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Seeing that shot in Jaws as a High School student was the first time I realized how the director and cinematographer were doing more than just pointing the camera and recording what the actors did... that the use of the camera was art in its own...

Yes IMHO. Nothing leaps out to me as being anything other than that. At this point the whole farce just reminds me of the Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. Classic. Can also happen 'accidentally' by walking backwards trying to keep a moving...

Seeing that shot in Jaws as a High School student was the first time I realized how the director and cinematographer were doing more than just pointing the camera and recording what the actors did... that the use of the camera was art in its own...

You've given us a primer on professional portrait photography. Does that have anything to do with a rehab photo of McConnell? Or was it just an informal picture quickly taken with a phone (by a reporter, perhaps, not a professional photographer)...

Having watched @Mick West's Sitrec tutorials (https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sitrec-tutorial-videos.14736/post-365646) I wonder if the lack of precise alignment is due to the location only being approximate. I set the camera for roughly the...

A classic effect to exploit in cinematography - the "Vertigo" zoom: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0 Lots of examples within, the most famous ones such as Vertigo, and Jaws, but plenty of others from more modern genres (less...

A classic effect to exploit in cinematography - the "Vertigo" zoom: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0 Lots of examples within, the most famous ones such as Vertigo, and Jaws, but plenty of others from more modern genres (less...

So far it seems that people, for the most part, are accepting this as a genuine photo. I briefly touched on that in post #33. The new conspiracy theory that I'm attempting to debunk is the idea that this new proof of life photo shows that...

Two photos taken from this primer on the effects of perspective distortion and portrait photography. https://learn.zoner.com/why-should-i-zoom-in-for-portraits/ Shortest possible lesson. Entirely visual. Why you don't get up close to your...

You've given us a primer on professional portrait photography. Does that have anything to do with a rehab photo of McConnell? Or was it just an informal picture quickly taken with a phone (by a reporter, perhaps, not a professional photographer)...

Joseph II was deaf because he had no ears, according to Salieri. Ear: In music, having "an ear" refers to the capacity to perceive, analyze, and recreate auditory elements like pitch, rhythm, harmony, timbre, and tonal relationships...

Youtube recommended that original viral video so I wanted to see what that object was as well. Thanks to the group's sleuthing and a few minutes of search I think I'm pretty sure it's this: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kuBAsWY-c...

Sorry, but I just had to capture this (assumed) typo cos it's brilliant.

It's likely a helicopter, someone on Reddit has already done all the work so I'll share their comment This looks like a helicopter, probably something like an EC-135 or similar based on the tail, traveling away from the camera... not an object...

Sorry, but I just had to capture this (assumed) typo cos it's brilliant.