Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Bvy, jminso, are saying the same thing from a different direction, as tanguera. At the most obvious level, the REASON square and horizontal win more is because many, many more of them are entered.
The interesting question is, does the imbalance exist because people PREFER horizontal and square to vertical, or because at 800 pixels vertical is pushing or exceeding the limits on some screens and people are aware of this? Someone should go back and check whether the same ratios held true in the 640-pixel days, but I'm too lazy.
I believe we're seeing a lower percentage of square crops now that we are at 800 pixels; in the 640 days, you really NEEDED that extra real estate, now not so much. For me, in general, horizontal images just look better, seem larger on the page, than same-size vertical images do.
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I don't think the reason that we see more horizontals than verticals has as much to do with monitor orientation as with viewfinder orientation. I think that since most cameras give you the horizontal view to begin with that most images are shot that way and most therefore, end up that way after processing. |
