About a month ago, Boston.com fired up a new photo blog, The Big Picture.
With regular news stories, you rarely get very large photos. Very wide columns of text are difficult to read, so if photos are embedded in an article, they're typically medium-ish (say, 500 pixels or so). If there's a separate photo player, the photos still aren't "oh my goodness"-big.
Well, The Big Picture is all about "oh my goodness"-big. Each entry features an enormous collection of photos from a given topic, e.g. the latest space shuttle launch. We're all so used to seeing those medium-ish photos that these huge photos is a reminder of how powerful photos can really be.
With regular news stories, you rarely get very large photos. Very wide columns of text are difficult to read, so if photos are embedded in an article, they're typically medium-ish (say, 500 pixels or so). If there's a separate photo player, the photos still aren't "oh my goodness"-big.
Well, The Big Picture is all about "oh my goodness"-big. Each entry features an enormous collection of photos from a given topic, e.g. the latest space shuttle launch. We're all so used to seeing those medium-ish photos that these huge photos is a reminder of how powerful photos can really be.
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