Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geeezzz. Just use a Rollei and shoot square. Then you have no problems. - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 12:27 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] "Wide" Portraits Greg Locke wrote: > > As was so adroitly pointed out to me once... > > Are your eyes side-by-side or one on top of the other? > > or... > > Ever see a vertical motion picture screen? > > It is human nature to "see" in panorama. The only reason I go vertical is > when using a wideangle lens to accentuate a strong foreground/background > juxtaposition... a technique as opposed to a natural perception. > > Greetings from the bar at Halifax airport!!! > CHEERS ALL!! > Hanging up at Pro Photo in Oregon is a display of 8 vertical panaramics. IN any Chinese restaurant they seem to have been going on for quite a few millenniums. A long history of vertical landscape! But The Great Wall seems pretty horizontal!? Horizontal means "portrait" right Eric? :) Mark Rabiner