Evolution by Timothy Poulton

Evolution by Timothy Poulton

Is social media killing off the portrait?
Back in the early 2000’s, everyone was posting stunning landscapes in portrait mode. Then all the photo sharing sites adopted the scaling gallery format, and over time, wide landscapes have become the norm, in fact, I hardly see anyone flip the camera 90 degrees. All you have to do is look at the majority of images uploaded to 500px to see that a stunning portrait is a postage stamp and completely lost compared to everything around it.
To find out further if this is the case I asked a bunch of printers and framers and all of them say the same thing, hardly anyone orders portrait style prints or frames.
Although it’s not a conscience decision when processing and I’ve always been a sucker for the super wide pano, I’ll rarely post verticals anymore.
Love your thoughts on this, have we seen the end of portraits, are we being rewired in the way we shoot.

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