Cinematic Photography. The 1:2.35 format will change your photography forever.

[@CameraMystique]

*00:01**​ Background and my story on it **01:06**​ The Super Panavision 70 **01:26**​ The GOOD part - be impressed. **02:28**​ Put your FAMILY pictures in the Movie Theater **03:40**​ Best story-telling format ever! **05:04**​ The magic of the wide small crop*

[@Elizabethsosa-n6m]

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[@RichardBO9]

Wow! Just tried this on some of my photos.Really like how it changed them. Thanks!

[@thomaseriksson6256]

I liked the 6*9cm format on Fuji GW690III

[@sebastiang7183]

I always enjoy your videos. They are well researched and well thought out. I usually find something valuable that I can't find elsewhere.

[@skfirojali2429]

That's really amazing 😘

[@eugeneBai]

Your channel is mind blowing! Every video I watch on your channel opens my eyes to so many things that no one talks about! Thank you very very much! 🙏I'm now starting to rethink my whole photography and the gears I use.

[@CameraMystique]

Check out the Playlists, this channel is organized in Playlists.

[@eugeneBai]

​@@CameraMystique Thanks! Thanks! I will look all videos while carefully taking notes✍

[@admintilburgers]

Yes, that is a great format, and I use it also a lot for 'headers' on a website. The 20mm lens is very suited for these crops, as they normally can contain 'empty' foregrounds and too much sky...

[@CameraMystique]

Any focal really, but I prefer normal, because you avoid any hint of distortion in the edges, which will kill the cinematic "wide view" effect (that's where the charm is), replacing it with "wide angle effect". But it also true what you say that it is a neat way of getting rid of empty boring skies or too much foreground.

[@admintilburgers]

@@CameraMystique Yes I agree that 35-50mm range would be the best. With regard to the 20mm lens, when in the cropping process, it is also an advantage to crop the edges as well. I have even used wider than 1:2.35. Facebook-headers (and Wordpress themes) are usually wider, and Twitter in the past. The special 'cinematic' effect is less when using a even wider image, somehow.

[@miljo2146]

Awesome, works really well if you have boring sky/foreground. Puts the focus on the subject much more. I have printed panoramas in a similar format unintentionally and the prints turned out great.

[@CameraMystique]

Exactly. The only difficulty is the price (the lab will waste lots of paper to just print a "long stripe", unless they can print 2 of them on the same paper square). Another difficulty is that you have to order a custom size frame, but this is easier to get around (you find a little larger one and you add asymmetrical borders on the image itself in Photoshop --> Canvas size). And it's not like you'll print many of those anyway... impossible to store them nicely, they are only for the wall, and no house will tolerate more than 4.

[@miljo2146]

@@CameraMystique yes, it's a give and take like everything else in photography. But very interesting method to apply every now and then 👍🏻

[@jacobjurg3746]

Another inspiring vid, thank you! I just tried it out with some of my wildlife shots and I like it, but I need to start shooting with this ratio in mind to make the most of it I guess.

[@CameraMystique]

It's difficult to re-wire your brain to see it though. In the sense that you may start shooting with that in mind, but end up squeezing the new format into yet another 2:3. I say shoot what you want, *just make sure you include all elements you want in the image from side to side,* and then crop for a surprise!

[@jacobjurg3746]

@@CameraMystique I will just do that! Might come back here to discuss the results. Thanks again!

[@zaharib]

Another fabulous video sir 😊 A general question for you if I may. If you were going to print a “ general” photobook of photos of your family and friends doing various social things at various outings… what percentage of the photos would you present using this particular aspect ratio? As great as it is… perhaps not a great idea to have ALL the pictures cropped using 2.35:1 😊 So perhaps mixing it up with some 4:3 or 3:2 crops would be a good idea. So I guess my question is… if you are presenting a series of photos using predominantly 2.35:1, what are your personal thoughts on how to use and mix other ratios that might work well to complement this 2.35:1 ratio. On a side note… must be some 15 years ago before I knew anything about aspect ratios, i was at a hifi show and walked into a room with a Leica? projector and was blown away by the movie being shown thinking omg it’s so WIDE!!!! 😂 Have to say your videos have such great value in them. Thanks so much!!! By the way. What camera do you use for many of the personal shots you show us in your examples?

[@CameraMystique]

None. Landscape-type books are not that big, and they don't come that wide. So it'll be a waste of space and the pic would be relatively small. To get that effect you must go way beyond the "standard" 3:2, which leaves too much empty room up and down even in a landscape-type book. These books are generally very low resolution, and whatever is inside the pic would look too small and unclear in a long narrow image. The 1:2.35 or thereabouts is great for large (and expensive) prints. Example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYPbhIpsfpeso68

[@longrider9551]

SOOC do you think the impact changes if you eliminate the top/bottom border? I ask because many people order borderless or small white borders

[@CameraMystique]

Maybe. Try it!

[@CameraMystique]

The only problem I have found when you remove borders, is that you frame the pic and the frame itself cuts about 1/4th of an inch. *And it's also difficult to always match a photograph with "either black or white" frames.* That's why I print them with a border nowadays. I do not think that cropping them at this cinema ratio and then adding a border would be a problem. I think it'll be better than leaving the image without borders.

[@longrider9551]

@@CameraMystique I just ordered a dozen prints of the same photo in 3 different sizes and 4 different border configurations just as a test, you got me thinking very good topic 🙏

[@CameraMystique]

@@longrider9551 The company Art to Frames has the option of customized frames. And if you remind them a couple of weeks after your order, they will also send them to you. The same company has tons of sizes on Amazon in some of their frames ready to send, but a lot more on their own website.

[@longrider9551]

@@CameraMystique they are 5 minutes from where I work!!