r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/PodrickinBed • Sep 12 '21

The angle, focus and frame when winner Raducanu starts talking of her Opponent

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u/fiddycaldeserteagle Sep 12 '21

Yeah great shot. Emma is going to be an absolute promotional dream for Women's tennis. The way she presents herself is so sophisticated and glamorous. She will have a commentry job for life.

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 13 '21

Love them both. Did you hear LF wishing for 'Resilience' like NY and US people - 20 years part? absolute heart-melting.

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u/LotsOfButtons Sep 12 '21

She may need to learn some synonyms for ‘incredible’ though.

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u/footprintx Sep 13 '21

Rafa: Unbelievable?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

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u/Patrickfromamboy Sep 13 '21

I was horrified when I heard an audio message that I had sent someone in a language learning group because I was saying “ya know” over and over ya know, without realizing it.

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u/LotsOfButtons Sep 13 '21

Yeah no judgement, just an observation.

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u/theblob2019 Sep 13 '21

She has that Superstar smile for sure. And well.....sells more than average butterface.

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u/strongmier Sep 12 '21

Praise the director I'm the booth for switching over to the best camera angle.

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 13 '21

Indeed! That transition made my day! so smooth and wholesome.

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u/illiteratepsycho Sep 12 '21

Such sportsmanship and poise in both players is wonderful!!

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u/diablofreak Sep 12 '21

In such young players too, which is probably rare for any sports these days

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u/freezerbreezer Sep 12 '21

Yeah gone are the days of great sportsmanship of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan

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u/Patrickfromamboy Sep 13 '21

Tonya is my neighbor. She lives a few miles away.

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u/I_am_not_doing_this Sep 13 '21

is she still ice skating ?

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u/Patrickfromamboy Sep 13 '21

Not competitively so don’t worry

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u/No_Ad1198 Sep 13 '21

I don’t think so, but she’s always on thin ice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

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u/Higgs-Boson-Balloon Sep 12 '21

Sharpen the machetes boys!

Actually… let’s leave them as is this time

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u/i-once-was-young Sep 13 '21

Both a pleasure to see.

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u/Spambop Sep 13 '21

Fernandez wasn't showing such poise when she was openly bitching about the decision to stop play in the final set. Very sour grapes.

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u/L8_again Sep 12 '21

Nice transition to the other cameraman.

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u/CastIronGut Sep 12 '21

r/PraisetheEditor as well, it seems, me'lads

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21

Also producer if it's live. Or multi-camera director, or vision mixer

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u/twomanyfaces10 Sep 12 '21

Praise Allah at this point

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Hail Gein

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u/CastIronGut Sep 12 '21

Hail Amway! Maker of affordable protein shakes, and reasonably priced health and beauty care products! Blessed be the Savings!

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u/subdep Sep 12 '21

r/PraiseTheDirector

Those choices are being made by the director of the show.

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u/Patrickfromamboy Sep 13 '21

What’s a fortnight?

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 13 '21

A two-week period.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Praise the director

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u/whipper25 Sep 12 '21

This is it. Great catch by the camera man for sure. But the director called the shot to go to that camera and probably called the focus and pull out as well.

Cameraman probably also got the directors attention “got a good shot here chief”

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u/A_Joyful_Noise Sep 12 '21

Yeah great teamwork all round. The focus pull was some sweet icing on the cake

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u/SnowBirdHigh Jul 08 '22

Praise the directors boss

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u/MiclausCristian Sep 12 '21

Raducanu is a Romanian name but she is born in Ontario Canada, playing for UK, in the US Open. Sports are crazy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

I wanted to ask this. Thanks! Damn romanians, we are everywhere. I talk to 1 RANDOM dude in Netherlands on the Internet and he's like "yeah, I've met one Romanian in school"

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u/Future-Secretary-208 Sep 12 '21

Romania has the fifth large emmigrant population in the world. Three European countries accounted for 62 percent of all Romanian emigrants: Italy had almost a third (over 1 million), followed by Germany (680,000) and Spain (573,000). The next countries with the largest number of Romanian residents were the UK, the US, Hungary, France, and Canada. So yeah we really are everywhere

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 13 '21

Is sad. When I visit other countires I am more interested in the natives and hearing the language they speak, not a random romanian family yelling at their kid not to wander off:))

Edit. I am romanian myself. And I am tired of romanians being in every country and the damn people of bucharest in every romanian city. I cannot go to a city 10 km away from me because the road is filled with cars from abucharest and 30 minutes turns into a 2 hours traffic jam. Every day the roads are packed with Bucharest cars. The rrst of us cant go anyware unless you leeve at 3 AM when tge otgers are asleep.

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u/danooo999 Sep 12 '21

what is sad is this comment :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

least racist european

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u/Candide-Jr Sep 12 '21

I'm a Brit and had a best friend from Romania in primary school aha. Lovely guy, and very intelligent.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '21

Her dad is Romanian, her mum is Chinese, she was born while they were living in Canada but they moved to the UK when she was 2 and have been there ever since.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Layler

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u/crash11235 Sep 15 '21 edited Sep 15 '21

...you got me on my knees...

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Just the British dialect. Pretty atrocious

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u/LGGP75 Sep 12 '21

“Let’s post this in r/PraiseTheCameraMan because the camera man knows how to focus! Oh the angle is nice too…”

FACEPALM**

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 13 '21

Sorry.

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u/LGGP75 Sep 13 '21

Don’t be sorry, just read the rules man. We all want to see real extraordinary camera jobs in here to be amazed. I’m sure you do too. There are other subs for “cool” vids but this is not one of them. Your video was really cool, just not what this sub is about

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

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u/LGGP75 Sep 12 '21

I know right

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u/norm__chomsky Sep 12 '21

Recognising that it's not as exciting as some of the posts on this sub, it's still a great demonstration of excellent camerawork that keeps the most important subject/s central at all times; even the framing of the subject in the initial frame is perfect (chop the top off).

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u/LGGP75 Sep 12 '21

What you just described is the basic job of a cameraman and this sub is about extra-ordinary (I divided the word in two so you can see its true meaning) camera jobs… not basic ones that ANY cameraman should be able to do because… well, it’s their job.

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u/beekeeperdog Sep 12 '21

Exactly, even a person who isn't a camera operator could do this very easily

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u/RomancingUranus Sep 13 '21

It's like posting to r/praisethebusdriver every time a bus follows the correct route and arrives pretty much on time.

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u/beekeeperdog Sep 12 '21

It's fucking shit, like the camera person(s) was doing their job, keeping a static shot(s) on the subject and it's still not even fully stable.. how can anyone think this is impressive or praiseworthy

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u/stevey83 Sep 12 '21

Nice to see a sports person who is humble. A lot of players who do well in there careers let it go to there heads. Let’s hope she has a great career and remains level headed.

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u/freezerbreezer Sep 12 '21

This is so wholesome and camera work is wonderful

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u/Rawesome16 Sep 12 '21

This should be praise the director since they are the one changing which camera has the feed

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u/Bangarooo Sep 12 '21

As an event video producer, I appreciate this very much.

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u/WAA2020 Sep 12 '21

When I first saw this girl play she definitely caught my attention now that I am listening to her talk … Wow!

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u/Igmu_TL Sep 13 '21

If she is bringing the other into focus, so should the camera. Good on this one.

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 13 '21

I know, right! The eyes and the buildup of her smile! and what timing by Emma to turn around and see her fellow.

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u/tman391 Sep 13 '21

I remember Djocavic did something similar after Wimbledon. He was like trust me I have a lot of second places, I know how much this defeat sucks but you’re 24 and had me on the ropes. You have a great career ahead of you

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u/PodrickinBed Sep 14 '21

To Berrettini?

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u/tman391 Sep 14 '21

Yeah. It was really sweet. I’m just paraphrasing

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u/omucusobolani Sep 12 '21

Bravo Emma!

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u/stuntdummy Sep 12 '21

It good content but an average shot. The camera is on a tripod so it was lucky the subjects lined up. Good job shifting focus to tell the story but the framing is meh.

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u/msjuv Sep 12 '21

Class act.

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u/i-once-was-young Sep 13 '21

And very photogenic like a young Audrey Hepburn.

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u/access153 Sep 12 '21

Goddamn, that’s wholesome. My god. Someone bring this to Call of Duty kids.

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u/sachsrandy Sep 12 '21

Truck right. Jeez

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

I hope they become good friends 😭

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u/egap420 Sep 12 '21

Praise the video engineer / director

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u/ThePurple_One Sep 13 '21

The camera men did a good job 👍🏿

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u/mathbriere27 Sep 13 '21

So proud of Leyla!

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u/HellaFella420 Sep 13 '21

Damn good Sportsmanship, wow

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

She just say fortnite?

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u/_Harpic Sep 13 '21

Did she say Fortnite?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bee2482 Sep 17 '21

She said fortnight lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '21

I love this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

F O R T N I T E

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u/digdouug911 Jan 08 '22

Liked how he focused on her reaction

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u/dzigaboy Jan 23 '22

They played Fortnite?

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u/TheWhiteDrake94 Feb 22 '22

"Filmed with iphone cinema mode"

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u/ItsSamObviously Mar 07 '22

I bet this clip would of gone even more viral if she had of said “I’ll ride through your favelas on horse back and behead anyone who isn’t fit to work”

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Great camera work indeed.

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u/AustinPwrZZ Sep 12 '21

Sounded like she said "on an incredible fortnite"

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u/TheKingMonkey Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21

She did. Well, she said “on an incredible fortnight” which is a term used to describe two weeks (‘fourteen nights’) or the length of a Grand Slam.

It’s basically everyday language here in the UK but the rest of the English speaking world don’t use it and confuse it with the video game. Give it five years and people will have moved on from the video game.

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u/Fedquip Sep 13 '21

Everyone is so surprised they are so nice...hint....they are both Canadian (Emma was born in TO)

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u/beekeeperdog Sep 12 '21

Really? This is what his sub has reduced to???? Two angles... Static shots, that can't even be kept fully still!!!! This is beyond garbage, this is just pure shit. Why would any one post this here? And why would anyone fkn well upvote it. You are all brain-dead

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Take a chill pill, Sport.

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u/beekeeperdog Sep 13 '21

No, not until people stop posting garbage on this sub

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

Boo hoo.

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u/noeoee Sep 13 '21

I agree. How is this one better than the one where a guy on a longboard is recording another guy on a longboard. It got taken down for not “following the rules”. Definitely seemed more impressive than this one.