7mo ago

#photography nerditry

One of my interests is making very high resolution images of formally composed, often architectural subjects. This resolution is beyond what you can render on any current digital monitor. The intended output format is a large print.

Large prints are expensive to proiduce and inconvenient to display, but they provide a different and more layered viewing experience than you can get on a monitor. You're invited to take in the whole, but also to get close and explore details.

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At the same time, I also want to share my work, and that means the Internet, where people are, obviously, viewing images on their monitors.
There's no perfect solution here, but what I generally do is post a smaller thumbnail, with a link to a flickr page where you can download the full size image and have a print made locally if it strikes your fancy.
- A few people have reacted with hostility to this, suggesting that it's pretentious to want photos to be viewed in a particular intended way. I find this weird. No one begrudges a painter for using large canvasses, and photography is no different from that.
  Anyway, if you want to print my stuff, go ahead. And if you don't, that's cool too.
  
  @mattblaze@federate.social
  People are weird and illogical. I've long given up trying to understand it all.
  For what its worth, I enjoy the images you post and appreciate your efforts :)
  
  @mattblaze@federate.social With high resolutions it'd also possible to zoom in quite far on a monitor to see the details. Many of ypur subjects have many interestimg details that would not be properly visible at smaller resolutions.
- @mattblaze@federate.social This makes me think of the rabbit hole of calibration. I get why it's done and would like to do it someday, but, oh, man. Is your image rendering "correctly?" 🤪
@mattblaze@federate.social fwiw, some of us appreciate you & your photos. thanks for posting them.
@mattblaze@federate.social Should you find yourself in San Diego, make your way to the Computer Science department and locate those who run the I/O lab. Show them this thread.
@mattblaze@federate.social I did some darkroom / chemical based photography as options back in University, and used to joke that you could turn a boring "C" photo into a "B+" by printing it big ;)
That said, yes huge photos are great and different than the same thing at a smaller scale :)

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