Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Portrait or Landscape



I have a ongoing battle with myself each time I raise the camera to my eye:





LANDSCAPE OR PORTRAIT?????????



I seem to draw more towards Portrait for reasons I honestly do not understand. I guess it is the containment of space. Having to put everything into such a designated area. Making the image/subject isolated and more obvious.:



Landscape give versatility for cropping and for capturing as much of a vision as possible. But it seems to open for me. I feel that if I can not personally fill that space with something, then the picture is not worth taking. And yet, each time I deny my inner self the pleasure of Portrait, I am rewarded with something like this:



So which is it?!?!?!??!?!!