For this project, I went to the nearby town of Chiclana de la Frontera on a warm morning with hazy sunshine. There was quite a lot of variety in the 40+ photographs that I took and it was clear that, although some subjects were better shown in either a vertical or a horizontal frame, in many cases it did not matter. That is not to say that it made no difference but that a horizontal or vertical composition affected the content of the final photo.
It is not my intention of displaying all the photos taken but I have chosen three pairs to illustrate my conclusions. Although normally I would have cropped some, if not all, of these photos, I deliberately refrained from doing this for this project.
The first pair of photos were taken at the colourful weekly 'gitanos'market and I wanted to capture a sense of the hustle and bustle there and indicate the type of merchandise sold (mostly of the 'pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap' variety). It is clear to me that the photo in the horizontal format provides a better illustration of the market than that in the vertical format which doesn't include a lot of the peripheral detail.
The second pair shows a man walking down a narrow street and I wanted to emphasise its narrowness.
While the horizontal photo gives some extra detail about the nature of the buildings that make up the street, it is the vertical shot which emphasises its narrowness and achieves what I was seeking.
Finally, I took a couple of shots of an interesting doorway which one would expect to be presented better in the vertical format. However, perhaps because of the presence of the tree on
the right hand side, it is the horizontal photo that is more pleasing to the eye. However, moving closer to the door and using the vertical format would score over the horizontal frame.
As a result of this project, I intend to look for opportunities to use a vertical frame where this will provide a more satisfying composition that the more 'default' horizontal frame.
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