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phinix wrote:
Vertical vs horizontal photos - which variant do you guys pick the most? Which view works better for you in general?
I know it depends on subject, but in general.
I came back from a trip and noticed that I took a lot of vertical photos, more than horizontal ones. Looks like I prefer vertical photos for architecture, travel, street. Lens I used was Voigtlander 21/3.5. I have a habit of taking same photo twice - vertically and horizontally, just to have option later to pick better and noticed that most of the time I lean towards vertical, even if horizontal was great.
I'm talking in general/travel/family/street photography - do you have your preferred view?...Show more →
Like you say, it depends. My travel photography has traditionally consisted of street portraits (headshots) and landscapes. The headshots are mostly vertical, and the landscapes mostly horizontal. Hence the designations portrait and landscape orientation, I guess. 
My first street photographs (1990s) where vertical. I used a short telephoto lens to shoot people from a distance, and vertical orientation just worked best. Nowadays, the great majority of my street photographs are horizontal because of the way I shoot (from the belly, and with a shorter focal length). Rotating the camera is inconvenient and attracts more attention. Also, I usually keep the same lens mounted for the day. Together with the fixed landscape orientation, this makes that I know what to look for. If I am walking around thinking about with lens to use, and in which orientation, I am less effective. There is so much happening on the streets, that restricting yourself does not result in fewer keepers. On the contrary. That said, on some occasions I just hold the camera to the eye. In that case portrait orientation is as likely as landscape orientation.
In my experience, something that is more likely to happen with horizontal than vertical shots is that the subjects (people, in my case) don't always fill the entire frame. When the remaining part has nothing of interest, or only distractions, I may crop to a square format. .
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