Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Going Vertical #2

at http://natureandwildlifephotography.blogspot.com/2010/04/going-vertical-2.html

Blackwater

I've decided my project is going to be to shoot and post vertical shots for a good while.

Flickr really like horizontal images, or square images. Vertical images are not as popular, although I did recently come across someone's flickr stream that was almost completely vertically composed images.

Flickr's Explorer is almost always non-vertical shots, the non-vertical shots just work better for computer screens and the site's layout.

At a recent photoclub meeting the presenter had many panoramic shots taken with a panoramic camera. Most times you'd think of a pano you'd think horizontal, right? Well this person also had some vertical panos, like 1 foot wide by 6 feet tall. It's such an odd thing that it struck me. He's a pro and said that they sell well the tall narrow shots because they can fit in to place where wall space is very limited. And wow, yeah, that makes such great sense.

I'm going to try a few vertical panos if the subject looks right for it.

Here's another vertical shot, that I posted a while back, a rare thing...

My GBH

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Nikographer.com / Jon

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2 comments:

ToadMama said...

I like your vertical idea. I also love that last shot with the reflections. Very cool.

Misty DawnS said...

I love both of these shots. That second shot took my breath away - outstanding!

I had a magazine editor tell me to shoot horizontal... always having that magazine cover shot in mind.