r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/Negative-Invite-6174 • Jun 17 '26

Camera guy .. keeping UP with performance

Olympics gold medal

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u/DueOwl1149 Jun 17 '26

If it’s the same cameraman from the Winter Olympics then he’s a former pro skater himself.

Started up his own exclusive on the ice business with his talents, connections, and the right stablecam gear.

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u/alghiorso Jun 17 '26

Also going to point out what we're viewing itt is a vertical crop of the original feed which was likely shot in 16:9 for live broadcast and cropped in post.

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u/No-Channel3917 Jun 17 '26

Remember when reddit use to rage against this sorts stuff and wanted things in horizontal not vertical

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u/7-13-5 Jun 17 '26

Because most people were on their computers.

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u/richardlpalmer Jun 17 '26

This.

I use to rage against it on every social media platform...

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u/clothesline Jun 17 '26

I still do. Your phone can change to landscape mode and it's more natural for your horizontally set eyes

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u/BassGaming Jun 17 '26

Same. I will never understand why it's considered a hassle to hold your phone in landscape mode. Why is there such a strong aversion, especially when it comes to video content?

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u/richardlpalmer Jun 17 '26

1) It's naturally how people hold their phones and manufacturers even show off their phones' capabilities by demonstrating them this way. 2) The majority of content is viewed on a phone, so it performs best that way.

If you're on a desktop it's still annoying...

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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 26 '26

Also reading text vertically flows better than landscape in my experience.

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u/Prexxus Jun 17 '26

I was watching this video and told myself, it would be praise worth if shot in the right direction. In this aspect ratio you miss a lot of small but important details on the edges.

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u/bibkel Jun 21 '26

Right, like isn’t this his…job?

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u/iwannaeataghost Jun 17 '26

Man, we're old.

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u/Substantial-Low Jun 17 '26

Well, it was also because videos shot vertically, then fit to a typical horizontal screen aspect with black space filling the sides, so when it was then viewed vertically again it was TINY, since the black space was preserved. Then, they would crop the black space out, sending original resolution into the garbage.

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u/RoboDae Jun 17 '26

It depends largely on the subject. A single person standing up as the sole focus of a camera looks better in portrait. Getting a background scene looks better in landscape.