The publisher chose a different cover design and that's their prerogative; but I think they left a lot of business on the table since beautiful women trumps still life and commercial photography collage any day of the week.
I re-read that book today over a tuna sandwich at Thundercloud's sandwich shop. It stands up well. Of all the technical books I've written I have to say that the writing, the information and the images are the very best of my endeavors.
There were some photos in the book that put me back in the mindset of shooting to the square; something I think it well leveraged by the EVF finder cameras. One can set the aspect ratio to 1:1 and the finder shows the exact crop with no extraneous distraction. Very nice.
And I'm sure you know where I am going with this..... yes, the Sony RX10iii has a wide range of settable aspect ratios, at your vision's service. Just cue them up and shoot. "Yes!" He said, "I will."
The video rough cut is out the door. Time to play for a while......
Oh yeah, and buy the book! Commercial Photography Handbook. Read it like a novel....
Interesting that the RX10 III can set various aspect ratios. Call me crazy, I like shooting some events in 16:9 (smartphone) ratio.
ReplyDeleteI change the aspect ratio of my GX7 to square on a regular basis. I've actually started using my blad and rollei again just because I just love the format and wet printing.
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