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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Why white borders around photos? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Cerenity1000@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I've seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?

If that is so why don't they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops

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[–] lycosa13@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate 1:1 and Instagram doesn't support 3:4 in portrait mode, only 8:10 and I rarely shoot in 8:10. I'm not going to change the composition of my images to fit some standard Instagram decided on and have refused to fix. So borders on everything

[–] ClikeX@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair. Instagram doesn’t think it’s broken so there’s nothing to fix.

Instagram is the worst platform to share photos nowadays, yet it’s also the only platform if you want to reach the public. I hate it.

[–] lycosa13@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sure but most devices shoot in 2:3 so it's kind of ridiculous that you can't use the most common ratio on the most popular "photography" site