Royalty Free Music

If you’re going to publish your slideshows online on where they’re publicly accessible you have to use royalty free or copyright free music, otherwise you may be liable for copyright violation.

Catherine Easton has been doing our camera club slideshows and since COVID they’ve been posted to the club’s YouTube channel. When asked where she was finding the music, she said:


I did a google search on the subject of Royalty Free and Copyright Free music — and lots of sites come up.  These are two that I’ve explored and downloaded some tracks:  

  • Mixkitwhich, in addition to free music, provides stock video clips, sound effects, and video templates
  • Bensoundwhich provides hundreds of royalty free songs in categories including acoustic, folk, cinematic, corporate, pop, electronica, urban, groove, jazz. rock, and world.

You have to be prepared to spend an hour or two researching the various pieces of music — there is a reason why some of it hasn’t made the “top 100 list”.    However,  I’ve managed to get a collection of a dozen or so pieces that should keep me going for the 2020/2021 season of slide shows.

Catherine Easton

DIY Slideshows

We’re starting a series of posts on how to make your own slideshows in hopes than more club members will be inspired to submit slideshows to share at our meetings like the one Debbie and Catherine shared at our December meeting.

The guidelines are here and there’s a (slightly out of date) post here.

We’ll be providing information on how to find royalty free music, on making slideshows with Windows, and with Apple devices.

Stay tuned…

Cityscapes/Urbanscapes/Landscapes Slideshow Now Online

Because we’re still meeting online in December, we are sharing the slideshow of images from our October Cityscapes/Urbanscapes/Landscapes challenge online.

In order to view the slideshow full screen, please click Play (above) then on the word YouTube or click on this link.

Thanks again to Catherine Easton for creating this slideshow of our images.

Street Photography Slideshow Now Online

Because we’re still meeting online in November, we are sharing the slideshow of images from our October Street Photography challenge online.

In order to view the slideshow full screen, please click Play (above) then on the word YouTube or click on this link.

Thanks again to Catherine Easton for creating this slideshow of our images and for her patience in dealing with all the technology challenges involved.

Black and White Photography Slideshow Now Online

Because we’re still meeting online in October, we are sharing the slideshow of images from our September Black and White Photography challenge online.

In order to view the slideshow full screen, please click Play (above) then on the word YouTube or click on this link.

Thanks again to Catherine Easton for creating this slideshow of our images and for her patience in dealing with all the technology challenges involved.

Please accept our apologies for displaying the wrong slideshow during the meeting. The version we played cropped some of the images. The above slideshow displays the images as submitted by our club members.

Member’s Corner – Request for Member Submissions

This is a call to all KSCCC members to submit short slide shows or videos of their work for presentation to the KSCCC membership at one of our monthly meetings.

We are looking for either images, slide shows or videos that you have put together on a theme that you would like to show to the club members.  These presentations should run for between two and four minutes and can include a sound track with a voice over and / or background music.  A good rule of thumb is that each slide should be shown for no more than around 7 seconds, excluding any transitions.  If you wish you can include a picture of yourself at the end of the presentation, so people can identify who you are.

Please resize your images so that they are a maximum of 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high.   Any videos submitted should also adhere to these same maximum dimensions.   If you are submitting images, rather than a prepared slide show or video, please the following naming convention to ensure that the images are shown in the correct order:

ImageNumber PresentationName by Photographer Name.jpg

for example:

  • 01 Winter by John Doe.jpg
  • 02 Winter by John Doe.jpg
  • 03 Winter by John Doe.jpg

Please send your submissions to:  contact@ksccc.ca