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06/09/2005 04:55:09 PM · #1
Had a few minute to spare and was wondering if the photograph̢۪s aspect ratio and whether it is landscape or portrait has a noticeable influence on winning entries. Now I̢۪m just taking in account the size and whether it's landscape or portrait, not the quality of picture. I went back to the last 15 challenges and only looking at the ribbon winners and found the following:

Ribbon winners
Aspect ratio of 1:1 = 22.2%
Aspect ratio of 1.50:1 = 42.2%
Aspect ratio of 1:25:1 = 35.5%

If you break down Aspect ratios of 1.50 and 1.25: 1 in landscape or portrait it is:
Landscape 1.50:1 = 33.3%
Landscape 1.25:1 = 22.2%
Portrait 1.50:1 = 8.9%
Portrait 1.25:1 = 13.3%

Do you notice that a portrait picture has a very low percentage of wins than Landscape and Square crop? Do you feel that a lot of voters may not be scrolling down to see the whole picture?

What do you think?

Message edited by author 2005-06-09 16:55:54.
06/09/2005 04:58:13 PM · #2
I'm sure that the scrolling issue is real. Unless the photo grabs me I have been guilty of not always scrollong down. But I think landscape is more appealing to most eyes. I know I tend to lean torwards it as it fits more shots.
06/09/2005 04:58:19 PM · #3
If you get more bored, do the 15 before that separately. Then do the total of the 30. That would be even better. I'd like to see if this changes over time...but I'm not that bored. lol
06/09/2005 05:06:57 PM · #4
Because our eyes are horizontally placed, I would assume that subconsiously a landscape is more natural to look at.

Well almost.. scroll this landscape
shot for a real treat on the eyeballs:


:)
06/09/2005 05:09:41 PM · #5
To me it depends on the image. An image with strong vertical lines works better in portrait mode.
06/09/2005 05:09:42 PM · #6
Originally posted by BradP:

Because our eyes are horizontally placed, I would assume that subconsiously a landscape is more natural to look at.

Well almost.. scroll this landscape
shot for a real treat on the eyeballs:


:)


That one needs a WARNING: May cause seizures while viewing for long period of time. :)
06/10/2005 09:02:14 AM · #7
If key F11 is pressed before voting, there will be much less scrolling involved.
06/10/2005 09:18:20 AM · #8
This is very interesting. Is is because of scrooling or is it because of the natural image position on our brain?

Estatistics can show us very important things. It would be very interesting to see a deeeper and bigger analisis
06/10/2005 09:25:32 AM · #9
In order to know if there is any validity to the differences in the proportion of ribbon winners that appear in particular aspect ratios or orientations, it's first necessary to know how many shots were submitted in each mode. You'd have to know this (or at least have a good estimate) for the entire sample group, otherwise if there are, for instance, twice as many landscape shots submitted as portrait, then naturally you'd expect that landscapes shots have a better chance of appearing in the highest rated category.
06/10/2005 09:31:40 AM · #10
I think that you have a lot of free time.
06/10/2005 09:56:45 AM · #11
Another way of looking at it. If you go to Photos > Browse > Highest Rated and look to see what landscape and portrait percentages are.
I went to the top 125 photographs
Landscape: 81 of 125 = 64.80%
Portrait: 39 of 125 = 31.20%
Square: 5 of 125 = 4.00%

Now I now to be fair and get a real good read I need to go to the lowest rated area and to the bottom 125. I will do that in a few and see what it is.


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