How Many of Your 35mm Photos are Vertical?

[mastaliu]

now that I have a bronica rf645.....lots!

 

[tapesonthefloor]

My wife, however (when she takes photographs) is the opposite. She's much more into verticals.

Must... hold... tongue...

 

[gekopaca]

I try to avoid vertical shots, because almost all the current systems of diffusion and sharing are horizontal.
I guess I shoot less than 25% of my pictures in vertical, but after the editing it represents around 25 to 30% of my choice, because a lot of these are intersting pictures.

PS : I always use 3:2 ratio (my film legacy).

 

[segedi]

If I had to guess...
35mm Rangefinder: 5%
35mm DSLR: 30%
Bronica RF645: 95%

I find it less intuitive to focus with the 35mm rangefinder and even vertical shots are usually focused horizontally and then I flip the camera to vertical. The Bronica RF645 makes shooting verticals very easy : )

 

[JayM]

I recently asked myself this question again.

For almost the first year that I took photographs I always seemed to be doing vertical shots: it just seemed more natural. In the last few months I rarely make or select vertical shots. Partially because of the reason gekopaca mentioned, but also because they stopped looking right to me. Looking back over the past year or so I definitely love some of the verticals I shot, but many of them just feel awkward now. When creating a sequence of images these frustrate me because the content could fit in the series but I just had to turn the damn camera 🙁

I guess they must just be kept separate until I come up with a solution that I like...

 

[reagan]

1-2% . . . maybe. I prefer wide-angle over tall-angle. Guess its just the way I've trained my brain to compose. I rarely even check to see if vertical would be interesting.

 

[cantal]

Vertical at the beginning

Vertical at the beginning

Great format photography is mostly a vertical frame : look Atget, Adam Ansels, view cameras, etc.
So, horizontal or landscape frame has been made modern with the invention of the 35 mm camera.