Online Gallery vs PDF show

For many years I have had various online galleries to display a collection of my work. I would organize the gallery by topics such as People, abstract, nature, etc. On one occasion I created a PDF of a series of images around a single place and told a story. I am thinking more long term about how I display my images and looking for a way to build on a library rather than changing galleries every few years.

 

IF you were to come across a website with images grouped in PDFs vs a thumbnail gallery - How likely would you be to download/open the PDF?

Or are you more likely to scroll through a sliding panel ?

 

Would the story added to the PDF add any weight to your decision.

 

A good example of the PDF format would be Brooks Jensen's KoKoro where he explores a theme and related narrative.

I did do a Spark presentation but found it more limiting than creating a PDF. What I am trying to ascertain is the viewers likelihood of opening a presentation vs clicking on thumbnails. I like presentations but find a lot of folks may not have bandwidth or maybe don' t like the presentation formats.

I create slide shows inserting stills into a video program (Adobe Premiere Elements). That way I can add music, title, credits, narrative, or whatever and then show it on my HDTV. I also can download and post the show on YouTube. If you have your own web site, you could post it there as well.

 

Here's a couple I've done

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43EynU-XM3c.

 

Here's the site address where they are located on YouTube.

Alan Klein