Mikalye's 14th 2016 Puzzle - A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work - Ended - Solution Posted

Hints

Hint 1: You will need to identify as many of the images as possible. You will find that they all are part of the same set (or perhaps two sets).
Hint 2: Once you have figured out the sets, then the cipher should be clear. Though you may have some unidentified images.
Hint 3: Given the nature of the sets, there are very limited choices for any images that you cannot identify, so you can brute force it if you want. Alternatively, there is no distortion on the images. A reverse image search will work.
Hint 4: Some of the images are less clear than others, so I thought that I would help with the most obscure. For the Time Magazine cover, I am looking for the person on the cover, who is the politician Huey Long. For the first one, I want the circled baseball position.

Solution

The trick is to notice that each of the pictures, as hinted in the title, contains the word short or long. They are:
shortstop shortbread daddy_long_legs / martin_short long_island longans short_ribs / windows_shortcut long_division longfellow short_track_speedskating / short_cast / short_story apache_longbow_helicopter shortening / Actress_ShellyLong(on_the_set_of_Cheers) shortwave_radio Oscars_best_picture_shortlist shortsword // longhorn_cattle British_shorthair_cat_breed shorts // "Long_Tom"_Cannon Politician_Huey_Long Longitude / Longshot short_stackpancakes / Shorthand // Longmire(from_the_television_show_of_that_name) Long_johns_or_long_underwear / Chess_Grandmaster_Nigel_Short Short_Back_andSides(Haircut) The_Long_Goodbye / ShortCircuit(Movie) Long_PlayingRecord(LP) Longshoreman Shortcate / NY_Times_Crossword_Editor_Will_Shortz Long_Walk_to_Freedom Long_Nosed_Monkey Elizabeth_Short / Shortsightedness / Disney's_Shorty_McShort_Shorts Longship Short_Circuit // Strawberry_Shortcake The_Big_Short
Now it should be clear that we are looking at short tones and long in Morse Code. Reading every short thing as a dot and every long thing as a dash, also allowing a / to represent the end of a letter and the // to represent the end of a word we get UPPER B D ONE M UPPER I which should lead to the steamgifts giveaway Bd1mI. The second correction was necessitated since I had originally read the uppercase I as a lowercase L (which I was very embarrassed about).

This is my fourteenth (or possibly fifteenth) puzzle of 2016 after:
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games

Eh, what? I am clueless already!
I'm so bad at puzzles

I bet those are links.

Before reading about this one...
I solved the previous puzzle but the solution makes no sense...

edit: Oh, i see you posted a solution... Bach 4,4...was that always 4,4 or did I miss a correction? I had 4,2.
Too bad the support/hints were lacking, won't spend the same time on a puzzle again :/

I think I have things identified and deciphered with the right method since I come up with something that makes sense, but hmmm not solved yet.

Think I found the right cipher, which would mean I have one character solved.

hints posted

Hmm, I am fairly confident I got everything right, but the code is not working. :r

Hmm. Are images no longer available?

I assume the 2nd correction is missing the // at the start?

Solved. But "Listen up" was better :)