Close Call
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I hate that this all came from a widescreen video but was edited to vertical.
Probably to make it compatible with YouTube shorts
StevenFromTexas
Getting comfortable
I think those two are made for each other. 
I appreciate you didn't copy the "crash landing" part. From what can bee seen in the video, the aircraft looks undamaged. A similar bogus headline is about a couple of goarounds at DCA (Regan) last Thursday. Some posts and stories are calling them "close calls", when the reality was that ATC ordered the goarounds to avoid the risk of close calls.
I actually find vertical videos hard to watch, and find myself bypassing them most times.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
And if there are fuzzy, animated pillar bars on either side you can bet your life that I ESPECIALLY won't be watching the video....talk about giving me a headache!
I've been an advocate against VVS from day one. However, lately I've come to realize that most people with whom I share videos (taken by my phone) will be watching them on their phones - not a widescreen TV in the living room. And, while it would mean viewers would have to turn their phones 90° to watch it in full screen, I think most don't. So they end up watching a thumbnail-sized widescreen video on a vertical phone with the black bars at the top and bottom.
So, now when it's a quick video and I can fit everything into a vertical space, I stay vertical. I figure everyone who sees it (in my audience) will be on a cell phone anyway.
So, now when it's a quick video and I can fit everything into a vertical space, I stay vertical. I figure everyone who sees it (in my audience) will be on a cell phone anyway.
Flintstone61
Known around here
Sometimes shit happens fast and you just record. But I prefer capturing in horiz. but mostly because of my whiny OCD friend Chris R. of Columbia Heights who shall remain nameless. 
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I, too, hate vertical videos. But I do see the point if the only people watching will be watching on a phone, and they will be holding it vertically. I also hate the way people tend to crop things when filming and photographing. I've been a photographer since I was about 6 years old and my dad showed me how to develop film and make prints in the darkroom he built into the house where I grew up.
But I will say that modern cell phones have put decent cameras into the hands of almost everyone, and as a result, we get to see photos and videos of so many things that we'd never see without them. And the automatic focus and exposure, and the more modern AI type camera features mean that virtually anyone has the ability to make those videos and photos turn out reasonably well. Having that technology in hand doesn't mean that everyone becomes a good photographer, but it at least gives them a chance!
The same goes for security cameras. We get to see a LOT of interesting things these days because someone's security camera captured it. When I worked as a photographer for a newspaper back in the '70s, we had to carry lots of film and spent quite a bit of time developing, printing, and halftone screening every shot that needed to be published. Now, things are quick and easy. AND, almost everyone can get those on-the-scene shots for us, even if they're being chased by a bear or dodging debris from a tornado at the time!
But I will say that modern cell phones have put decent cameras into the hands of almost everyone, and as a result, we get to see photos and videos of so many things that we'd never see without them. And the automatic focus and exposure, and the more modern AI type camera features mean that virtually anyone has the ability to make those videos and photos turn out reasonably well. Having that technology in hand doesn't mean that everyone becomes a good photographer, but it at least gives them a chance!
The same goes for security cameras. We get to see a LOT of interesting things these days because someone's security camera captured it. When I worked as a photographer for a newspaper back in the '70s, we had to carry lots of film and spent quite a bit of time developing, printing, and halftone screening every shot that needed to be published. Now, things are quick and easy. AND, almost everyone can get those on-the-scene shots for us, even if they're being chased by a bear or dodging debris from a tornado at the time!
