I often do work for a friend who has their own brand. I’m not a huge stickler about a little cropping but there is something that they have being doing that irks me and I’m looking for an honest perspective.
I shoot both portrait and landscape orientation - whatever I think is best for the shot. On instagram if you’re posting multiple photos in a single post, it automatically makes the aspect ratio of all photos the same as whatever the first photo is. What would make sense to me is making two posts with the different orientations seperately if there’s photos you like from both. What they have been doing is shoving all the photos into one post - so if the first photo is vertical all the horizontal ones will be extremely cropped in, or if the first is horizontal all the vertical ones are cut in half. It basically makes the photos the opposite aspect ratio of which they were shot.
Not only is the quality is lowered when it’s cropped in more than it was meant to be, but it completely changes the composition and often times just makes what I thought were good photos look straight up bad. Its a drastic change. This happens every time we shoot together.
I haven’t said anything yet and I’m wondering what others think. Am I getting annoyed over nothing? Should I let her do with the photos as she pleases? I just feel it’s representing my work poorly and it does kind of bother me.
IG will cut your photos vertically so your original composition doesn’t really matter, if you know she is going to do this why not cropped them yourself and give her options? at the end of the day she will do whatever she wants with the pictures at least this way you will have a say.