Post your favorite horizontal orientation portraits

[snerd]

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!

 

[cat001]

A selection of some of my faves

 

[Vanessa_Borer]

Great idea! I'm guilty of shooting in a horizontal orientation a lot!

Here are a few of my favorites:

 

[Elie]

Very nice pictures on this thread! Here a mines:

A beautiful smile from an unknown girl in a café in Paris.

Awarded war photographer Eric Bouvet.

Marie and her Leica M2.

Portrait of a young boy in Vanuatu.

Björn 'Speed' Strid from Swedish band Soilwork.

My friend Bob.

Magnum Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol.

My friend Jordan.

My friend Karan.

Portrait of a young girl in the streets of Paris.

Cheers,
Elie

 

[paigew]

paigewilks.com.jpg by paige_w, on Flickr

 

[AlanKlein]

Everyone posted some really nice shots. Here are three of mine.

 

[Rick50]

 

[keyseddie]

Eva, my fave fishmonger in France.

 

[limr]

I don't take many portraits at all. Here's one of the very very few I have:

And I'm not sure if this one counts as a portrait, but in my mind, it always goes together with the one above.

 

[xzyragon]

here's a couple

IMG_5280 by christophercoxphoto, on Flickr

[IMG_1708 by christophercoxphoto, on Flickr

IMG_4318 by christophercoxphoto, on Flickr

 

[mcap1972]

I like this one.

 

[Garasaki]

Yay! Horizontal portraits complete with chopped off heads!

Candid

 

[LCLimages]

I'm sure I have more than this. I tend to shoot portraits both ways, although I can tell when a shot would've looked better the other way, and shoot more talls than horizontals these days.

 

[feg94]

 

[sashbar]

It is interesting to see how different most of these "Horizontal Portraits" are from the NORM of Horizontal Portraits that we see! Many of these are nicely lit, have great subjects with good attire, makeup, expressions... and obviously have a lot of thought put into them. Whereas the "Average" Horizontal portrait lacks all or most of these things. Most are more along the lines of snapshots... usually from the MWAC crowd (no insult intended).

Does anyone else see the difference I am referring to? Most of these are FAR from typical...

Horizontal portraits are storytelling. I have a street snapshot portrait as well: