Oscar Presentations

[rpcrowe]

I watched the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards, commonly called the "Oscars", Sunday night.

Everyone in the audience, especially the group that was either composed of nominees or friends, relatives of nominees or famous motion picture related people sitting closest to the stage were all motion picture or video related people.

A large number of them were shooting the activity using their Smartphones and guess what I did not see a single person shooting with their phone in the correct manner. Every one of them was shooting with the phone itself in the vertical position.

This of course, results in the image occupying only a small portion of the frame when it is viewed on a monitor. Holding the phone in the landscape position results in a full image. Even when using the cell phone to view the image, shooting in the landscape position results in a larger image.

Besides tilted horizons and straight-on flash images; the tiny Smartphone image resulting from holding the phone in the vertical position is one of my pet peeves...

[Manfred M]

Yes, but you are assuming that someone will be viewing these on a computer screen. When shot for someone viewing on another phone (or a tablet), the orientation is going to work. Perhaps we should be rotating our computer screens by 90 degrees?

[rpcrowe]

Yes, but you are assuming that someone will be viewing these on a computer screen. When shot for someone viewing on another phone (or a tablet), the orientation is going to work. Perhaps we should be rotating our computer screens by 90 degrees?

Not really, when shot with your phone in the horizontal position it can be viewed on your or another phone in a much larger image than a video which has been shot with the camera in vertical. You will also see the video image larger if you are a recipient of an attached email of if the video image is transffered to YouTube or other viewing sites...

[loosecanon]

How many of the images are more than transitory, never to be archived, indeed never to see the light of day after a week or so. So many images are recorded every day but how many are photographs that say something.

The phone has replaced the compact camera, and now is evolving to be a camera which can also be used for messaging and browsing the web.