12/01/2022
Perhaps it's just me, but I feel like the fact that Instagram (for many of us the main way we share our art) naturally lends itself more favourably to images in portrait orientation can make it easy to fall into the habit of instantly flipping the camera sideways and lining up vertical compositions the moment you get to a shoot. Hell, the consideration of posting my photos to Instagram has had such an effect on me personally that I've even found myself occasionally thinking "and how will this crop down to 4x5?" when leaning over my tripod hahaha. And that's somewhat of a shame, because there's a world of unique compositional opportunities that come with keeping that camera in landscape orientation, and there's no doubt plenty of potentially great shots I've missed due to my brain simply jumping straight to portrait. Of course, not every photographer's mind is so heavily influenced into developing such habits, and thanks to being constantly awestruck by the work of some of these photographers (such as and ) I've started making a conscious effort to slow down and consider the option of shooting in landscape. It may not suit the gram as well, but should we really care???
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