The Future is Vertical...

So people look at me funny when I take photos or video with my phone since I hold it horizontal without even thinking. How do you guys do it?
 
firehawk said:
So people look at me funny when I take photos or video with my phone since I hold it horizontal without even thinking. How do you guys do it?
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Horizontal. Period. Full Stop.

I hate to see my producers, who know better, shoot vertical video just so talent can post it on their social media.


NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
 
Vertical extraction from 4K or 6K for social media is not that difficult so why would anyone (in a pro realm) shoot vertically? Unless it's for vertical signage where it matters?
 
Nothing wrong with shooting vertical photos; pro photographers have been doing it all along.


puredrifting said:
Vertical extraction from 4K or 6K for social media is not that difficult so why would anyone (in a pro realm) shoot vertically? Unless it's for vertical signage where it matters?
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Are you asking why you would want to extract 2K from 6K rather than 6K from 6K? The answer seems obvious; the quality is better. Most 6K cameras probably start looking pretty cruddy with a 300% zoom in, such that even on a 1080p phone screen the differences could be noticeable.
 
People do what's natural for them and for most holding a phone vertically is natural, not horizontally.
 
A 2010 article about holding it and signal-loss? Wrong link?

Irrelevant; especially for back then when you mostly talked or texted, and holding a phone horizontally was even less common.
 
Run&Gun said:
Vertical Video will be the legacy of lazy/dumb people who couldn’t be bothered to hold their phone differently than they did when talking/texting on it.

There’s a big difference between a vertically oriented portrait or still image and general use motion imagery.
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I have some Facebook friends who paint. They still hold their mobile vertically, both for photo and video. Sometimes, if I get along with the person well, I tell them to do a horizontal. Sometimes I tell them not to take the up-your-nose selfies (but I tread gingerly there). Sometimes, I tell them to take their sun- or the large frame glasses off. I don't think they take my suggestions to heart. Which is why we still get along.

But I have some successes too. I've been telling a neighbor to understand the framing of the shots he takes by cutting off the unneeded sky (when shooting buildings) and so on. Now his photos are even getting an occasional "wow".

There are six billion smartphones out there. Not every one of their owners can be Ansel Adams.
 
TheDingo said:
Apple's "antennagate" disaster immediately came to mind when people start talking about holding cell phones "wrong".
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I actually missed that period of time, I didn't even know about it. (Also didn't have an iPhone until 2013.)
 
Granted this was a different time before phones were all screen, but one of the many things Blackberry had right, because they knew how people were going to use their devices, they had the internal camera oriented to shoot horizontally with the phones held vertically. Not that there was any other way to use/hold most Blackberry's since the keyboards were physical.
 
The new Fujifilm X-T200 - announced today - has a 1080×1080 mode (designed for social media content).

Matt from Newsshooter recently mentioned he wouldn't be surprised if there was a dedicated camera just for this purpose in the future (although I'm assuming he already knew about this X-T200 mode), and I could see various social media modes coming in left and right from cameras moving forward.
 
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