Thankfully, I didn't waste a whole 2 minutes and 5 seconds watching that but, I would like to know if someone can replenish the 45 seconds I did watch. My life is only so long and I hate the thought of wasting what little time I have left.
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
Thankfully, I didn't waste a whole 2 minutes and 5 seconds watching that but, I would like to know if someone can replenish the 45 seconds I did watch. My life is only so long and I hate the thought of wasting what little time I have left.
What a grump.
Tony, the video was great. The message needs to get out there... and the song was quite enjoyable. Two thumbs up!
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You'd think the cell phone manufactures would have added the feature to lock the orientation by now or a warning. There is probably a camera app for that but I wouldn't trade it for the app that came on this phone.
You'd think the cell phone manufacturers would have added the feature to lock the orientation...
Um, when was the last time you upgraded your phone? You're not using a Blackberry, are you? I can't remember the last phone I had that DIDN'T allow me to lock the orientation.
Theres a time for vertical and horizontal shots. Vertical shots work great for one person subject shots, Horizontal best for landscape or groups. I like people who take car photos in vertical mode and cut off the front and rear ends.
first vid is funny. Idiot users w/ "smart phone" is a not new problem. The Problem is Millions of people doing same very dumb things. I've work w/ vid cameras for Many years. I've seen many problems cause by idiot/nube camera men and home users.
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Originally posted by williegoat: You don't remember "full page" monitors?
Called Portrait screens First ones I know of were aftermarket units (most were Radius products) and many uses "daughter boards" for MacPlus, SE and SE30 systems.
Now many LCD screen can flip to portrait mode and you manually set that in screen properties. Many Dell LCD have/had bases with a swivel at top to do this. A few monitors (CRT like Radius Pivot (ytube) and now LCD.) for desktop have the hardware and drivers to auto switch from landscape to portrait and back.
------------------ Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (Jurassic Park)
But not video or still played back on a tv or computer screen..
Actually, if theyre a single person standing, it does look better. If you do a picture or video of a model standings, all the crap on the sides of a wide angle shot draw away from the subject. If its a single person, lying down or stretched out horizonally, then its fine to shoot in wide angle.
Thats why you can set your tv screen to block out the sides that are not needed. A lot of tv shows are still shown in 4:3 format, with the bars blocking out the sides on a widescreen tv. If you stretch those out to fill the screen everyone looks fat and 3' tall. H2 shows a lot of programs in 4:3 format even now. If you zoom it to fill the screen on the sides, you cut off heads and legs. If I shoot it that way myself, its because I want you to see the subject, not the scenery or lack of it, on the sides. Most good photos of people posing are in vertical format.
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Thats why you can set your tv screen to block out the sides that are not needed. A lot of tv shows are still shown in 4:3 format, with the bars blocking out the sides on a widescreen tv. If you stretch those out to fill the screen everyone looks fat and 3' tall. H2 shows a lot of programs in 4:3 format even now. If you zoom it to fill the screen on the sides, you cut off heads and legs. If I shoot it that way myself, its because I want you to see the subject, not the scenery or lack of it, on the sides. Most good photos of people posing are in vertical format.
That may be but it's still different. 4:3 is 4 horizontal to 3 vertical. Your still wider than higher. Portrait is higher than wider and I've never seen a tv show or movie shot entirely in that format. Inserts of "look at this video I caught with my phone" are different, I'm talking FULL on production in a higher than wider format in video which is what the whole point of this thread is. Photo stills and video are two entirely different things.
Challenge: Provide me to a link of a TV show that was shot higher than wider.
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That may be but it's still different. 4:3 is 4 horizontal to 3 vertical. Your still wider than higher. Portrait is higher than wider and I've never seen a tv show or movie shot entirely in that format. Inserts of "look at this video I caught with my phone" are different, I'm talking FULL on production in a higher than wider format in video which is what the whole point of this thread is. Photo stills and video are two entirely different things.
Yep. If you are watching a vid of someone singing in a field outside on youtube (for example ) and its shot in vertical you have a ton of balck space and a seemingly wandering small vid area.
I used to be on the side of the people against recording video vertically. But I've changed my mind. You see, most people that record video vertically are shooting video to send to another phone. And like it or not, a phone is a portrait medium. So it makes sense shooting video vertically. I you are shooting video for watching at home on your big screen tv, then it makes more sense to shoot horizontally.
Also, you see a lot of video shot by mobile phones of crimes in progress. For identification purposes, it's best to shoot that vertically because you get the best resolution that way.
Try H2. Lots of its programs are in 4:3 frame with the sides blacked/ grayed out. If you stretch it to the sides, it squashes everything. If you zoom it to fill the screen, you chop off the top and bottom. I see the same thing on a lot of channels, especially those not in HD. In the original post, the girl in the video would look better with all the useless crap on both sides of her gone. Nothing on the sides add anything of value to the picture.
What I find annoying to watch is an old cinemascope movie on tv with the bottom and top of the screen grayed out (even on a wide screen tv). Ill usually switch channels, or zoom in so I cut off the sides of the movie to fill the screen vertically and horizontally.
As an 'artist', I equate photos and videos...just one is moving and the other is not. Composure is still the same. If a model in a bikini is running thru a field and off to the side in landscape mode is a broke down tractor or a fat guy masturbating, and you like that, have at it. The model is my subject, not all the other crap in the field of view.
There is no reasoning whatsoever to shoot video with a cell phone while in "Portrait" mode. 
