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

  • _prisoner24601__@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I do this primarily to maintain the original aspect ratio since Instagram stubbornly insists everything be square. That’s first. But secondarily I find it feel like my film days when I would matte photos after developing them. The end product feels more finished to me and overall more pleasing. It’s like that little drizzle of sauce on the plate at a fine restaurant. It may not have any real function (or here maybe it does) but it’s for the aesthetics.