Aspect Ratio is VERY important: 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 9:19.5?!

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[razanabz]

No music, no intro, no usual YouTube setup, yet it's very thorough to the point. Thank you for the clean and clear content

[HelliOnurb]

Why am I so stressed about aspect ratios now? I don't even own a camera.

[daceuro]

Perhaps the best solution right now is to shoot with a high resolution camera with sharp glass and DONT fill the frame. Leave a lot of negative space around the subject and you can crop however you’d like.

[BagelsBagelsBagels]

6:21 Tony casually tossing away that magazine, like my ex with my happiness.

[WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

I hate Hate HATE vertical format video. There are good reasons for shooting some stills in vertical format but NEVER a good reason for shooting video like that. Why are some (many) people so pin-headed that they can't turn their phones 90 degrees and shoot properly? Portrait video on landscape screens just looks awful and even if you just view it on a phone and don't rotate it to landscape, our eyes are built to see things in landscape mode and it just doesn't look right.

[dragonfist]

Funny you posted this video. I just did a family photo shoot and it turned out good. The problem was I didn’t plan for 8 x 10 and they can’t use the shots to hang on their wall. I’ll have to re-shoot again in spring so this was a good learning experience. Definitely not a boring video or topic because this is important information for new photographers like myself.

[SpecialBrewCan]

35mm (3:2) has been popular for well over a hundred years, and was still the most popular film size when digital full-frame and ASP-C (also both 3:2) took over. Yet try and buy a 3:2 photograph frame larger than 6"x4" and you just can't, unless you have them custom made. This has absolutely frustrated me for years, and I just don't understand why frame manufacturers don't make frames in the world's most popular aspect ratio, and it just doesn't make sense that they don't, so I'm really pleased to find I'm not frustrated on my own!

[dineshsinghkachave]

Seeing this in 2021 .... He predicted future of photography

[colinedwards]

One thing people never seem to think of. If you are capturing video of an event that might be newsworthy, hold your phone horizontally. All TV is landscape and your video will be used in preference to tall thin ones.

[kylewolfe_]

This is a great video and brings up some important points that really aren't discussed enough. When I first got into photography I just shot everything in horizontal and cropped to 16:9 because it looked the best on computer screens, but as I started to get more popular on instagram I made the conscious choice to shoot more in vertical and square. Last year I got so caught up in shooting vertical 4:5 images that I prioritized it over horizontal wide crops. When it came time to putting together a calendar I was panicking because I needed to fill the page with horizontal images. I ended up doing some pretty cringe worthy horizontal 8.5:11 crops of the vertical images with a crap ton on content aware filling to expand the frame. As much as I'd like to say that I've learned, I still end up having to do this every couple months to fill the needs of a certain format. But I try to shoot wider and in multiple different orientations to meet as many formats as possible.

[simon_patterson]

High mp cameras give us the opportunity to leave a little more space around our subjects for cropping. Usually it's worth leaving some room to crop later.

[MadsPeterIversen]

I hate that instagram force-crops my vertical 2:3, unless I apply white boarders in 3rd party apps...

[diblaze]

No one seems to talk about aspect ratio, so I appreciate this video. Any photographer who starts printing their work runs into this issue immediately! I've learned to shoot wide so I have ample cropping flexibility for client photo sizes, and I crop everything myself to the clients print size desire inside Lightroom. I don't leave it up to the lab! This is just another piece of the puzzle to becoming a well rounded photographer.

[johndarkification]

I think the best solution to cover all aspects is to shoot with a high megapixel camera and leave enough border to crop to most common formats. Taking many images of the same thing cropped differently​ just seems to ruin the moment in my opinion.

[bodiejunior]

I use many different aspect-ratios. I use 3:2, 6:4, 8:12, 4:6, 12:8 and 2:3 and sometimes, when I feel like doing something cool, I use 15:10!

[eknight]

Especially important for good stock photography, you have banners, buttons of a myriad of sizes and once you found a good image to carry your message, you fiddle with fills, crops etc. like mad. Hence best to shoot a series of different formats and angles that have different formats in mind. At least in ad space that gets your stuff sold better, assuming that the basic quality is alrihht as well.

[AmiteshwarMann]

Great video. Changing aspect ratios during dialogue made all the difference.

[DiablyOo]

Every advise Tony gives translates into more storage space. More photos for aspect ratios, more photos for better luck, etc etc.

[cjmartin]

Got to agree with your thoughts here Tony. It's funny I'm still pretty amateur but in the last year or so after switching to Micro Four Thirds it's amazing how much the cropping affects pictures. I had this issue last night after doing a mini Christmas shoot at home with my toddler. We hung six 8x10 frames on the wall and then tried to pick out the best 6 pictures but found out that we only had 3 keeper horizontal. And even then to get them printed I had to crop them in Lightroom to fit the aspect ratio which worked out OK for some but for one it cut off a hand and is unusable. I wish I knew this before starting the shoot that I wanted to have six horizontal 8x10 when all was said and done.

[SeeMeBeSeen]

thank you so much for making these videos that talk about things you don't usually see in other videos.  you're still literally the only channel i've ever seen discuss that crop factor has an effect on aperture as well as focal length! thanks again.