After you pick up your camera and before you push the shutter-button, you have two choices on the type of picture you can take:
- Landscape:
This gives you a 'wide' field-of-view. Here you hold the camera in its regular horizontal-position - great to include more of what you see, on both sides of your subject.
2. Portrait:
This gets you a 'tall' field-of-view. You turn the camera to a vertical-position - it allows you to exclude distracting details on either side of your subject. 'Portrait' and people go perfectly with each other!
In the photo above, I wanted to emphasize the 'tall' lines of the pillars. I was also looking to exclude details on the sides of the pillars. And so I went with 'Portrait' style for this snap.
The same place photographed in 'Landscape' format would give a completely different, vista-like character to the shot.
Landscape or Portrait, here's to you capturing wonderful moments, the next time you're out shooting!
Happy Photographing !!