Well, really rare for me.
A long time ago I figured out that our eyesight is, at least partially due to the horizontal orientation of our eyes, landscape rather than portrait. A lot of photography in the old days had to do with the portrait orientation of Life magazine et al and more recently cell phones. This is not necessarily good or bad, it just is. Anyway, there is my philosophical analysis (excuse?).
Consequentially, since I quit photographing for publication many years ago, I have taken very few vertically oriented photographs, instead choosing to include more space, potentially irrelevant and distracting, to the sides to force a horizontal layout. As Chief Dan George said in Little Big Man, "Some days the magic works, and some days it doesn't."
Or, as Theodore Sturgeon once said in a completely different context, "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
While this is a vertical construct, all the individual pieces started out as horizontal images.
Interesting post, Andrew. I was working on some photos this morning; and while in the process, I was thinking about my preference for portrait crops rather than landscape. Didn't have any reason, but I definitely do more portrait crops than landscape. I like your idea of placing multiple horizontal layers into a vertical crop, and it works really well to create a cascading subject. Great concept!
More often I combine a series of vertical images to create a horizontal image. These were hanging on a mailbox. What was to both sides was the street, sometimes interesting in its own right, but not this time.
Definitely works well, and I like it!
Awfully cool!
Hi Andrew, I must say tat I enjoy seeing how you are using layers to build images. That certainly has an interesting effect.
This reminds me of a series by Pep Ventosa ('Reconstructed Works') in which he builds a scene from a large number of smaller images. Following is a link if interested;
https://www.pepventosa.com/gallery.html?gallery=Reconstructed+Works&foli...