Instagram Isn't Just For Square Photos Anymore (theverge.com) 45
Instagram now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos, allowing users to upload images that "appear just exactly as you shot it." Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the update in a Threads post, noting that "almost every phone camera defaults to" that format. The Verge reports: An image from Instagram's broadcast channel shows how the change makes a difference. You can already post images with a rectangular aspect ratio of 4:5, but with 3:4, your photo won't be cropped at the ends. 3:4 photos are supported with single-photo uploads and with carousels, according to the channel. If you want, you can still post photos with a square or 4:5 aspect ratio.
The fucks? (Score:5, Informative)
Instagram has allowed non-square photos for years. And their UI browser even allowed a non-square layout of photos on a user's profile for at least a year as well. What's changed? They formally announced a feature that's been there forever now?
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But always twirling, twirling!
Re:Had it for years, publicity stunt? (Score:1)
It's the Trump Era: take credit for everything and anything, unless it's unpopular, then blame it on the prior schmuck.
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Didn't make it past the title?
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Instagram has allowed non-square photos for years. And their UI browser even allowed a non-square layout of photos on a user's profile for at least a year as well. What's changed? They formally announced a feature that's been there forever now?
There are 108 words in the summary. It would have been faster to read them than it was to type your post. No I won't tell you what changed. Use your eyes, someone has already done the work for you. It's right there for you to read.
Too bad (Score:2)
I stopped sharing my artwork on IG when Facebook decided to start spamming my feed with posts from various groups intended to be hostile towards LGBT*. I'm on BlueSky now and have no interest in looking back, even if they did make it easier to post.
Re: Too bad (Score:2)
I need the visibility and it's unreasonable of me to expect any service to exist in perpetuity, let alone maintain it's startup fantasies of being able to sleep at night.
Lack of centralization isn't the biggest factor, and gatekeeping about it anonymously on a Friday Night ain't impressing anybody you might care to.
Re: Too bad (Score:2)
"...everybody's a pedo."
whatever.
But why? (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously, a pox on the house of whoever uses portrait orientation for shots that should clearly be in landscape orientation.
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No problem, AI will soon fix it at the push of the button! Disclaimer: may append extra relatives you don't recognize.
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a pox on the house of whoever uses
And to all who do the opposite.
In general, to all who don't share my highly exquisite taste in whatever.
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Seriously, a pox on the house of whoever uses portrait orientation for shots that should clearly be in landscape orientation.
What clearly should be in landscape? The photo or video is clearly in the format the person taking the photo or video thinks it should be in. Want something different, go to the location and shoot it with your own art direction in mind.
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It ain't art, and they aren't photographers or videographers.
That isn't for you to judge or gatekeep.
3:2 (Score:3)
>"Instagram now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos, allowing users to upload images that "appear just exactly as you shot it."
Unless you are using a prosumer or professional camera which is typically 3:2/2:3?
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Unless you are using a prosumer or professional camera which is typically 3:2/2:3?
What does a prosumer or professional camera have to do with Instagram? ;-) Can you see your likes on your Nikon Z9?
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>"What does a prosumer or professional camera have to do with Instagram? ;-) "
Who knows. I have never been in InstantGram. But I know they do photos and there are other sources of photos besides phones.
Besides, even on phones there are other photo capture aspect ratios than 3:4. Mine is set for 16:9, I believe.
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Besides, even on phones there are other photo capture aspect ratios than 3:4. Mine is set for 16:9, I believe.
Indeed, but Instagram is built largely for not just sharing photos taken on a phone, but sharing photos that are taken in the app. It really doesn't matter what you set your camera on your phone to. The vast majority of content is either taken through the app, or prepared specifically for the app and it's aspect ratio.
By the way even the highest end cameras have options to customised the aspect ratio recorded. There's no rule saying you need to use every pixel, to say nothing of the fact that there are plen
Re: 3:2 (Score:2)
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>"Thanks grandpa"
For what, the wisdom? Or because I like/own/use a full-frame camera that blows away any cell-phone photos? Or because I don't "do" Instagram?
Moronic changes vs return to hashtags and squares (Score:2)
People want hashtags and people want their Square Ratio Feed back.
Hashtags were taken away because it was free advertising vs using Facebook's Business Center's ad console. Encroaching upon Facebook's ad revenue was the last straw, and hashtags were taken away. Not for any other purported reason.
For the Squares, they did it only to seem interesting, but TikTok has kept relatively the same layout and same features but
What? (Score:2)
I confess I have never used Instragram (they demanded my phone number in order to sign up, screw that) but isn't it a photo sharing site? Why would anyone use a photo sharing site that arbitrary crops their photos?
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I've never used it either but I can kind of see the appeal of square. They work the same no matter how the phone was held and always fit into a nice grid. For anything else, with a mix of portrait and landscape you either need to crop some photos, add extra space or sort of tetris them together to build layouts. Changing the order can radically change the layout in some of those cases too.
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Correct. Square is superior when presenting collections of images, particularly when the display device is unknown.
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Nah. Square is boring. It requires a bit of effort to make a decent contact sheet with non-square images, but it's more interesting. E.g. https://images.app.goo.gl/rEBy... [app.goo.gl]
Not that Instagram does that anyway. It's just a scroller like everything else.
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I find it's fairly rare for me to come across a scene where I really want a square image, but I do occasionally shoot with my square format 120 film TLR camera (Yashica 12), and I have had cases where the composition works out nicely in that format. But it's relatively rare. People are not square while landscapes tend to look better in, umm, landscape orientation. Maybe if I shot 1:1 format more I would see the world a bit differently and find more compositions that work well in it.
Re: What? (Score:1)
Also some spherical ones.
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but isn't it a photo sharing site?
No it wasn't. It was billed as a mobile check-in app that allowed you to attach selfies. It was never about sharing original photos and has always placed arbitrary limits on form factor. From the very beginning it wasn't about sharing your photos, but about sharing where you were, and slapping a fancy filter on it.
Note that isn't in and of itself a bad thing. The 35mm film format also placed arbitrary restrictions on how you shot your images, as did the 3:2 photo frames you bought from the store when you go
where is SuperKendall, professional photographer? (Score:2)
I can't wait to hear SuperKendall's opinion on this subject, given that he's a published professional photographer and all.
More boring post ever (Score:2)
Hexagon photos (Score:2)
I recently did a little Raspberry Pi Pico project that came with a round display. Fascinating little round panels are pretty cheap now days. Then formatting images so they were centered nicely on the round display and the important elements of the image went right up to the edge. Simple stuff like a clock face is very easy.
But that little hobby project got me thinking. Why not hexagon images? I mean I'm not going to hold my breath for tileable hexagon displays, there are a lot of caveats at the hardware lev
What about 3:2 (Score:2)
The default aspect ratio for all ILC cameras except micro four thirds is 3:2. Of course, I would never use IG anyway.
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There were interchangeable lens medium format cameras with 1:1 aspect ratio on 120 film. As for digital, the Hasselblad X2D is 4:3.
'bout time the EU mandated 16x9 (Score:2)
4x3 is sooo passe
Finally! (Score:2)
After years of waiting, I can now upload all my triangular photos!
appear just exactly as you shot it. (Score:2)
I shoot 2:3. Liars.