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11/11/2003 10:26:10 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by emorgan49:
Likewise it is no accident that film is not square and that the hoizontal format is the way cameras are built. |
Actually, it probably is mostly accident
The current aspect aspect ratio used for television was originally developed by W.K.L. Dickson in 1889 while he was working at Thomas Edison's laboratories. Dickson was experimenting with a motion-picture camera called a Kinescope, and he made his film 1" wide with frames 3/4" high. This film size, and its aspect ratio, became the standard for the film and motion-picture industry because there was no apparent reason to change. In 1941, when the NTSC proposed standards for television broadcasting, they adopted the same ratio as the film industry. It made sense fifty years ago. From //www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/aspect_ratio/ and other places |
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11/11/2003 10:51:25 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by emorgan49:
Likewise it is no accident that film is not square and that the hoizontal format is the way cameras are built. |
Unless you shoot with a Hasselblad....
or any other 6x6 format camera |
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11/11/2003 02:20:02 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
...if you know what you are doing, you can create a lot of tension... |
Tension. There is another interesting topic for a rainy day. The idea of an image as an energy construct... |
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11/11/2003 03:09:48 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Originally posted by emorgan49:
Likewise it is no accident that film is not square and that the hoizontal format is the way cameras are built. |
Unless you shoot with a Hasselblad....
or any other 6x6 format camera |
or shot verticals and portrait orientation |
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11/11/2003 05:59:16 PM · #30 |
LOL Now I'm feeling paranoid. For the first time in a long while, perhaps ever, I included in a comment a point about Rule of Thirds - I felt the composition was good but would have been better than good had this compositional structure been used in this instance.
And also --- what Gordon said.
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