What's the deal with during the camera sideways to take a shot?

RandyMN wrote in post #7091329
Lens is round, but the film plane or the sensor is square. (That is unless you have a particular medium format camera's)

Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

Rick "who never once turned his Rolleiflex on its side, but turned it upside down a couple of times" Denney

I used to turn my 35mm vertical to take pictures once in a while, but when I got the prints back they were sideways so I would just throw them away.

Toeslider wrote in post #7127498
I used to turn my 35mm vertical to take pictures once in a while, but when I got the prints back they were sideways so I would just throw them away.

Heh! I hated it when that happened -- half my photos were trashed!

It is a very sensible question if asked about my 6x6 mf camera, but then I never turn that

rdenney wrote in post #7127357
Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

Okay but what shape is tater wedges?

bacchanal wrote in post #7162485
Okay but what shape is tater wedges?

Wedge...

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Wedge_(geometry)

How did I miss this thread???

I was a foreman at a plastic manufacturing plant and one day I saw smoke pouring out of the break room. I ran to the door and down the smoke filled hall to the break room to find the microwave on fire. After extinguishing the appliance and clearing the smoke, the offending employee explained that he had put his coffee in the microwave to warm it up... IN A STAINLESS STEEL MUG!!!

When I asked Joe what in the #$$L was he thinking, he replied that, "it was round"...............?​??

Apparently, he got the idea that if it was round it was okay. And to think this was a guy the 2nd shift foreman hired and was training to operate multi-thousand dollar extruders in a multi-million dollar facility. Needless to say, he and the foreman didn't last much longer after that incident.

"It was round... " *sigh*

Duncan Frenz wrote in post #7627691
"It was round... " *sigh*

That's my new excuse

A new twist on an old theme:

You guys talk about horizontal and portrait orientation a lot.

What about that cool and original shot of a lamp post that runs from top left to bottom right, at an <insert three boomp boomp boomp tones here> ....angle??

LW Dail wrote in post #7628218
A new twist on an old theme:

You guys talk about horizontal and portrait orientation a lot.

What about that cool and original shot of a lamp post that runs from top left to bottom right, at an <insert three boomp boomp boomp tones here> ....angle??

Okay, what about it?!!

There one very simple rule when you take a photo. If you like it, it's good. If you don't like it, it's crap.

Right off the top of my head, I can think of at least one professional photo that broke virtually all the rules of exposure and composition, but was fantastic! The trick with all the rules is to learn them well enough that you will know when it's time to break them.

I usually turn my camera BEFORE the shot, not DURING!

lol well it depends on what you are shooting. landscape vs portrait...

Like Quality Control in the M &M's factory.. They throw out all the "W"'s...

nivla80 wrote in post #7631988
Like Quality Control in the M &M's factory.. They throw out all the "W"'s...

And the '3' and the 'E' get culled out, too!

I know this is an old thread but I completely cracked up when I read the title. And I do remember my noob days very well. I can remember asking the question, "which shot will give me a wider image, a shot with a 10-22 at 17 mm, or a shot with a 17-55 at 17 mm". It's amazing how little we know when we first start out.