Talk:Wide shot

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)

Requested move 24 February 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Seems fairly straightforward. 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 @ 22:36, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Exactly, the current title may be confused with the phrase about something with a low chance of winning. feminist (talk) 02:54, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


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A “long shot” is exactly the opposite of a “wide shot”, not the same thing
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)


 * Note that the problem/confusion extends to the longshot disambiguation page as well. 67.185.21.25 (talk) 03:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)