How Many of Your 35mm Photos are Vertical?

How Many of Your 35mm Shots are Vertical?

  • 1-25%

    Votes: 141 52.6%

  • 26-50%

    Votes: 79 29.5%

  • 51-75%

    Votes: 37 13.8%

  • 76-100%

    Votes: 11 4.1%
  • Total voters
    268
I shoot in an orientation that I feel works best for a given situation.
It ends up around ~ 70% h, 30% v.
(3:2 exclusively)
 
Interesting thread. And interesting that you shoot from the hip with your small digicam. I started doing that with a SD780 before I gave it to my wife, and find myself doing it a lot with the S90. The results of shooting that way always surprise me. The low perspective, coupled with the vertical orientation and shoot-from-the-hip framing, have resulted in some interesting looking shots.

Cheers...

Rem
 
remegius said:
Interesting thread. And interesting that you shoot from the hip with your small digicam. I started doing that with a SD780 before I gave it to my wife, and find myself doing it a lot with the S90. The results of shooting that way always surprise me. The low perspective, coupled with the vertical orientation and shoot-from-the-hip framing, have resulted in some interesting looking shots.

Cheers...

Rem
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Absolutely! It's been a bit of a revelation. I hold the little F20 in my palm, camera on, lens extended, but essentially using it as a 35/2.8 fixed lens camera, and shoot on continuous mode, auto everything (shreik! sacrilige!) with the camera vertically oriented. Getting some really neat shots and getting better at framing. - there's definitely a skill to this.
 
This is very interesting. I have been wondering for quite a while now why most of my keepers tend to be vertical - it just 'seems' to work for me....
 
It depends. For book projects or general documentary or journalistic work, about 50% but for for multimedia, which is going to be viewed on a horizontal computer screen, then 100% horizontal. It works better.
 
My % goes down if my wife sees me. In her book there are no vertical shot, just miss cropped horizontals. My father claimed he never saw square though some times I do.

I'm much higher than the curve on this one. Good question dude.

B2 (;->
 
JohnnyT said:
Not much... But almost 95% of the time when I'm using a Pen FT... Don't know why 😀
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^--- Yup.

I shoot quite a few more verticals with my 4/3 camera vs. 35mm. I'm pretty sure that this is because I seldom like the 3:2 aspect ratio in vertical format, and I also don't much like cropping when it can be avoided.
 
I just went through 410 prints. 49% were portrait format (vertical), 50% landscape format (horizontal) and one percent was indeterminate. I find it more difficult to compose for the vertical - so I am surprised they are about equal in number. It would be instructional to also go through the negatives and see if my shooting style matches those pictures I have printed.

But a lot of work.
 
Chris101 said:
I just went through 410 prints. 49% were portrait format (vertical), 50% landscape format (horizontal) and one percent was indeterminate. I find it more difficult to compose for the vertical - so I am surprised they are about equal in number. It would be instructional to also go through the negatives and see if my shooting style matches those pictures I have printed.

But a lot of work.
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Wow - you got all quantitative! Indeterminate? Those I'd love to see 🙂
 
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