Every night I watch television with my wife. We sit on the couch and watch a mini-series. For the rest of the day, the TV remains off, even though I work in another room and am aware that it, the TV, is only two meters away, behind the wall behind me.
I work on my photographs on a 20-inch screen. Smaller. The television, on the other hand, works in 4k. So I wondered about the effect of the photograph on the TV screen.
I did a test with a USB memory stick.
Overwhelming.
But then, looking at this picture, I thought it would be nice to sit on the couch and see a "photo exhibition". My own.
Why not? I thought to myself. Just make a video.
I started researching the best software and lost a day. But I don't know how to make videos, and I don't want to learn new, more daring video making software. At some point I remembered that Apple's very, very old Keynote does exactly that, sequence the images, you can also write some text and then let it make the video.
So I edited the sequence, the copy, the fade time and voila, the very old presentation software did the miracle: a 16:9 format video in 4k Full HD. 900 Mb.
The effect is extraordinary, like going to an exhibition. But you stay at home, have a beer, stretch out on the couch and let the stupendous 4k effect render an image definition you never expected. Better, because you can also tell a story with the copy between the photos. Like having the photographer's commentary with you in an exhibition, explaining the meaning of each image. And without spending a single euro on printing or parking.
There is even more.
The photos are no longer 'still'. They are 'moving'.
And that changes everything. Everything.
Below is the video. But if you really want to have an experience like mine, ask me for the original 4k file, I'll send it to you via Wetransfer. If you are a photographer you will find that looking at photographs with this old/new tool is really amazing.