Miami Stock Footage Grabs

[David Jimerson]

Example of some Miami stock footage I shot.

Full frame:



Cropped to 1.85:

[David Jimerson]

More.

[exomniac]

I like these shots alot. It's too bad we have to result to butchering them to get our preffered aspect ratio.

Makes me want to go play me some Vice City.

[David Jimerson]

Thanks.

I dunno -- shooting 4:3 gives you a little more wiggle room. Not that we ever make mistakes . . .

[Mike_Donis]

Not only that, but 35mm film is 4:3...they get a 1.85 ratio by cropping, too. So it's not really that bad when you think about it...

[David Jimerson]

And remember that 16:9 is *not* 1.85; it's 1.78 -- so it's not *quite* as wide as 1.85. Even if you have 16:9 CCDs, you'd still have to crop.

My preferred aspect ratio is 2.35, though.

[Mike_Donis]

My preferred aspect ratio is 2.35, though.

Mine too

[J.R. Hudson]

Me too!

[David Jimerson]

Though, the above pics illustrate a couple of things . . .

Uncropped, they're pretty much snapshots. Cropped, they look like movies.

But they DO give a little momentum to the noisy anti-widescreen crowd who think the black bars are hiding some of the picture . . .

:o

[Mike_Donis]

Well, they *are* hiding the picture, everything in 1.85 anyways. Even a lot of 2.35 movies are "hiding" the picture, when they're shot in Super35 (like Lord of the Rings, for example). But us enlightened folk know that it's better regardless; widescreen kicks ass! ;)