Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "Wide" Portraits
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:26:44 -0800

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