To V or to H? That's the question

[ferider]

More than half of my shots are vertical. Don't know why.

Thought it's a preference, and also correlated to who prefers 50 over 35 or vice versa.

Roland,

 

[uhligfd]

5 years ago for my first exhibition etc i shot and selected more good pics in vertical orientation while currently in my new exhibit there are way more horizontal ones.

Do I know why? I have no idea ... what made me change. Or whether I really did change.

I only became aware of this when I selected the ones to show this year.

So, maybe there are blue periods and there are red periods in everybody's work and art?

Now I should recall the focal lengths used as well, should I not. To have another parameter on the pictures selected and shown over the years ....

Life varies. That is my guess. (And the parameters are useless indicators of nothing, I am afraid.)

 

[WDPictures]

I've naturally preferred the vertical orientation regardless of the camera or film format, well except for 6x6-MF, you know you don't have to turn the camera.

Do publications still lean towards vertical or do they just crop up a chosen image to work for their layout?

 

[FrozenInTime]

V or H : I thought you were talking about Hasselblad ( old 500 now known by them as V series or the new H AF cameras ).
I think a 1:1 square crop would work best especially with the second.
Vertical plus crop is a good way of effecting a shift lens on 4:3 formats like 35mm.

I think mixing horizontals and verticals on a page looks messy : Leica's own gallery pages crop the thumbnails to square to give an esthetically pleasing consistent look.
http://us.leica-camera.com/photography/lfigallery/

 

[kitaanat]

For me, It depends on what I took and situation.
Sometime I took both because it gave me different feeling.