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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 11 months 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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[–] Graflex01867@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Adding a white border around the images gives it some visual separation from the things around it. Theres no background colors or anything else visually adjacent to the image that can effect your perception of it (colors/tones/etc.)

[–] Drama79@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

In addition, a white frame left and right allows a portrait image to be shown in full aspect ratio. Instagram displays portraits at 1080 x 1350 pixels, 4:5 aspect ratio. Which is fine on a crop sensor camera, but full frame images are 2:3, 4x6 etc.

So for full frame images, a white frame allows you to display the full image. Or at least, that’s partly why I do it. The separation is a thing too.

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