the way I see it

[Christopher Barrett]

After shooting with the Red for a month I had a Still Photo assignment come up. I immediately found myself wanting to crop all the shots to 16:9.

I was wondering why I never liked shooting verticals anymore.

Heh.

 

[Martin Weiss]

When I first started with digital photography and started watching the shots on a monitor, I also somehow almost stopped shooting verticals.

But then the iPhone came along, and with it the ability to easily and quickly adjust the screen - and I have re-discovered the joys of non-horizontal shooting.

Heck, I'd love to get a client to do a vertical shot film - should be great for installed displays.

 

[Christopher Barrett]

I imagine it all started when I bought my Epson 4000, discovered printing on roll paper and bought a 6x12 back for my view camera. I think it was this body of work that made me fall in love with the cinematic perspective.

CB

 

[Petr Dvorak]

You must use rotating monitors or print out pictures, vertical is amazing.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Nice work on that link. Thanks for posting.

 

[Joe Taylor]

Hello Christopher,

Your work on your web site is remarkable. You might be interested in seeing a friend of mines work, Chris Walker, who also specializes in low light photographer. Here's his web site: http://www.chriswalkerphoto.com/

 

[David Rasberry]

When I first started with digital photography and started watching the shots on a monitor, I also somehow almost stopped shooting verticals.

But then the iPhone came along, and with it the ability to easily and quickly adjust the screen - and I have re-discovered the joys of non-horizontal shooting.

Heck, I'd love to get a client to do a vertical shot film - should be great for installed displays.

There is a lot of vertical format digital signage out there. Should be interesting to experiment with.

 

[Martin Weiss]

Haven't seen any vertical digital signage using live action footage - they tend to be text based. Would love to experiment.

Heck, give me my Epic, and I'll play with it vertically. Especially with the RED 90.

 

[David Rasberry]

I saw a vertical videowall in a fashion boutique in Vegas. Two narrow bezel 42" panels stacked and oriented vertically showing a fashion runway video. Don't know what it was shot on. Also saw a 3 stack vertical array of 2560 x1600 Digital Cinema DLP projectors running custom signage video at Infocomm in June. There was also a 15 megapixel video wall made up of 1x1 foot LED cubes shown too.
Red's should be a shoe in for some of these high end digital signage apps in the near future. Nothing else can shoot the resolutions. HD looked very soft on these displays.

 

[Eren Ozkural]

I found myself cropping 2.35:1 quite a few times after getting used to the RED...but only if it helps in telling the story. Take this one as an example. I just wanted to isolate these two on a VERY crowded bridge.