Study photography at home during the holidays. Should you choose horizontal or vertical composition when taking photos?

Study photography at home during vacation, but don’t have a specific learning direction? From learning bit by bit, you will surely improve your shooting skills day by day. Today I will introduce to you the role of horizontal composition and vertical composition to help you choose the viewing direction!

1. Horizontal composition—the first choice for large scenes

Horizontal composition is the most natural-looking and most commonly used form of composition.

Horizontal composition is suitable for shooting vast fields, grasslands, seas, moving objects, broad horizons, calm seas, interactions between people, etc.

2. Horizontal composition—storytelling

Horizontal composition not only broadens the field of view, but is also suitable for showing pictures with storylines.

Suitable for taking photos of people asking for recruitment. If you are photographing people or objects, you can take a more comprehensive picture of the surrounding environment, which can give a good explanation of the environment in which they are located.

3. Horizontal composition - sense of stability

Horizontal composition will give people a sense of stability and spaciousness.

Horizontal composition is suitable for shooting large scene scenery, including large scene street photography and humanistic themes.

4. Vertical composition—reflecting depth

The use of vertical composition is more about expressing the depth of the picture and the feeling of height.

Vertical composition will make the picture more concentrated and enhance the feeling of depth. For pictures with high and low "gaps", using a vertical composition is consistent with the normal expression of pictures with high and low gaps, whether we look from bottom to top or from top to bottom.

5. Vertical composition—tall and solemn

The proportions of the vertical composition are also suitable for showing the tallness and solemnity of things.

When we are shooting subjects with a strong sense of depth, a strong sense of three-dimensionality, and a tall subject, we can use vertical composition.

6. Vertical composition - the era of mobile phones

Vertical shooting is actually the most accustomed action for holding mobile phones. Mobile phones all have vertical screens, so I believe many people also have the habit of shooting in vertical compositions.

The proportion of vertical screen images is also gradually increasing. For example, software such as Douyin and Kuaishou also mainly use vertical screens.

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