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
Does your vertical to horizontal ratio change with:
1) subject distance?
2) lens length?

I put the following comment in Nick's thread along with some example images (thread is here: VERTICAL THREAD)

ederek said:
The stealth street shooting thread, discussing use of long lenses, had me thinking.. It was mid 2008 in Venice that I last used a long lens (>90mm) to shoot street. Took a look at images from one rainy morning, and all but a couple of the images uploaded to a gallery were vertical! Many were similarly composed (hopefully would be more diverse today).

I think with a long zoom, I have a natural a tendency to zoom to fill the subject, but not to crop them for the most part. When wider and closer, I tend to gravitate to a landscape format.
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When the subject matter calls for it, (and how I envisioned the shot).
on average 25% portrait mode.
And as mentioned by many, gear "comfort" plays some part in the equation.

Keep smiling.
 
About 50/50. This doesn't seem to be biased by camera (Leica viewfinder is landscape, Bronica portrait), but if I were to pick any trend it would be that my people shots tend to be more vertical. I don't shoot rapidly and rotating the camera to find the best orientation is all part of the process. I thought the Bronica would bias more shots to verticals; it's interesting that it doesn't.

Steve
 
almost zero the past two years

primarily due to how people look at photographs these days, on a computer screen
 
For me it depends on the camera .... with the Ricoh GR1s I almost instinctively shoot vertical . Never thought about why until I saw this thread . It's seems that this particular camera is very easy to shoot in this position when bringing the cameras view finder up to the eye and it also gives a not so wide angle option to a wide angle lens ...
 
It depends on how I want to frame my photos. But I always took the liberty of shooting vertical whenever I thought it'd be best. Never had an ideology for it. Although stastically, around 25% of my photos are composed vertically. More or less.
 
3:2 is a funny aspect ratio

3:2 is a funny aspect ratio

After shooting 4:3 for a while now, 3:2 just feels like a really funny aspect ratio. The long and the short edge are just so different. So, for example, with a 50mm lens on 35mm film, it's like the long side is normal while the short side is telephoto; or with a 35mm lens, the short side is normal while the long one is wide angle.

How does this translate to shooting 3:2 verticals? In my experience, just like with wide-angle photography, you typically need to "layer" the composition with strong and distinct foreground, background and maybe midground to make it work without cropping. Examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26665183@N00/5006982525/in/set-72157624323570435/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26665183@N00/5010128621/in/set-72157624323570435/
 
i think it depends. i find shooting landscape/seascape in vertical composition sometimes can add the impact and better object isolation. mines about 25-30% in vertical composition. have a good weekend, gentlemen : )
 
I shoot primarily in the horizontal, or have done as the subject matter I have been concentrating on has been that way. As the subject matter is primarily in the horizontal anything shot in the vertical looks out of place. If I had been shooting projects primarily based around the portrait then perhaps they would have been the other way round.
 
Recently, while looking through my copy of HCB's book "A propos de Paris", I was impressed by how many of the photographs were vertical...
 
I've noted this elsewhere, but almost none of my shots--in any rectangular format--are vertical. My wife, however (when she takes photographs) is the opposite. She's much more into verticals. I do have a Pen D2 that takes vertical images "natively" and it's kinda fun, forces you to see a new way.
 
Just looked the roll I just developed, 1 out 20 is vertical... (I roll my own short rolls ;)) So this roll 5%

I average maybe 10% to 30%. It just depends on my subject.

My next to last roll of 21x, I had 5 verticals. So, 22.5%
 
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