the youth don't seem to realize that you can turn your phone to landscape when taking a photo.
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@hypolite I feel like vertical analogue pictures were more common than horizontal phone pictures are now. But I also think it very likely that I feel wrong about that. @palomakop
@steeph @palomakop Let’s see, at a glance:
- Portrait paintings were more likely vertical.
- Daguerreotypes were more likely vertical.
- Roll film pictures were more likely horizontal.
- Digital camera pictures were more likely horizontal.
- Smartphone pictures are more likely vertical.
All this because of the form factor of the devices themselves.
@hypolite @steeph i think the more "training" you have as a photographer, the more you adjust the aspect to the subject matter for composition. perhaps people shooting on real cameras (esp film) were more likely to be trained/experienced, compared to people shooting on smartphones which is a broader selection of people.
this is perhaps a more generous interpretation than my original post. but i remain very annoyed by phones and their vertical conventions. lots of things just look bad that way.
@hypolite i guess also, people who spend lots of time on smartphone apps like instagram or tik tok are often subconsciously optimizing all the images they create for those platforms. and those apps don't let you rotate your phone presumably because it would be disruptive to the infinite scroll factor.
then again, when i was studying darkroom photography with SLRs built with horizontal format as the default, i remember people forgetting that you can turn them vertical also...
@palomakop Yeah, exactly, the form factor dictates the main orientation.
@palomakop If most the media you consume is in portrait orientation, I feel like it makes sense to also shoot everything in portrait orientation?
Analog cameras were awkward to shoot in portrait orientation, which made landscape pictures of people either truncated or tiny compared to the background.