Composition: Find the Best Orientation
This is Part 12 of my series on Composition
Find the best orientation to design your artwork.
When you use a printer or take a photograph, you decide between portrait and landscape. When framing your artwork, portraits usually hang vertically and landscapes usually hang horizontally. But there is more to the decision than that.
Portrait
Portraits are most often taken with the camera held vertically, or there are a good many vertical elements in the shot that are best captured to see the height, vertically.
This photograph just wouldn't be right if it was horizontal, correct?
Landscape
Holding the camera for that landscape image is typically with the camera being held horizontally. There are usually a lot of horizontal elements in your subject like mountains.
I don't think this photograph would have the same feeling to it at all if it was vertical. The emotion of it would be lost. What do you think?
Panorama
Panorama can be horizontal or vertical, just find what will work best, or more interesting for your subject.
Aspect Ratio
Aspect Ratio is defined as, "An aspect ratio is the dimensions of an image expressed in a ratio form. You determine the aspect ratio by comparing an image’s width and height, then writing it as a width:height ratio (such as 3:2 or 4:5)." - Digital Photography School
In even simpler terms, the aspect ratio is the size of the image taken by the camera.
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An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at https://DonnaLiguriaArt.com & her Blog at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/.
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