How Many of Your 35mm Photos are Vertical?

[DougFord]

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)

 

[Lilserenity]

Some. Not often, but just sometimes I think it works, just an instinct about what I want. Generally speaking though if I find myself turning the camera to shoot vertical to fit something in then I stop as I know it's not going to work, it's more about the whole frame working in vertical format for me.

Here's 2 I am happy with:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilserenity/4929889981/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilserenity/4922862172/

Vicky

 

[squinza]

10% vertical, maybe less. Especially with RFs

 

[wgerrard]

I dunno know about the rest of you, but I make a sincere effort to remain vertical while making most of my shots.

 

[Lilserenity]

I dunno know about the rest of you, but I make a sincere effort to remain vertical while making most of my shots.

I bet the odd drink might see to that though 😀

Vicky

 

[NickTrop]

I bet the odd drink might see to that though 😀

Vicky

Laughing out loud (because I got the "too short" warning when I posted "LOL")

 

[remegius]

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

 

[NickTrop]

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

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.

 

[c.poulton]

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....

 

[JonasYip]

Probably 98% vertical for me. My compositional sense just works that way.

J

 

[akremer]

I always hated vertical, but over the past few months it's grown on me to the point of being my standard practice.

It's refreshing.

 

[back alley]

hardly none

quite a not many

 

[paulfish4570]

About 50/50 ...

 

[arunrajmohan]

Less than 25%. I just estimated it at 17.8% out of the last 101 shots using either olympus XA or Leica M6.

-Arun

 

[Pablito]

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.

 

[BillBingham2]

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 (;->

 

[semilog]

Not much... But almost 95% of the time when I'm using a Pen FT... Don't know why 😀

^--- 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.

 

[coelacanth]

Very interesting poll result so far. I really thought there'd be more vertical shooters.

 

[Chris101]

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.

 

[NickTrop]

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.

Wow - you got all quantitative! Indeterminate? Those I'd love to see 🙂