Date posted: 11 March 2022
Posted by: Peter Bennett

When you look at your smartphone, say to read a text message, the phone will be in portrait orientation. It's the way we all use our phones. If you use your smartphone to take a few photographs for the club, please turn the phone sideways. When you turn the phone sideways it will be in landscape orientation. 

We love to get photographs of golfing activities. However, there is a good deal of extra work involved processing photos that are in portrait orientation. It takes extra time, and each image has to be processed individually.  If you are using a smartphone please turn the phone sideways to landscape orientation.

Landscape orientated photos fit perfect on a web page.

Here's an example of the extra work involved in processing a photo. The orientation has to be "corrected" so that it display correctly on a computer screen. It involves extra work. And it's even more problematic if there is a batch of photos. Here's an illustration.

A few years ago, a member took the following photograph of a prize giving in the club.

	A photo taken in portrait orientation on a smartphone.		Photo has to be cropped so that it will display correct on screen.

	The "corrected" image for use on the website.

Cameras on smartphones have improved enormously over the past few years, and many give impressive results. But in low light conditions where the phone's flash is fired the results are not alway great. The club has a Nikon and a powerful flash. This is a semi-professional kit which can be used for taking photos of prize givings and other events.