Why do people with mobile phones have so much difficulty holding them straight? I can understand vertical video (portrait format) if the
subject is shaped that way, although it doesn't lend itself to being
shown on TV and it's very unconventional.
But what's with 45-degree video? https://westleedsdispatch.com/incredible-footage-shows-pontoon-destroy-bridge-near-armley-mills/
(second video on the page). Warning: the F-word is used several times,
hardly surprising given what they are witnessing ;-)
But what's with 45-degree video?
Why do people with mobile phones have so much difficulty holding them straight? I can understand vertical video (portrait format) if the
subject is shaped that way, although it doesn't lend itself to being
shown on TV and it's very unconventional.
But what's with 45-degree video? https://westleedsdispatch.com/incredible-footage-shows-pontoon-destroy-bridge-near-armley-mills/
(second video on the page). Warning: the F-word is used several times,
hardly surprising given what they are witnessing ;-)
NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
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But what's with 45-degree video?
It was highly praised when used artistically in "The Third Man".
On 21/02/2022 15:51, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:Not to mention the 1960s Batman series. IIRC, it was called "Dutch Tilt!
[...]
But what's with 45-degree video?
It was highly praised when used artistically in "The Third Man".
On 21/02/2022 15:51, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:Not to mention the 1960s Batman series. IIRC, it was called "Dutch Tilt!
[...]
But what's with 45-degree video?
It was highly praised when used artistically in "The Third Man".
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John.
Why do people with mobile phones have so much difficulty holding them straight? I can understand vertical video (portrait format) if the subject
is shaped that way, although it doesn't lend itself to being shown on TV
and it's very unconventional.
But what's with 45-degree video? https://westleedsdispatch.com/incredible-footage-shows-pontoon-destroy-bridge-near-armley-mills/
(second video on the page). Warning: the F-word is used several times,
hardly surprising given what they are witnessing ;-)
For the benefit of Brian, both videos show (from different angles) a
flowing pontoon that had been moored on the River Aire upstream of the
centre of Leeds to do flood-remediation work (how ironic) and had been wrenched free by the strong current, taking a couple of JCB-like diggers
and a tank of diesel with it. The diggers were knocked off by collision
with an earlier bridge and are probably at the bottom of the river, but
the pontoon has continued and now hits a low footbridge (looks like
concrete slabs just above the water level), fracturing it and tipping the slabs on end so they too are carried downstream.
I presume a lot of the debris will have been stopped by a weir further on
and can be retrieved when the river level and speed goes down, although on
an earlier video someone posted that the diggers were now underneath "the station" and causing havoc - surely that isn't "the dark arches" below
Leeds City Station...
Why do people with mobile phones have so much difficulty holding them >straight? I can understand vertical video (portrait format) if the subject
is shaped that way, although it doesn't lend itself to being shown on TV and >it's very unconventional.
But what's with 45-degree video? >https://westleedsdispatch.com/incredible-footage-shows-pontoon-destroy-bridge-near-armley-mills/
(second video on the page). Warning: the F-word is used several times,
hardly surprising given what they are witnessing ;-)
Not to mention recording on the soundtrack "I got that on video",
sometimes several times, a fact that will be self evident if true. Professionals never do this.
"Roderick Stewart" <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message news:7rb91h9b8ub1ce4kfuqqja2ccemp67jpn8@4ax.com...
Not to mention recording on the soundtrack "I got that on video",
sometimes several times, a fact that will be self evident if true.
Professionals never do this.
I presume the "I got that on video" is telling a friend who is with you
that you are filming, rather than as a commentary to whoever watches it afterwards. A classic case of forgetting that whatever you say will be
picked up by the mike.
"Roderick Stewart" <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message >news:7rb91h9b8ub1ce4kfuqqja2ccemp67jpn8@4ax.com...
Not to mention recording on the soundtrack "I got that on video",
sometimes several times, a fact that will be self evident if true.
Professionals never do this.
I presume the "I got that on video" is telling a friend who is with you that >you are filming, rather than as a commentary to whoever watches it >afterwards. A classic case of forgetting that whatever you say will be
picked up by the mike.
A common feature of amateur video
is that the camera pans away from the action the moment the amusing
thing happens, so that we miss the start of it, and then it's as if
the operator suddenly remembers they're using a camera and hastily
restores a wobbly badly framed shot of the aftermath
Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
...Inevitably when you are photographing
something you are physically present at the scene, so must mentally
detach your view of the image from your direct view of the subject.
Some people just don't seem to get it at all.
Some do it a little too successfully, such as the photographer during
the trial of the 'Panjandrum', who nearly got run over by the thing he
was filming.
...Inevitably when you are photographing
something you are physically present at the scene, so must mentally
detach your view of the image from your direct view of the subject.
Some people just don't seem to get it at all.
On 23/02/2022 10:16, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
...Inevitably when you are photographing
something you are physically present at the scene, so must mentally
detach your view of the image from your direct view of the subject.
Some people just don't seem to get it at all.
Some do it a little too successfully, such as the photographer during
the trial of the 'Panjandrum', who nearly got run over by the thing he
was filming.
His was just part of the wider fortitude ;)
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Robin
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There have been many times in the past where cine photographers using hand held devices have been so intent on following the action that they got involved in it themselves. I bet there are quite a few on youtube. Obviously I cannot see them these days, but two sprint to mind. They guy during the
war panning around a V2 rocket launch site and then when the rocket lit, the thrust was not high enough and it went sideways toward him and likely for him, exploded before it got to him. Then there was the Hindenburg fire not the one taken from the tripod but the obviously hand held one you often see where he pans over the burning airship.
There was also one at a rally in the UK where a cameraman was still controlling his camera when the car left the road on a corner and rolled
over toward him at obvious close quarters.
I think people become detached from the scene by looking at the viewfinder, not the world outside.
A Russian army officer was killed at a launch some years ago when a rocket malfunctioned just above the clouds and fell back down and killed him. The film showed him standing watching far too close in for safety.
Brian
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