out of the five featured news slideshows. The topic of these photographs seem much more newsworthy than the others. The photographs selected truly captured the wrath of the storm.
The most effective use of photography on the investigative page was used in the Look-Alike Drugs slideshow. It is always a good idea to show a photograph when writing about things that physically look similar. I feel that without the photos, this story wouldn't be very successful. It would just be a list of prescription names that no one can pronounce. The other slideshows, however, could exist as effective stories without the added photography. That is to say, the photos didn't create anything new.
Two slideshows stood out to me in the entertainment section: Fashion Week and Hollywood Beach Bodies. These presentations were much more useful and efficient than the others. Most people can read a celebrity's name and visualize their face, so a slideshow such as "Famous September Birthdays" appears a bit unnecessary. However, with a slideshow such as Fashion Week featuring before and after pictures, it seems insane not to include photographs.
Only two slideshows were featured on the website's technology page, but both of them were great. The Amazing Animals slideshow looked like it should be on Ripley's Believe It or Not! rather than ABC News. Similarly, the Photos From the Final Frontier provided fascinating images of space that most people have probably never seen. This slideshow featured exciting photography that was unique and colorful. The pictures also helped explain the topic better than text alone could have.
ABC News seems to understand how to cater to every news consumer by featuring a wide variety of topics. I would guess the news source focuses heavily on photography because it knows many online-readers prefer to look at images than read articles. I found it interesting that that the technology page had very little photography coverage compared to other categories. This is especially interesting because the two featured technology slideshows suited their purpose much more effectively than the five featured slideshows on the news, investigative and entertainment pages.
I found the pictures of Typhoon Nalgae to be the most effective out of the five featured news slideshows. The topic of these photographs seem much more newsworthy than the others. The photographs selected truly captured the wrath of the storm.
The most effective use of photography on the investigative page was used in the Look-Alike Drugs slideshow. It is always a good idea to show a photograph when writing about things that physically look similar. I feel that without the photos, this story wouldn't be very successful. It would just be a list of prescription names that no one can pronounce. The other slideshows, however, could exist as effective stories without the added photography. That is to say, the photos didn't create anything new.
Two slideshows stood out to me in the entertainment section: Fashion Week and Hollywood Beach Bodies. These presentations were much more useful and efficient than the others. Most people can read a celebrity's name and visualize their face, so a slideshow such as "Famous September Birthdays" appears a bit unnecessary. However, with a slideshow such as Fashion Week featuring before and after pictures, it seems insane not to include photographs.
Only two slideshows were featured on the website's technology page, but both of them were great. The Amazing Animals slideshow looked like it should be on Ripley's Believe It or Not! rather than ABC News. Similarly, the Photos From the Final Frontier provided fascinating images of space that most people have probably never seen. This slideshow featured exciting photography that was unique and colorful. The pictures also helped explain the topic better than text alone could have.
ABC News seems to understand how to cater to every news consumer by featuring a wide variety of topics. I would guess the news source focuses heavily on photography because it knows many online-readers prefer to look at images than read articles. I found it interesting that that the technology page had very little photography coverage compared to other categories. This is especially interesting because the two featured technology slideshows suited their purpose much more effectively than the five featured slideshows on the news, investigative and entertainment pages.