True dat, but magazines are something of a dying breed. I very often have to consider shooting landscape where I would have ordinarily shot portrait -- like for a portrait :-) -- because I know that my wife is going to add the shot to one of her video productions. I suspect that's happening more and more.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM, J.C. O'Connell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > Magazine covers are still verticals... > > > On 12/12/2013 7:40 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: >> >> Heck the list will do what it will do, I've brought a few people in >> over the years but not many stayed, the delivery format and content >> doesn't suite most people these days. Let's face it if you want to >> discuss gear there are plenty of other places to go that offer far >> more depth and if you want as many people as possible to see your work >> or pats on the back or robust critiques then again this list is >> probably not the place to be. >> >> To me it's mainly a bunch or people who many I've known in the virtual >> world for quite a long time now and it's interesting to have watched >> their work, focus and lives change over the decades! The pub analogy >> is often trotted out and really it's probably best fit for this place, >> more like the village local in fact. >> >> Re Darren's comment below I'm primarily a vertical shooter, it suits >> me and it suits my subjects the vast majority of times, I often get >> close in on a subject and I have to make use of negative space far too >> much when I shoot horizontally though it does work sometimes. I refuse >> to let digital media delivery systems dictate what I do and what will >> work perfectly well in print so I'm glad that Ricoh are looking after >> the vertical shooters :) >> >> I wish I had more time to check out and comment on other peoples work >> here but currently I don't, hopefully things will change a bit next >> year and I'll have more time free to indulge in such pleasures. >> >> >> On 13 December 2013 03:19, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The vertical sensor is also a little meaningless (and hardly qualifies >>> as "innovation", in my book). I like vertical shots and probably take >>> more than the average person, but there is no question that we live in >>> a horizontal/landscape world, especially when it comes to image >>> presentation on the web. Your monitor is horizontal. The layout of >>> most online photogalleries will thus show a horizontally composed >>> image at a larger size than a vertically composed one, which must be >>> scaled down to fit within the vertical dimension of your monitor. We >>> saw this same problem with the PDML annual (at least a couple of years >>> ago, the last time I looked) when a horizontal page layout was used, >>> making the vertical compositions look far less impressive than the >>> horizontally composed ones. >> >> > > > -- > J.C. O'Connell > hifis...@gate.net > -- > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
