Daily details

[Björn Carlén]

Details of places I pass by on a daily basis. Shot with E-M10 and kit-zoom EZ, #3 shot with D600 + 85/1,8G hand held.

1. Behind bars
2. Brick wall
3. No title
4. Frames
5. Shadow play

This should perhaps have been posted under category Life etc. Sorry about that.

[elsa hoffmann]

I quite like the 3rd one - !

[Erik Lund]

Last one is an exact look alike for the Space Shuttle silhouette  Cool

Nice little series!

[Jacques Pochoy]

I would prefer #2... :-) Square on the detailing !!!

[Björn Carlén]

Thanks, all of you!
I notice my tendency to use portrait orientation for almost everything I shoot. Is there a cure for that? Or should I just keep going? May be a sign of narrow-mindedness :-)

[Erik Lund]

Thanks, all of you!
I notice my tendency to use portrait orientation for almost everything I shoot. Is there a cure for that? Or should I just keep going? May be a sign of narrow-mindedness :-)

Keep on going 

Only change if customers need horizontal format...

I often shoot both versions of almost all scenes if it's a paid job, just to be safe, so if the really need the image in another orientation I have it, not necessarily edited, but I have the raw file

[elsa hoffmann]

80% of my photos used to be portrait orientation.
for some reason it changed  - and now its the opposite -
Perhaps because I find a landscape orientation image more useable - on the web (eg my website)
I sometimes find portrait orientation images are cropped square in the thumbnail of the bigger version - and I dont like that at all.

just go with what you feel -

[John Geerts]

Perhaps because I find a landscape orientation image more useable - on the web (eg my website)

Yes, true. For web-based news-articles the priority is set to deliver landscape photo's (especially in a Wordpress-layout). 

But that has it's limitations too, not al the news-items can be covered in the way I would prefer.

[Jacques Pochoy]

80% of my photos used to be portrait orientation.
for some reason it changed  - and now its the opposite -
Perhaps because I find a landscape orientation image more useable - on the web (eg my website)
I sometimes find portrait orientation images are cropped square in the thumbnail of the bigger version - and I dont like that at all.

just go with what you feel -

Now that is a great question ! When using film and printing with an enlarger, often portraits, most of my negatives were in the vertical orientation as a page in a book or oil painting portraits. With the computer, then with DSLRs, the landscape format came back with a revenge :-)

I still have to force myself to shoot in the landscape format, finding it interesting as there seems to be too much space !!! I did spend some time with the square format (120, 220) That I found nearly perfect, still I don't crop square with my DSLRs ? Go figure... :-)

[Björn Carlén]

Keep on going 

Only change if customers need horizontal format...

I don't have any customers, Erik. A good thing in this case. Never sold a picture in my whole life. So far.

[Erik Lund]

You never know... 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Whether one shots in either orientation of the frame is immaterial, as long as the photographer understands that the picture has to be composed differently. Portrait- vs landscape mode is about more than just rotating the camera.

For stock agencies, portrait mode or photographs that can be cropped suchlike, frequently is assumed to sell better due to the use in printed media. Perhaps the upsurge of digital publication to the net is an equaliser and makes landscape mode more attractive these days? I have looked though my "sold" portfolio and really cannot say what is the currently prevailing mode.

[knb]

Most of mine are in landscape mode I'm sure. But a year ago, I used portrait mode every day for a month (just because the first few happened to be in portrait I think). It soon became a habit, and seemed to become a normality. So I think (at least for me), habits control what you do just as much as the scenery in front of you.

Your third image is a favourite by the way. The minimalism appeals to me, as well as the strong use of the available light.

[Björn Carlén]

Your third image is a favourite by the way. The minimalism appeals to me, as well as the strong use of the available light.

Thank you, Kjetil!