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What is it with these 3 panel photos?
December 21, 2017, 08:55 AM
Elk HunterWhat is it with these 3 panel photos?
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.
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December 21, 2017, 08:58 AM
GaryBFThat 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.
December 21, 2017, 09:25 AM
ensigmaticYup. 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.
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PerceptionVertical 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.
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sjtillWe 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.
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December 21, 2017, 12:41 PM
LS1 GTOquote:
Originally posted by sjtill:
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.
Had something similar happen to me also so I moved in close enough ONLY the faces were in the picture - and they were happy.
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December 21, 2017, 12:49 PM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by sjtill:
But as to why people insist on holding phone upright to do videos--I'm flummoxed.
I believe it was either AirsoftGuy or 46and2 who dubbed it "crackhead letterboxing" several years back.
December 21, 2017, 09:59 PM
Dusty78For a second I thought you were talking about these
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December 22, 2017, 08:02 AM
bcereussquote:
Originally posted by Perception:
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.
For the love of God, don’t have them turn the phone sideways after starting video vertically...unless you want an unwatchable video.
December 26, 2017, 10:56 AM
jimb888LOL, nice 4 panel meme up there, and thanks for the 3 panel explanation too.
December 27, 2017, 12:03 AM
46and2quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by sjtill:
But as to why people insist on holding phone upright to do videos--I'm flummoxed.
I believe it was either AirsoftGuy or 46and2 who dubbed it "crackhead letterboxing" several years back.
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?
