Landscape or portrait?

[markyboy81]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

 

[Gerry Winterbourne]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

When I say 'you' I actually mean 'one' but that's quite posh. Please don't be offended I'm not telling you how to hold your phone. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to hold it in portrait mode if you want to hold it with one hand. If 'one' is happy using both hands then fine.

I know what you're saying; what I'm saying is that in my case what you say isn't true. So swapping "you" for "one" makes no difference. What you are describing is your personal experience so the only appropriate word is "I".

 

[contadorfan]

My natural instinct is to shoot vertically. For some reason, that's how I "see" & compose best. Wish it weren't so, because horizontal shots have much more impact when viewed on a monitor or TV.

 

[markyboy81]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

When I say 'you' I actually mean 'one' but that's quite posh. Please don't be offended I'm not telling you how to hold your phone. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to hold it in portrait mode if you want to hold it with one hand. If 'one' is happy using both hands then fine.

I know what you're saying; what I'm saying is that in my case what you say isn't true. So swapping "you" for "one" makes no difference. What you are describing is your personal experience so the only appropriate word is "I".

Ok that's fine. In that case please amend your other post 'I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up' to reflect that this is your experience and not just that it's 'just as easy'

 

[Bobo Hodls]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera. It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

Taking cell phones out of the equation - everything in landscape mode? What a boring world that would be. Rigid thinking of that nature limits creativity IMO.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Nobody asked.

--
...Bob, NYC
.
"Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't." - Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtullis/
http://www.bobtullis.com
.

 

[Bobo Hodls]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

When I say 'you' I actually mean 'one' but that's quite posh. Please don't be offended I'm not telling you how to hold your phone. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to hold it in portrait mode if you want to hold it with one hand. If 'one' is happy using both hands then fine.

[eye roll] I thought most photographers were a creative and resourceful lot. . .

Grip the phone from behind with one hand, with back of hand and lens facing the subject, using other hand for settings and execution.

--
...Bob, NYC
.
"Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't." - Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtullis/
http://www.bobtullis.com
.

 

[markyboy81]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

When I say 'you' I actually mean 'one' but that's quite posh. Please don't be offended I'm not telling you how to hold your phone. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to hold it in portrait mode if you want to hold it with one hand. If 'one' is happy using both hands then fine.

[eye roll] I thought most photographers were a creative and resourceful lot. . .

Grip the phone from behind with one hand, with back of hand and lens facing the subject, using other hand for settings and execution.

 

[markyboy81]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera. It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

Taking cell phones out of the equation - everything in landscape mode? What a boring world that would be. Rigid thinking of that nature limits creativity IMO.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Nobody asked.

--
...Bob, NYC
.
"Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't." - Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtullis/
http://www.bobtullis.com
.

No, not everything, just most things. I only tend to go to portrait when what I'm shooting doesn't fit in the frame.

I prefer landscape as most of the devices I use to view images are or can be more easily set to be landscape. But as I mentioned earlier most people in my family and friends only really use phones so tend to view stuff vertically.

 

[Bobo Hodls]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera.

I find vertical orientation more comfortable using a DSLR with a good hand grip. Much easier to let the camera hang from my right wrist ...

It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I don't get that. Holding a phone between finger tips is just as easy any way up.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Taking photos with a phone one handed in portrait mode (as most people tend to do) is easier than in landscape mode where realistically you have to hold the phone in two hands to balance the phone effectively and get a steady shot

Don't say "you" when you mean "I". I don't need you to tell me how I hold a phone.

When I say 'you' I actually mean 'one' but that's quite posh. Please don't be offended I'm not telling you how to hold your phone. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to hold it in portrait mode if you want to hold it with one hand. If 'one' is happy using both hands then fine.

[eye roll] I thought most photographers were a creative and resourceful lot. . .

Grip the phone from behind with one hand, with back of hand and lens facing the subject, using other hand for settings and execution.

Lol using other hand. The whole point of this was to argue it's not as easy to hold the phone in landscape mode and take photos one handed.

One handed? Sure, it can be done one handed in either orientation, I'll do that for documentary photos (which is the only reason I think of the cell phone having a camera), but two hands are better.

Another poster seemed to suggest it was and I'd be interested to see how this actually works, as a phone is designed to be held vertically.

The phone in question might come into play, some being easier than others to grip one-handed (as do the size of the hands in question).

 

[Bobo Hodls]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera. It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

Taking cell phones out of the equation - everything in landscape mode? What a boring world that would be. Rigid thinking of that nature limits creativity IMO.

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

Nobody asked.

No, not everything, just most things. I only tend to go to portrait when what I'm shooting doesn't fit in the frame.

I prefer landscape as most of the devices I use to view images are or can be more easily set to be landscape. But as I mentioned earlier most people in my family and friends only really use phones so tend to view stuff vertically.

I suppose I'm old school, with prints being the ultimate reason for photography (though I don't print as much as I used to). The subject determines the orientation. . . often I'll take both orientations, and decide later which is stronger. The photograph, not one specific medium, is what drives that decision. Different strokes.



--
...Bob, NYC
.
"Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't." - Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
.

Bobo Hodls

Explore Bobo Hodls’s 5,812 photos on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

http://www.bobtullis.com

.

 

[Alex Ridgway]

I shoot landscape a lot more these days, as it views better on my laptop screen.

I exclusively use my laptop on its side so it's portrait as that's how I hold my phone

 

[Alex Ridgway]

By default I will always shoot in landscape mode and rarely turn the camera around to shoot the other way. It's also more comfortable this way with a regular camera. It seems nowadays people who use their phones for photography favour shooting portrait as that's the way they are holding their phone when they want to take a photo, and in addition to this with phones it's not that comfortable talking photos in landscape mode.

I think this is really limited to those that shoot with compacts / ML / liveview if you're using a view finder than unless you have a grip shooting portrait is far less comfortable than landscape.

Really it depends on the subject you're shooting

I took some quite good photos of the kids the other day and transferred them to my phone. I gave the phone to my other half to browse through them and she couldn't even be bothered to turn the phone to view the photos in landscape mode, so there were huge black borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Don't even get me started on portrait video shooting..

you know you can turn the phone before handing it to someone?

 

[markyboy81]

you know you can turn the phone before handing it to someone?

Good point! Although usually they press the screen or home button and end up looking at something else!

 

[nopix]

For me it does.

 

[9VIII]

I really wish all these new Mirrorless systems would have used 35x35mm sensors. You’d think we should be able to move past the idea of physically flipping your camera around all the time.

Really? At the cost of making the camera bigger (taller for both the extra size of the sensor and of the viewfinder), heavier and more expensive; and needing a whole new suite of bigger, heavier and more expensive lenses?

Note that current lenses are designed to cover a 43mm diameter image circle while your format will need a 50mm diameter image circle. That's 35% more area to cover.

Many current MF cameras have sensors of 44 x 33mm with image circle of 55m. So your suggestion puts size (and everything that follows from that) more than half way between FF and MF.

Perfect.

Indeed the Canon EF mount could nearly fit a Medium Format sensor and it’s surprising that they haven’t leveraged that ability yet.

Otherwise I want to see someone make an integrated vertical grip camera body that weighs less than 500 grams.

In fact, the extra weight of the body plus lens could well add another 500g to what you carry.

Fuji GFX 50R weighs 690 grams (body only) where the X-T3 is 489 grams. Moving from APS-C to Medium Format inflates the weight by 201 grams, quite frankly there would be hardly any difference in weight moving from 35mm at 3:2 to 35mm at 1:1.

Of course lenses can weigh anything you want, the Canon 40mm Pancake is already fully compatible with Fuji GFX: https://jonasraskphotography.com/2017/10/05/dont-fking-die/

 

[richiebee]

It really depends on end use. I would say more than 99% of my images are shot in landscape orientation, regardless of subject.

 

[MichaelFrederickPhoto]

I am intentionally shooting for a 4:5 ratio so the scene will call for the position. My new to me D810 has the 5:4 mode which I started using last weekend and I liked I already knew what I was getting without cropping later on.

 

[richiebee]

For me it does.

For me it depends on the output.

 

[StarPortraits]

I am a portrait shooter and I can tell the general consensus is to shoot portrait as the name implies. One percent I shoot landscape for artistic purpose. Its the way it is.

 

[richiebee]

I am a portrait shooter and I can tell the general consensus is to shoot portrait as the name implies. One percent I shoot landscape for artistic purpose. Its the way it is.

Most of my work is portraiture too... environmental portraiture. Vertically oriented images hardly ever get used in the publication I shoot for. In fact, if you came back with a story’s worth of vertically oriented images, you’d be going back for a re-shoot. Trying to make a portrait work for a 5:2 or even 2:1 ratio space is tricky. That’s why output is an important consideration for me.