Mine are round.
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The flaw in your reasoning, is that we have TWO eyes, set horizontally. Our vision is not a circle, but more of an elongated oval oriented horizontally.
What shape were your school photos?
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Letâs just end these format arguments - the proper shape is a horizontal rectangle, as anybody who had ever viewed sculpture knows.
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i lay down at least 1/3rd of the time. At least!
For tonightâs viewing pleasure, Lawrence of Arabia will be projected onto a replica of Rodinâs The Thinker.
I like the Google Cameraâs passive-aggressive way of doing it: if youâre holding the phone vertically when the app is in video mode, it puts an icon in the middle of the screen to prompt you to turn the phone 90 degrees. It still lets you do it, mind, but it subtly hints that youâre doing it wrong.
Better tell that hack da Vinci that he fucked up, then.
The reason we dislike portrait video (âPortrait!â Itâs right there in the name!) is that you canât properly fullscreen it on the typical monitor. Thatâs a okay reason by itself. We donât need to keep making up new ones to reinforce the point.
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Why, my class group photo was in landscape mode. Thanks for asking. But weâre discussing video. You get that, right? Not still photography. Not sculptures. Not paintings.
Iâm pretty sure the video is not in landscape mode.
You are correct insofar as our peripheral vision extends further horizontally than vertically, but in watching TV and movies at a comfortable viewing distance, the screen width on the retina does not extend beyond the range of stereoscopic vision (where the images converge). The area of stereoscopic vision is close to a circle. The camera lens that gives the most ânaturalâ results on a camera has a focal length roughly equal to the diagonal of the image. Stereoscopic cameras tended to have a slightly longer focal length to ensure that the image, at correct viewing distance, fitted completely into that circle.
(I wrote my photography thesis on this subject, so while I may be wrong, my examiners agreed with me!)
Yes. Those are some big hands. I bet you could really crush some leaves with those bigâŚ
Waitaminute.
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The monkey seems to be thinking âGod, youâre bad at this, no, no, letâs just go over this againâŚâ
But really, I donât understand why people are so offended to think we are related to monkeys/apes, theyâre great. If you think this little fellow is smart, wait till you see a chimpanzee!
This is ridiculous. This is like stating our perception has a framerate.
Thank you. This is the thing. Itâs a technical, force of habit thing, it always has been, and only stuck with moving pictures, again, because of technical limitations. Composition has no biological reason, itâs hilarious to even suggest it.
[quote=âart_carnage, post:29, topic:50596â] You get that, right? Not still photography. Not sculptures.
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You are right. We are talking about composition.
(and not human biology. You get that, right?)
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23 fps
What I want to know is are we obliged to have the aspect ratio argument every time an editor posts this video? 3/4 of the time? or 9/16 maybe.
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Damn shutter in my retina.
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I for one welcome our new 21/9 overlords.
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Still wrong. Are you sure youâre not actually Bill Kristol? Moving pictures are meant to be immersive, in a way that other media canât even approach. And part of that immersive experience is filling the field of vision as much as possible. Thatâs why we have wide movie screens and wide TV screens. When you shoot vertically, you have failed to capture an immersive experience. It would have been a far more interesting video if we could have seen more of environment the monkey was in, but sadly, thatâs opportunity was lost the minute the dunderhead shooting the video held the camera the wrong way.
