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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 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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[–] cmoriarty13@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This comes from the printing days when photographers would frame their work with a matte. It's a white border between the frame and the art that leads the eye and enhances the visual experience through the isolation of the art.

Personally, I think it looks stupid on social media. The idea of a matte online is pointless and doesn't have the same effect as when it's framed with a matte. I feel like people just do it for feed aesthetics. I used to do it back in the day when you could only post square images to IG, but now that you can post in any aspect ratio, I see no point.