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Impressive plane. I took a cell video of take off.
 

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Grumman Albatross, I think. Wouldn't bet the farm on it, though.

-Rich
 
Dear world,

Please stop taking cell phone pictures and videos in portrait orientation.

Thank you,
Captain
 
Captain said:
Dear world,

Please stop taking cell phone pictures and videos in portrait orientation.

Thank you,
Captain
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Videos, agreed. But what's wrong with a portrait-orientation picture? Those have been around MUCH longer than cell phones. And in this case, it wouldn't have made a difference - It's not like a cell phone can zoom in any closer.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Videos, agreed. But what's wrong with a portrait-orientation picture? Those have been around MUCH longer than cell phones. And in this case, it wouldn't have made a difference - It's not like a cell phone can zoom in any closer.
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Disagree, if the photographer had been holding their phone horizontally they would have framed the picture in landscape. They would have waited 2 seconds to take the shot and it would have filled the picture.

By holding the phone vertically they snapped the picture when it was framed right for that orientation, missing the better picture a second or two later and subjecting the world to a crappy picture in its place.
 
Captain said:
Disagree, if the photographer had been holding their phone horizontally they would have framed the picture in landscape. They would have waited 2 seconds to take the shot and it would have filled the picture.

By holding the phone vertically they snapped the picture when it was framed right for that orientation, missing the better picture a second or two later and subjecting the world to a crappy picture in its place.
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To which cell phone are you referring? My I4 will not autozoom, to my knowledge. And most if not all cell phone zooms are digital, not optical, so there is no gain in resolution.
 
Sac Arrow said:
To which cell phone are you referring? My I4 will not autozoom, to my knowledge. And most if not all cell phone zooms are digital, not optical, so there is no gain in resolution.
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Has nothing to do with zooming, it has to do with framing a subject in motion, especially towards you. The wing fills the horizontal format at a distance further from the camera in the portrait format. If they had held it in a landscape format the plane would have been able to get much closer before the wings filled the framing, and the blank space top and bottom in the portrait format is eliminated and airplane fills 3/4+ of the frame rather than 20%.
 
Henning said:
Has nothing to do with zooming, it has to do with framing a subject in motion, especially towards you. The wing fills the horizontal format at a distance further from the camera in the portrait format. If they had held it in a landscape format the plane would have been able to get much closer before the wings filled the framing, and the blank space top and bottom in the portrait format is eliminated and airplane fills 3/4+ of the frame rather than 20%.
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Oh I see what you're saying. That's possibly true.
 
Henning said:
Has nothing to do with zooming, it has to do with framing a subject in motion, especially towards you. The wing fills the horizontal format at a distance further from the camera in the portrait format. If they had held it in a landscape format the plane would have been able to get much closer before the wings filled the framing, and the blank space top and bottom in the portrait format is eliminated and airplane fills 3/4+ of the frame rather than 20%.
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That's only true if the airplane is getting closer to you. Unless you know where the plane is going, it doesn't really matter. With a picture like in the OP, the plane could have started a left turn half a second later, giving the photographer the choice of either getting a pic of the belly of the plane, or the tail as it flew away.

Get the shot. Make it good if you can, but in this case it may not have mattered. I'd bet if the OP had had a chance, he'd have gotten a closer picture in landscape orientation, so chances are it did turn away shortly after this pic was taken.

OP: Next time just crop the pic so it looks like it was in landscape mode so we don't have to listen to this incessant bitching from the photo purists. ;) :D
 
Grumman Albatross, the Mallard is smaller.

This Albatross is based at Anoka County (KANE) airport north of St Paul/Minneapolis.
On this video they make a splash and dash at Surfside which is 1 mile from my home. By the way, Lake Pepin is part of the Mississippi south east of the Twin Cities.
Flown by Ryan Mohr, his father is John Mohr and he flies the stock PT-17 Stearman in airshows in this second video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3-oFuyj2Q&feature=em-share_video_user

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBD7QhVC3rM
 
Henning said:
Has nothing to do with zooming, it has to do with framing a subject in motion, especially towards you. The wing fills the horizontal format at a distance further from the camera in the portrait format. If they had held it in a landscape format the plane would have been able to get much closer before the wings filled the framing, and the blank space top and bottom in the portrait format is eliminated and airplane fills 3/4+ of the frame rather than 20%.
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Or more simply stated: Airplanes are wider than they are tall.

-Rich
 
;) What's all the fuss about?
 
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