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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
I refer to those published in photos, seen on TV, etc, etc Those with the clear picture in the middle, with one dim version on each side. ?? Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | ||
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| That's just the Flomax talking  |
That was discussed here some time ago. It is because the original photo was shot with a cell phone and the format is skinny, so the networks add the blurry sides to fill the TV screen. At least that is what I learned. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Yup. A form of windowboxing. Kind of the "inverse" of letterboxing. I suppose they feel blurred-out versions of the image are better than black windowboxing. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Vertical Video Syndrome (VVS.) It's caused by people who shoot cell phone video with the phone held vertically, when basically all formats where you watch video (like your television or monitor) have the long axis horizontally. There is no way to expand the video to fill all the space with out distorting it horribly. Now to the PSA portion of this rant, if you shoot cell phone video, turn your phone sideways. If you see someone shooting cell phone video vertically, for the love of God ask them to turn their phone on it's side. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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We took some photos for some tourists, with a nice background so naturally I turned the phone to "landscape" position. No, they insisted I take another in "portrait" position, couldn't see much of the surroundings. Selfies really are selfies. But as to why people insist on holding phone upright to do videos--I'm flummoxed. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Had something similar happen to me also so I moved in close enough ONLY the faces were in the picture - and they were happy.  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I believe it was either AirsoftGuy or 46and2 who dubbed it "crackhead letterboxing" several years back.  | |||
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| Rail-less and Tail-less |
For a second I thought you were talking about these  _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | |||
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For the love of God, don’t have them turn the phone sideways after starting video vertically...unless you want an unwatchable video. | |||
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LOL, nice 4 panel meme up there, and thanks for the 3 panel explanation too. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Ha, wasn't me, but that's funny. I did poke fun at mark123 or some forum guitarist for his vertical videos of him playing. Who does that?  | |||
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