Think Horizontal, Not Vertical
By Robert Lachman
Earlier, I wrote about the software Fotomagico by Boinx software. It reminded me that when you're shooting pics for a slide shows the rules change. You need to remember the format you shooting for. Try to think of youself as a movie director and the wide canvas you have. Think of the wide long movie screen. It's quite a departure from the way I would normally shoot photographs. The old school rules would be shoot vertical, horizontal and shoot tight.
Remember your cool new digital SLR viewfinder window gives you a much more horizontal square 4:3 format. You're not going to use any of the top and bottom of that viewfinder. All those pixel are going to waste. It a shame to waste pixels, but you can use them later when you make 8x10 or 4x6 prints. Shoot tight but now it's time to pull back and shoot again. Now get much wider and fire again, remember you can pan across photos on your new super expensive HDTV screen. You're going for the Ken Burns effect on steroids, that's OK, this isn't Major League baseball.
You need to push your creative limits.
Earlier, I wrote about the software Fotomagico by Boinx software. It reminded me that when you're shooting pics for a slide shows the rules change. You need to remember the format you shooting for. Try to think of youself as a movie director and the wide canvas you have. Think of the wide long movie screen. It's quite a departure from the way I would normally shoot photographs. The old school rules would be shoot vertical, horizontal and shoot tight.
Remember your cool new digital SLR viewfinder window gives you a much more horizontal square 4:3 format. You're not going to use any of the top and bottom of that viewfinder. All those pixel are going to waste. It a shame to waste pixels, but you can use them later when you make 8x10 or 4x6 prints. Shoot tight but now it's time to pull back and shoot again. Now get much wider and fire again, remember you can pan across photos on your new super expensive HDTV screen. You're going for the Ken Burns effect on steroids, that's OK, this isn't Major League baseball.
You need to push your creative limits.