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....
 
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.
 
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 :D
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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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