I’ve seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?
If that is so why don’t they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops
Art galleries do this. They give some breathing room and space between each piece causing you to focus on one piece at a time. Imagine if museums tried to cram as many artworks as possible on one wall. That’s what instagram is like sometimes.