I shoot in vertical now. See.
This is a side of stage shot, from an Opeth live show at the start of August 2026. It was a local show to me so I said I’d come along and grab some shots for the socials
So I shot vertical. Social video means vertical video. Which doesn’t come naturally on a fairly chunky, quite heavy but compact, camera like mine.
This was the venue.
My pals Paradise Lost were main support and it was SUCH a joy to hear them live. (I filmed them too ofcourse)
Anyway. I think there’s still loads of value in shooting landscape and cropping your vertical image from that, where needed - it means you can reframe. Plus shooting oldschool landscape means you can do a proper YouTube release of an edit, like this I cut for them:
But there’s something more immediate to just rotating 90 degrees - and BANG - that’s your shot. No going back.
When I shoot landscape now - like another different show I filmed the weekend just gone - I see a lot of younger videographers look at me with (probably) pity 😭😂 But fuck that. Do what YOU do 🔥
