Which of either do you like best? Maybe neither: The snow is gone. I decided to venture out for a walk. It seems to me, that most landscapes are shot horizontal. I was wondering, if...

wbchinook Loc: Everson WA

The snow is gone. I decided to venture out for a walk.
It seems to me, that most landscapes are shot horizontal. I was wondering, if the leading lines of the old pilings, looked better in a portrait format?
Thanks for looking.

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Whuff Loc: Marshalltown, Iowa

Yes, the portrait orientation works better as a composition, eliminating a lot of stuff that you really don't need and keeping the eye from wandering.

Walt

Paladin3248 Loc: McKenzie,Tennessee

Personally I like the bottom photograph.👍

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

The vertical image has more impact in my opinion on this image. It eliminates alot of stuff not important to the composition.

erickter Loc: Dallas,TX

wbchinook wrote:

The snow is gone. I decided to venture out for a walk.
It seems to me, that most landscapes are shot horizontal. I was wondering, if the leading lines of the old pilings, looked better in a portrait format?
Thanks for looking.

#2. Portrait looks best.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Foreground in a landscape is always better.

2 has more depth feel to it.

wbchinook Loc: Everson WA

Thank you all for your input.
Most walk past this site, oblivious to once was here. These rotting pilings were once part of a large salmon canning operation. There is a nearby museum full of historic information.

Rink Loc: Tucson AZ

Yea the portrait orientation is better. The photo would be MUCH better if the foreground log happened to be the right or a position to point to the line of vertical posts. Objects that lead the eye are desirable in some (most?) situations.

Rink

wbchinook Loc: Everson WA

Rink, I am sorry, but I am not sure that I comprehend what you mean. I am an old man and cannot move the log.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

PixelStan77 wrote:

The vertical image has more impact in my opinion on this image. It eliminates alot of stuff not important to the composition.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

wbchinook wrote:

The snow is gone. I decided to venture out for a walk.
It seems to me, that most landscapes are shot horizontal. I was wondering, if the leading lines of the old pilings, looked better in a portrait format?
Thanks for looking.

I am a MFT fan - not only kit but 4/3 format. I think your pic would be ideal in 4/3 landscape. Also with some of the foreground cropped away and some of the sky - in order to enlarge everything - so that we can better see the town that the pilings are pointing to.

llindstrand Loc: Seattle Metro

wbchinook wrote:

The snow is gone. I decided to venture out for a walk.
It seems to me, that most landscapes are shot horizontal. I was wondering, if the leading lines of the old pilings, looked better in a portrait format?
Thanks for looking.

I think you have several images that you can look at. The city in the background is a nice picture by itself. There is a nice cloud emphasis on the left so I like a landscape cropping at the top of the clouds and then just enough of the tall pilings for emphasis with the short ones retreating in the water. This eliminates the dead spot of the tide flat. The stump is an image all by itself which would be my other one.
Swede

oldpsych Loc: Indianapolis

I think portrait orientation works better.

wbchinook Loc: Everson WA

Thanks again to all who responded.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

#2 for me Wayne.