Portrait, landscape, and why it matters later
Which way to turn the phone before you press the shutter, so the picture looks right wherever it ends up.
A phone sits comfortably in the hand one way up, so that is the way nearly every photograph gets taken. It is worth pausing for the half-second it takes to ask whether that is the right shape for this particular picture.
Key points
- Choose tall for a person and wide for a view, before you press anything
- Take it wide if it is going on a television, in a frame, or in print
- Put a sideways photograph right with Crop and Rotate
- Undo any edit, at any time, with Revert to Original
What to remember
- Decide the shape first. Turning the phone is far quicker than mending the picture afterwards.
- Whenever a photograph is going to be shown to a room, taken to a printer, or used as a background, take it wide.
- Crop and Rotate is where a sideways photograph gets put right. It is never a lost cause.
Try this
Look at the last ten photographs on your phone. Count how many are tall. Then take one picture of the room you are in, wide, and see how much more of it fits.
Practice: Portrait, landscape, and why it matters later. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.