Landscape or portrait
The shape of things
For other examples:
Cristina Garcia Rodero p. 15
Elaine Constantine p. 81
Youngjun Koo p. 96
Dorothea Lange p. 115
It’s not just the lines in your image that dictate how our eyes move across it. The shape (or format) is just as important.
Horizontal pictures (or landscape format) encourage our eyes to move from side to side. Vertical pictures (or portrait format) make them move up and down.
Choosing the format has nothing to do with whether you’re shooting landscapes or portraits. Instead, try to match the format of your picture to the dominant lines – or natural flow – of your subject. This means the shape of your picture and the subject matter will work together to guide the eye in one clear direction. ...
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