Posted on 04/07/2023 10:59:54 AM PDT by William of Barsoom
Hold your cellphone HORIZONTALLY
PLEASE....
When taking video for later use, hold your phone HORIZONTALLY - making a wider shot. It will be much more pleasing and useful.
Also: Please don't wave the phone-camera around like a garden hose watering the plants. STEADY shots, or SLOW pans & HOLD work best, and look more professional.
Also: Trust your automatic settings. The time it takes you to manually adjust all your exposure settings will cause you to miss the shot. Automatics are Very Good these days, and work fine 99% of the time.
Also: Don't "breathe" your zoom in and out and in and out. PICK a setting, and make a good steady shot. THEN re-frame and touch up with the zoom for a perfect composition and shoot.
Your shooting will look a lot more professional, and we'll all need less Visine.
73
IBTZ
I couldn’t agree with you more! So much more to see horizontally than vertically.
All very good advice.
My buddy in television news production is vehement about this, too.
If his kids send him video shot vertically he gets on them. They don’t anymore.
Still photos, yes, it depends on the composition of the image you’re trying to capture. Video must be landscape.
I’d like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?
How do you feel about Cleveland?
Horizontal is the only way to capture all of Whoopie.
Forget I mentioned her.
Do as he op-ed said.
Agreed. Vertical camera shots are crap.
I can’t stand dr Phil because he’s a narcissist who just tells everyone what to do, how to do it and when to do it.
That’s how narcissists do.
I’ll be sure to hold my phone however I wish.
Thank you.
Gonna need a WIIIIDE angle lens..................
Landscape vs Portrait.
Completely agree! It’s a pet-peeve of mine as well.
73 to you as well!
Shouldn't you be posting this on tick-tock?
“Tootsie” 1982.
Most phone cameras will allow you to take panoramic images. Of course, there are limits to modern technology that the above-noted subjects may test.
Thank you! I have been preaching for years against people who do video using their smartphones in portrait mode. And then jerk the phone back and forth so they can capture the whole view. It’s the test I use to determine idiocy.
No.
I agree, but I wonder why society is changing so quickly? Pictures tell the story and now it’s so quick and people just react.
Remember when Islam was a threat – everything in the news was about Islam. And now it’s trans and drag queens. Everything is about trans and drag queens. Society has changed so quickly.
Now the military is woke. When did that happen? Again so quickly and people just react if at all... most just accept it.
There is a lot of change going on and not for the good and conservatives just react... if at all. Where did this change come from? If you take a picture of a man dressed up as a woman it would be considered humorous years ago... like Brutus, from Popeye and Brutus, in a wig. Here is a guy with a beard in a wig. Now it is real and no longer comedy. And if you try to make it look ridiculous you could be charged with a hate crime.
Pictures today tell a different story that a few years ago.
A major pet peeve of mine!!!! These phones can make amazing videos at 16:9 etc., yet people hold them vertically, and then it looks like crapola when it hits the TV. I make every video in the landscape orientation.
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