jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Ah, interesting! That makes sense.

delder Loc: Maryland

Yes!
The context of the SPACE a PRINT is displayed in or an image is displayed ON can drive a decision to flip a picture.
CAUTION with Man-Made objects however, they may contain hidden tells. A train buff may be able to spot a flipped engine.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

Was anyone hurt when it flipped???

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

My two professors were a graduate of the USC's film school and the Pasadena Art Center College of Design. I took mostly classes in Cinematography Animation and commercially oriented still photography since the two of them were into those things. The one guy did a lot of short animation work and the other guy had Ford's west coast division as his main client but made time to teach because he wanted to teach.

Our youngest, Jasmine seems to be destined to mostly be on the East Coast after being born and growing up here in the LA Metro Area. Pre-Med at UCLA and now Med School at the University of Virginia. Next May I get to call her "Doctor". She is actually in her 5th year of Med School because as she put it "Those Covid Zoom classes sucked!" so she spent most of a year working as a research assistant for one of her professors so she could still remain a student. She also did a lot of the writing of the research and got her name on the paper with the professor's. Her second research paper as a co-author since she also did one under a doctor my wife had worked with for years as a Surgical RN. That research and writing was mostly done at Kaiser Los Angeles and Kaiser Riverside medical centers during her year's break after UCLA to pick a med school and go for interviews etc. She was accepted by several Med Schools and she picked UVA.

one_eyed_pete Loc: Colonie NY

It only depends if the viewer is left eyed, right eyed or one eyed!

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

It could be difficult to gauge how much effect those things may have on the way photos are viewed and comprehended -- how to gauge if there is a direct correlation.
Probably for a well-trained, experienced scientific researcher/investigator there are specific tests and criteria which can be utilized to gain insight into the answer to that.
There are other factors which likely influence swinging the ball bat, using a shovel, axe, hammer, shooting the basketball, etc. Things related to dominant / non-dominant eye, strength balance or imbalance between left side -- right side, and other inherent natural variations which make us individually more comfortable doing certain things right-sided or left-sided. Does that affect how general population (not scientific experts) people naturally view photos??? Hmmmm......

(As a complete brief diversion down a different path:
-- having worked with different livestock herding dogs, it is quite apparent some are much more naturally comfortable circling stock in a counterclockwise direction, others naturally in a clockwise direction, and some don't exhibit a natural preference for either one over the other -- circling right or circling left seems all the same to them. [Some horses exhibit right side / left side preferences, too.]
Of course, any dog which is going to be highly useful in a range of situations needs to be trained to work in each direction. It takes a lot more repetition and practice in the direction which does not come naturally to the dog, and it may never reach the same level of proficiency in each direction....the natural inclination direction may always be obviously done more fluidly and skillfully.
I contend it's not only humans who have individual right-handed / left-handed / ambidexterous tendencies.)

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Doesn't a lot of that have to do with location of throttle (mostly) and rear brake pedal?
The physiological alignment factors of having the throttle wrist down and under as compared to up and on top seems to affect my comfort/discomfort in the turning comparisons both in pavement- and dirt- riding.
I rode an early sixties Triumph bike (made before left shift - right brake standardization) for a couple or three weeks. All my previous motorcycle riding had been on Japanese bikes, and the right foot shift - left foot brake on the Triumph was a little learning curve, but not terrible, but, in that amount of time, I never did get as comfortable with left hand turns on that bike as compared to left turns on Japanese bikes.
In dirt-riding, it is more comfortable to keep my right foot near the brake pedal in a left turn than it is to drop the right foot down for posting a right turn.

In some things we just have to train and practice and train and practice and train and practice in order to do them with any degree of acceptability, if there is a natural tendency to be uncomfortable / awkward / inept / klutz-prone in the doing.

Is the way we view photos influenced by repetitive training for those who've had extensive instructions in photography compared against those of us who just muddle along by seat-of-the-pants "this way seems natural"?

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Another addition to the fun and games.

I have a rather unusual problem when it comes to the orientation of things. I am right handed, but left eye dominant. As a result things get a bit mixed up for me and several things I have taught myself to do ambidextrously but usually just a bit slower when doing them left handed.

In the Army when my company was getting our requalifications before shipping out to Vietnam I was in a bit of a "mood" so I was shooting right handed, then flipping the rifle up and catching it to shoot left handed for a few shots then back again. The people in my unit had seen me do that before but the Rangemaster almost had a stroke. Then he realized that not only was I scoring "Expert" with both hands but I was also firing at about twice the rate of everyone else. The 150 meter popup target on my lane was broken, it would go just far enough down when hit to indicate a score then pop right back up. I ripped off a whole 20 round magazine so fast it sounded like full auto and the target looked like a flag flapping in the wind. The Rangemaster was right behind me and told my scorer "I don't know if all 20 were hits but give him a score of 20. And tell him not to get mad at me."

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

I have owned/ridden many bikes over some 50 years of motorcycles - American, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, and mostly Japanese, and by my recollection, at least, it has made no difference. Dealing with control position differences has been no problem. Different handling characteristics and power utilization (on-the-pipe vs pull from any rpm) take a little getting used to, depending on the riding situation, but very little. Again, as I recall, left turn vs right was the same with all.

As an aside, at one time I owned two cars - one a stick and the other automatic - which I drove interchangeably. I never once tried to shift the automatic or stalled the stick by forgetting to use the clutch.

I think the key to this situation is that we all are different - in many ways! There may be occasional exceptions, but for the most part, when I look at a picture, I look at the whole thing, and either like it or don't. If someone has pointed out some particular aspect of the photo, I usually will look at that first, however. And again, when it's a picture I have taken, I do with it that which pleases me, unless someone has a specific request I will fill.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

These particular, specific questions have kept resurfacing in the obscure corners in the back of this dustie mind.
Soooo........
I tried an unscientific, unguided test.
Picking more than a couple dozen photos I've taken, I viewed them each way, as yours are presented here. None of the photos have any items that would provide "tells" indicating a correct or backward presentation.

The unscientific result is:
•• some of the reversed/flipped photos stir an immediate, strong revulsion reaction, and going back for looking at them a few times over a space of three or four hours, does not help to make them seem acceptable in the reversed position.

•• some of the reversed photos seem just a little bit "off", not terrible, in the first few looks, but after going back and looking at them a few times, they really don't look "wrong" anymore.

•• some of the reversed photos leave no impression of being "off" nor "wrong" at any time.

I am not able to pinpoint any obvious, specific, common characteristics which make a reversed photo seem either yuck!!!!; hmmmm.....I could get used to it; or, just fine either way.

Unscientific conclusion:
When the person who took and processed a photo sees it presented in a reversed presentation, there may be more to this than meets the eye, (considering of course, I may not be a scientifically viable, normal candidate for such a test. 🤓 🥴 )

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Perception.....