Thursday, May 5, 2016

Way Out West - Revisited

My image show "Way Out West" on Vancouver Island  is an outtake from a longer one: "High In My Heart", which has Western Canada as theme. These shows have their origin entirely in Kodachrome-slides taken between the late 70s and early 90s.
Incidentally, I chose the title before there ever was a Swedish Rock Festival with the name "Way Out West". But neither the music people nor I were very creative: this phrase is often used in North America for assorted things westerly...
This is a new version and my first conversion of a former analogue slide show to a full web-playing 16:9 HD show (resolution 1920x1080 px). 16:9 format inevitably requires some cropping of the original slide-format on top, bottom or a bit of both of "landscape" (horizontally) oriented images. No problem to accomplish digitally, but no easy task since it involves tough sacrifices. A few tricks can help, like a bit of vertical panning. Sometimes even a slight manipulation of the image aspect ratio can be implemented discretely, stretching a picture a little, making it wider while maintaining the height. All this in order to fill the screen completely, not allowing black bars left and right.
Click on the title slide and you'll be taken to the blog post where you find the show plus some background info. If you prefer to start the show directly, click here.

http://wroosch.blogspot.se/2011/02/way-out-west.html

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