For the longest time, I’ve primarily displayed everything via the Web. I’d digitize film to post on the net. Digital cameras became a life saver for me. (My wife might not agree.) 20 minutes after my first child was born, pictures were uploaded for all to see. Since then, there has been a fairly constant flow of bytes and bits to Gallery.
The Web is great for getting content up. It’s cheap. It’s easy.
Compressing an image to 1200 pixels makes it easy to see, easy to upload, and easy to download. It doesn’t however, capture everything there is. Differences in monitors, gamma settings, Web browser implentations, and color calibrations all mean that the pictures aren’t the same.
And it just doesn’t look as good.
I’m very proud to be displaying a selection of pictures at the Williamson County Library for the month of December, so that they can be appreciated closer to the manner in which they were meant.
Frankly, I’m actually a bit surprised at some of the images. While I enjoyed them as they were displayed on screen, once they were put to paper at high resolution, details and vibrancy started to pop out that I had missed originally. It’s very simple to zoom into individual areas of a picture for detail, or to draw back and absorb the colors. It’s another thing entirely for me, to be able to do both at once.
I hope you enjoy the selections as much as I do.