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this article is very bad and needs to be deleted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.118.168 ( talk) 23:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. Seems fairly straightforward. ( closed by non-admin page mover) OhKayeSierra ( talk) 14:50, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Long shot →
Wide shot – This technique is more commonly known as a "wide shot" in everyday use. "Long shot" was only used in a somewhat jargon-y filmmaking context, and indeed many newer filmmaking books are moving more and more to just calling this a "wide shot". The current title is also easily confused with a shot taken for a long time (a
long take) or confused with the everyday phrase which describes something which has a low chance of winning.
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As far as I’ve ever known for decades (expertise at least in still photography) “long shot” refers to the use of a long lens, often to shoot a subject close-up but from a distance, i.e., with depth-of-field compression. This is exactly the opposite of a “wide” or “establishing” shot, which seems to be the intended topic of this article. The ‘move history’ of this article, plus it’s current lede text, seem to confuse and conflate these. The lede should be fixed to omit, or not conflate “long shot”, or clarify that it means the opposite of “wide shot” 67.185.21.25 ( talk) 03:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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this article is very bad and needs to be deleted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.118.168 ( talk) 23:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. Seems fairly straightforward. ( closed by non-admin page mover) OhKayeSierra ( talk) 14:50, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Long shot →
Wide shot – This technique is more commonly known as a "wide shot" in everyday use. "Long shot" was only used in a somewhat jargon-y filmmaking context, and indeed many newer filmmaking books are moving more and more to just calling this a "wide shot". The current title is also easily confused with a shot taken for a long time (a
long take) or confused with the everyday phrase which describes something which has a low chance of winning.
Netoholic
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22:36, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
As far as I’ve ever known for decades (expertise at least in still photography) “long shot” refers to the use of a long lens, often to shoot a subject close-up but from a distance, i.e., with depth-of-field compression. This is exactly the opposite of a “wide” or “establishing” shot, which seems to be the intended topic of this article. The ‘move history’ of this article, plus it’s current lede text, seem to confuse and conflate these. The lede should be fixed to omit, or not conflate “long shot”, or clarify that it means the opposite of “wide shot” 67.185.21.25 ( talk) 03:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)