Update Photos in Slideshow via Home Sharing

I am trying to put on a slideshow for my son's first birthday next weekend and will be taking photos in a "photobooth" type setup and having the pictures wirelessly transmitted to my computer to be viewed in a slideshow over Apple TV. I have home sharing in iTunes turned on and have it monitoring a folder. The problem I am having is that when I take new pictures, it does not automatically update in the Apple TV photos section. I have to go into iTunes and
then when I check back with Apple TV, it has update.
Any way to get around this and have it update on it's own so I can have a slideshow running as people take pictures?
Thanks,
Toby

Hi, seems like I cannot get photos to update in AppleTV (2nd gen) from iTunes/iPhoto after adding new photos in iPhoto. AppleTV "updates my library" but the last imported photos do not appear anywhere on AppleTV.
Any ideas on how to get AppleTV to display recently added/imported photos? Is there an update function?
Thanks

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