Portrait or landscape?
Jan 6, 2023 13:52:59 #
Whatever happened to the terms horizontal and vertical? I've see plenty of vertical landscapes and horizontal portraits.
Jan 6, 2023 14:15:22 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
Whatever happened to the terms horizontal and vertical? I've see plenty of vertical landscapes and horizontal portraits.
Synonyms... Vertical/portrait; landscape/horizontal.
Some prefer one format reference over the other.
Landscape and portrait are also types of photos, as well as orientation.....
One can have a portrait in a landscape format;
and of course vice-versa.
Jan 6, 2023 15:55:03 #
fourlocks wrote:
My winter screen saver is generally a photo reminding me of a nice, warm summer day. I took this photo last June and it's presently my iMac's screen saver. However, my synced iPad decided to display the photo in portrait mode effectively cropping the landscape format into a portrait format.
Which format do you think provides the better picture? Why? Would you crop either, further? I'm interested because several friends had differing opinions.
Which format do you think provides the better picture? Why? Would you crop either, further? I'm interested because several friends had differing opinions.
No difference. They are equal.
Jan 6, 2023 15:58:46 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
Whatever happened to the terms horizontal and vertical? I've see plenty of vertical landscapes and horizontal portraits.
Hogsters stringently shun anything thaz even verrrry slightly tinged with math. I thought you knew that.
Jan 6, 2023 16:02:12 #
SonyA580 wrote:
To quote film director John Ford in the movie The Fablemans ...., "You can put the horizon at the bottom or the top ..., never in the middle". I'm testing this theory with the attached rendition of your picture. I did not crop the picture but used PS to stretch the canvas vertically putting the horizon in the upper 1/3 of the frame. I'd be interested in hearing comments, one way or the other.
Cine is cine, stills are stills.
No connection.
Jan 6, 2023 18:15:49 #
Jan 6, 2023 19:38:33 #
User ID wrote:
Hogsters stringently shun anything thaz even verrrry slightly tinged with math. I thought you knew that.
Of course it's not just on the Hog. Somewhere along the line, the perfectly good words horizontal and vertical got replaced by landscape and portrait, which are much less accurate, since there are vertical landscapes and horizontal portraits. I think it started with computer printing options.
Jan 6, 2023 21:09:12 #
OldSchool-WI
Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
fourlocks wrote:
My winter screen saver is generally a photo reminding me of a nice, warm summer day. I took this photo last June and it's presently my iMac's screen saver. However, my synced iPad decided to display the photo in portrait mode effectively cropping the landscape format into a portrait format.
Which format do you think provides the better picture? Why? Would you crop either, further? I'm interested because several friends had differing opinions.
Which format do you think provides the better picture? Why? Would you crop either, further? I'm interested because several friends had differing opinions.
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Neither is ideal as to composition. The eye is dragged to the upper left field with the landscape and should be kept more in the rocks and the road continuum. And the portrait clips off too much of the rocks, leaving little more than the road. Possibly a shorter FL lens might have pulled the road and rocks more together as the central ribbon?---------------ew
Jan 6, 2023 21:14:08 #
joecichjr wrote:
It works beautifully - and I would never have thou... (show quote)
I love the shot 
Ask 10 people you'll get at least 11 different answers.....
I like it also.
Jan 6, 2023 21:45:12 #
OldSchool-WI
Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
Longshadow wrote:
Ask 10 people you'll get at least 11 different answers.....
I like it also.
Ask 10 people you'll get at least 11 different answers.....
I like it also.
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Then why should there ever be threads on art and composition? You guys who criticize---"criticism" when the thread leader asks opinions---could for once simply shut your mouths.-------------------
Jan 6, 2023 23:00:12 #
OldSchool-WI wrote:
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Then why should there ever be threads on art and composition? You guys who criticize---"criticism" when the thread leader asks opinions---could for once simply shut your mouths.-------------------
Then why should there ever be threads on art and composition? You guys who criticize---"criticism" when the thread leader asks opinions---could for once simply shut your mouths.-------------------
Jan 6, 2023 23:18:31 #
Longshadow wrote:
For you maybe, but it might be very meaningful to the photographer....
Like pictures I have of the old family farm in Ontario.
Like pictures I have of the old family farm in Ontario.
Let me be more precise…
The image needed to be shot from a different level (height). This is just a guy pointing a camera at a scene he thinks attractive, raises the camera to his eye and shoots. The result is simply flat with little interest.
As to cropping in order to find a picture within a picture? Not in your life, composition – at time of 'shooting' – needs to be adjusted to the format and orientation.
Jan 6, 2023 23:40:25 #
Jan 7, 2023 00:22:28 #
OldSchool-WI
Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
Rongnongno wrote:
Let me be more precise…
The image needed to be shot from a different level (height). This is just a guy pointing a camera at a scene he thinks attractive, raises the camera to his eye and shoots. The result is simply flat with little interest.
As to cropping in order to find a picture within a picture? Not in your life, composition – at time of 'shooting' – needs to be adjusted to the format and orientation.
The image needed to be shot from a different level (height). This is just a guy pointing a camera at a scene he thinks attractive, raises the camera to his eye and shoots. The result is simply flat with little interest.
As to cropping in order to find a picture within a picture? Not in your life, composition – at time of 'shooting' – needs to be adjusted to the format and orientation.
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But this thread gave the picture---already taken and the question was simply---whether landscape or portrait aspect serves what he has. I was a bit off the topic by suggesting a shorter focal length lens since the shot was over. But cropping plus the aspect is still fair game in staying on topic.----------ew
Jan 7, 2023 00:56:14 #
OldSchool-WI wrote:
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But this thread gave the picture---already taken and the question was simply---whether landscape or portrait aspect serves what he has. I was a bit off the topic by suggesting a shorter focal length lens since the shot was over. But cropping plus the aspect is still fair game in staying on topic.----------ew
But this thread gave the picture---already taken and the question was simply---whether landscape or portrait aspect serves what he has. I was a bit off the topic by suggesting a shorter focal length lens since the shot was over. But cropping plus the aspect is still fair game in staying on topic.----------ew
When a capture is so-so, trying to decide what is the best crop is absurd. One does a better service to tell the truth, and give a possible alternative to be used the next time.
We learn through our mistakes by finding a better way, for the next time.
Then there is the focusing issue. It set to the immediate foreground, leaving the rest slightly blurred.
Add the third issue that is the shutter speed. It was windy that way, the overturned leaves are a sure indicator of it. Using a higher speed would have corrected some motion blur.
So, considering this, Can you answer honestly that one (landscape) is better than the other (crop, portrait)?
Personally, I say 'Neither, do not waste your time.
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