Sideways photos

Am I the only one seeing so many photos that are sideways?

I believe the sideways photos are submitted from phones. I've noticed that also.

Guess there is not a cure other than using a laptop and turning it sideways... lol

Ah, I see. I will say that on many other sites they don't appear sideways. Is that because someone on the site corrects the orientation?

Don't know... I am not that computer literate. But I agree, this is the only place I've noticed it.

Perhaps they can find a cure.

That would be a good thing.

Generally side-ways pictures are due to the way the camera is held when shooting the shot. I might take a shot with the camera turned side-ways to get more of the subject. When I upload my shot to my computer (I use Easy Share), the picture comes out turned on its side. I then will click on "rotate" and turn the picture either left or right to make it straight. Even though I then "save" that corrected picture, when I upload it to Dave's Garden (or ATP for that matter) it will show the ORIGINAL side-ways picture. If the picture is turned to the right for example, I then have to go back into Easy Share, rotate the picture back to the left, and then when I upload it, it will be up-and-down, not side-ways.

Ken

Well, that's a lot of work, Ken. My camera will do that for me if I turn it. Very handy.

A bit of work for sure. I don't have a fancy camera (not a phone, a "real" camera). I get pictures sent to me all the time with side-ways pictures. They all were taken via a smart phone (I ask). That's what everyone seems to use nowadays. I am old fashioned (and old!). Perhaps you either have a more high-tech phone OR they simply don't know the trick of up-righting a picture.

Ken

I don't have a smart phone or even know how to use one. All of my photos come from a Canon Powershot point and shoot that cost me less than $250 or from my old Olympus point and shoot camera that cost about $100. I'm very low-tech. :)

Perhaps my Fuji FinePix S4000 will do that then. I will have to check it out. You and I may be the last two people on earth to use a camera that's not associated with a smart phone. LOL I also don't own a smart phone and would not know how to use one.

Ken

Fuji FinePix E550 here! No smart phone, no cell phone.

Some people just don't need the latest and greatest and they become outdated too soon anyhow.

Well said, pirl.

There's three of us! We are almost a gaggle!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Ken

My "kids" are 45 and 49. They sit wide-eyed as I tell them about dress codes in restaurants in the good old days! I'm so old that I remember when couples would dine together in restaurants without having their phones out...or worse - checking the phone constantly.

I stopped wearing jeans when they didn't feel as comfortable in the garden as softer materials. Maybe I am ancient but I'm happy, too.

I'm right behind you, pirl. Yes, those days seem like something out of a fairy tale to most kids these days.

The only jeans I wear now are stretchy with elastic in the waist. :)

I'm there too, going on 71. If I have been asked once, I have been asked 50 times: "How do you live without a cell phone?". That's right, I don't even own a cell phone, much less a smart phone. A cave man I am!

Ken

Same here, Ken. When people ask how I can travel any distance without a cell phone, I tell them I do it the same way I always have. We didn't have them for most of my life.

Yep. These kids and not so young adults, just cannot imagine a life without them. Personally, having people talk on one in restaurants and behind me while standing in a check-out line (well, everywhere!), irritates the crap out of me. What ever happened to privacy? Same with most of the "social" websites.

Ken

Ditto to all you two have mentioned.

I do laugh when people tell me that we should have cell phones so they could call us anytime. No thanks! Call me when I'm home, not out to dinner or at the doctor or supermarket.

Agree 100%! Call me at MY CONVENIENCE, NOT YOUR'S.

Well, I had to laugh here, mine aren't sideways, mine come out upside down .. From my iPad. I don't turn my iPad upside down to take the photos. They don't always appear upside down either, so I don't have a clue. When they are clicked on , they look fine however, it bothers me because I can't tell without opening it up if I put in the correct photo as it looks distorted upside down, you try turning it and it just goes in circles upside down. Lol. Too funny these new smart gadgets.

Most of the sideways and upside down pictures are from smart phones and tablets (iPad). When you shoot a picture on these devices the device knows the orientation that the picture was taken but not the traditional computers/servers. So everything looks hunky-dory to them until they post to the sites that have for the last umpteen years been geared to computers (desktops and laptops). Sure it is possible to post a sideways picture taken from a camera but most folks know how to orient them so they appear correct on their screen so when they do post it is correct for everybody. On a Windows machine, right click on the photo and click rotate clockwise or rotate counter clockwise is one way.

The tablet and phone group thinks there is something wrong with the site and not their device. I do believe there is an additional piece of information on each of the pictures taken with the new generation phone camera/tablet camera devices so they always orient the picture correctly on the device no matter how they turn their device. So there are two solutions: they fix the orientation as it would appear on a computer screen before posting or the picture with the extra information embedded in it is handled by the web server. The easiest way I know is to connect my phone to my computer and import the photos, then orient them before posting.

Here are two photos from my phone that I imported, rotated image of the twin oak to portrait, and landscape of some florist mums (no rotation).

Hmm, the link I provided came out blank so I edited to remove the link.

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What a beautiful pathway! I wish I lived in a place with that type of area, I think I'd live outdoors.

One DGer posted that slightly cropping the phone or tablet photo before posting will cause it it post correctly.

That pathway is the trail on the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. It's is nice and cool there in summer but don't step off the path due to all the poison ivy that is just waking up for another year - at least in many parts of the trails.

Here is poison ivy coming up, a cool little wildflower (#2 and #5), red horse chestnut, and sensitive fern waking up.

Cropping on the phone or PC? Which app did they use?

Kittriana is the one who suggested it.

If it is a photo you really want to see, you can copy it to your photo app, rotate and repost it. I have done that on previous threads when folks couldn't figure out how to turn it.

I do think that path looked more inviting right side up...

Good suggestion, steadycam.