When I shoot with the Olympus E-1, I invariably leave it at 4:3 rather than truncating it. But if I'm using the 2:3 aspect horizontal with two people in the frame, I tend to leave the frame long. Why? Old episodes of Perry Mason. (?) Watch some 1950's scenes of Perry Mason and you'll see that, in order to keep both people in the frame from the side, their faces are about 12 inches apart (talk about invading personal space). I see the same thing with boxing announcers. Between fights, they talk to one another with their faces about a foot apart, and it looks unnerving to me.
When I was at Tulane in the 1970's, we had some students from the Middle East who were accustomed to a smaller personal space (compared to Americans). With some conversations, you could see a steady backward creeping of the American. Jefferyu On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Nice work as always, Jeffery! > > - Ah yes, TX400 ... still a nice film, but I haven't shot any in years. > > - 3:4 ... I proportion photos anything from ultra-oblong to square, > but most of what I like tends to fall into approximately square to 3:4 > format. It's one of the reasons I've gravitated to FourThirds and 645 > cameras, the native full-frame format is closer to my perceptual bias. > 35mm Film (2:3) always seemed too oblong for general purpose use on > verticals to me, but is fine for horizontals, with a cinematic feel. > > Raises an interesting thought ... I'll have to look up how many > verticals I have in my finished work vs square vs horizontals. I shoot > a lot of vertical orientation as well as square. > > Fun stuff. :-) > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> I used 35mm film for so long, 4:3 just got to be "normal" for me. 5:4 just >> seems cramped to me, especially since television screens started getting >> wider. >> >> Jeffery >> >> On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:01 AM, Cotty wrote: >> >>> Had a look through your PAW shots, really excellent work. Interesting >>> that you present everything as 4:3 aspect ratio except for some vertical >>> portraits. Personally I hate 4:3 and prefer square or more oblong >>> hoizobntals. But these did work for me. Just goes to show :) > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
