{"id":3504,"date":"2005-09-19T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T00:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/19\/best-viewed-large\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:07:04","slug":"best-viewed-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/19\/best-viewed-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Viewed Large"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to admit to a certain curiosity about the tendency for so many people to add “best viewed large<\/a>” to the descriptions of a photo they’ve uploaded to Flickr<\/a>. Two things are constantly popping into my head when I see “best viewed large” added to a photo:<\/p>\n

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  1. Is there really any photo of decent quality that won’t<\/em> be “better” (that is, clearer, easier to distinguish fine details, and showing less JPEG distortion) at a larger size?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    How long (assuming it hasn’t happened already) before someone uploads a picture of a penis with this phrase tacked onto the description?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Chances are, if I like a photo enough, I’m going to see if there’s a larger resolution available whether or not someone tells<\/em> me to; conversely, if a photo doesn’t interest me, I’m not likely to try downloading a larger version just to see if it magically gets better.<\/p>\n

    All in all, it seems a little silly.<\/p>\n

    \"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “Under Pressure<\/a>” by Queen<\/a> from the album Classic Queen<\/a><\/em> (1981, 4:03).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have to admit to a certain curiosity about the tendency for so many people to add ‘best viewed large’ to the descriptions of a photo they’ve uploaded to Flickr. Two things are constantly popping into my head when I see ‘best viewed large’ added to a photo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2050],"tags":[6,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}