Post your favorite horizontal orientation portraits

[LCLimages]

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...

I get it. The last one I posted breaks all the rules. It's horizontal WITH a tilt, gasp! But I like it. I think it works. It wasn't tilted SOOC, but it looked... flat. Bad pun, for lack of a better word. I shot it 3 years ago too. I've come a long way since then but I still haven't changed my mind on that shot.

 

[Civchic]

Here's my favourite:

june 21 036 lounging boy edited | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

(Sorry I can't direct post from work).

 

[jake337]

 

[lexloo]

 

[D-B-J]

HORIZONTICAL-NESS!

Zach and Erin by f_one_eight, on Flickr

 

[Rick50]

Jake,
I kind of like what you did with this. It would have been tempting to go vertical and crop out the wall.

 

[D-B-J]

Jake,
I kind of like what you did with this. It would have been tempting to go vertical and crop out the wall.

Yeah, I agree. It might have been stronger as a vertical, but I really wanted the "leading lines" of the wall [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[catamari]

I'm loving these portraits, especially the animal ones! Very impressive. I just developed some film and these are two of my favorite horizontal portraits that I've uploaded:

joe's deli by peachcake, on Flickr
mermaid candy queen by peachcake, on Flickr

 

[Derrel]

I shot a set of a lovely 35 year old lady who I photographed this summer. This was only her third-ever photoshoot! I was messing around with a new free software application called Pixlr-o-Matic, which is available for iOS and Android, as well as for Macintosh and Windows computing devices. I used the border options and some of the softening/diffusing effects on these two frames.

This is shot above, of Jen wearing headphones, uses Pixlr-o-Matic's soft border, with the Antonio diffusion effect layered on top. I left some space on the right for text overlay.

This shot uses the Pixlr-o-Matic's cornered border effect, with the Antonio diffusion effect layered on top. I adjusted the highlights/shadows later in PS CC.

 

[johns]

 

[Punkstrut]

Maja

 

[Braineack]

just did this:

DSC_5868-2-2 by The Braineack, on Flickr

 

[Mike S.]

Took this during a 9/11 memorial ruck march.

 

[W.Y.Photo]

 

[James Baranski]

happy sad by Jbaranski111, on Flickr