TL;DR: What FLOS-software do you know that allows adding narration to your photos? I don’t mean classic desktop publishing or making movies from the pictures, but something in between. I was thinking about using reveal.js but it is not very much suited to pure photography slide shows with interleaved text (e.g. sometimes between 2 photos, sometimes as an overlay etc.). However, if this is the most suitable solution I will dig deeper into it. On the other hand there is adobe slate, which is more an article like form but interesting as well. I search for something where the pictures are in the focus, and everything else steps back a little. It should be responsive enough to make for a good full screen presentation but is not tied to the slide format (I mean something like slate is interesting for me too). But it should not need a server.
When I was young, below 10, back in the 80’s, some people of our family, mainly my uncle and my father, made a slide show from time to time. My uncle told about his visits to the US (this was a big deal back then, at least for me), when he was visiting his emigrated daughter, showed how they live, the nature, the cities, and told little anecdotes. My father used to show pictures of his visits to Ireland (he loved that country, even without having any formal English education at all he made friends there), and he had as well many anecdotes to tell. Somehow these shows influenced me a lot. I loved them for several reasons, the stories, the interesting foreign regions and, as well, the technical side of the slide projection. Nowadays, I love visiting “professional” multimedia presentations from people that travel, or about nature etc. We even have a festival for such shows (http://www.weitsicht-darmstadt.de/).
Preparing a simple slide show on the computer is not difficult anymore. To meet the requirements of those shows of my family back in the 80’s I would guess libreoffice or even a simple image viewer is enough. But I think a lot about possibilities to add narration to my pictures in a different, more permanent way. E.g. in an article-like way or as slide show with interleaved text either as overlay or as extra slides. But something where the photos are in the focus, and what is visually appealing. See the first paragraph for a better description.
From reveal.js I like that it can be exported to PDF and that it is responsive enough to work even on a phone. However, it misses special features to present photography, e.g. to set a fix aspect ratio of the presentation such that the photos will not be cropped or the possibility for flexible photo alignment (maybe I just didn’t find them). Before digging deeper into reveal.js, I ask here to find out if there are more specialized solutions that I have missed so far.
And, more general, how do you present your photos together with narration?