

I’m not concerned about the short edge since I don’t want my images cropped in any way. Because the iPad’s display is 1024 pixels on the longest side, I export all images at this dimension so that it fills the screen at the longest edge either horizontally or vertically. SettingsĪfter some experimentation, I think I’ve found the settings that give me the best results when exporting images from Adobe Lightroom 3 to the iPad. The combination of the size, portability, and amazingly beautiful display seem to have been made for photographers and other visual artists. I do.I’ve had an iPad for some time now, and it has proven to be a great tool for showing my work, whether to potential customers at art shows, corporate presentations, or just sharing images with family and friends. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, they don’t really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. “The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much. We join him on his audio-visual Wagner Drive, roaring up into the San Gabriel Mountains, and into the opera house by means of animated re-creations of his stage designs.įrom LA to Yorkshire, and up to the present day in Normandy, the show is an unprecedented opportunity to spend time in the presence of one of the great popular geniuses of the art world still innovating, still creating beauty and awe. His voice is in our ears as we watch him experimenting with perspective, using photography as a way of ‘drawing with a camera’, capturing the passing of time in his polaroid collages and the joy of spring on his iPad, and showing us why only paint can properly convey the hugeness of the Grand Canyon.


In a cycle of six themed chapters, with a specially composed score by Nico Muhly and a commentary by the artist himself, Hockney reveals his process to us.
