Some time ago I decided in the name of minimalism to not print any more photos and to only look at them on digital devices. But I quickly discarded that decision after decluttering my binders and gathering together my favourite photograph prints. There is really no comparison between a photograph seen on a screen and one held in the hand. A well-exposed photograph looks very good on a website or a tablet, but a photograph printed on good paper by an expert lab loses some of the harshness of the backlit pixel and bring out a photo’s beauty. Is it because pixels on a display are discrete units but dots from a printer run into each other a bit, resulting in a more organic look? I don’t know, and I’m sure others have written about this more knowledgeably than me.
In the interest of maybe showing better photographs here, I recently made it a rule not to post new photographs until I had prints in hand to see which of my pictures really make me happy after going through the complete editing process from camera-to-computer transfer to selecting in an image viewer to getting the prints back from the lab and looking them over again.
But enough about that. Here are four photographs I made at Anmok Beach last month. I used a 16:9 aspect ratio because I thought it matched the wide scenes of the beach. The prints, of course, look nicer than what you see here, but enjoy.
That’s a nice little series Marcus – very good.
Now go and eat some ribs and cover the prints in grease!
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I’ll use barbecue sauce to draw little birds in the sky as well.
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These pictures all look rather tranquil.
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Thanks. Making quiet photos of the beach is only possible in the colder months on a weekday. At other times there are hundreds upon hundreds of people around.
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should do the same place when the folks are there
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I avoid the place when people show up. Traffic jams, blaring car horns, smokers, Instagrammers, unruly children, unruly adults . . . . Ugh.
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A very nice set of shots, sir. Who stole the clouds? š
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Thank you. The clouds were, of course, stolen by .
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What an absolute beautiful series my friend! I really love these, and can only imagine what they look like in the printed version. They are probably absolutely spotless š
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Yes, the prints were very clean and look nicer than the digital copies.
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