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

  • Drama79@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In addition, a white frame left and right allows a portrait image to be shown in full aspect ratio. Instagram displays portraits at 1080 x 1350 pixels, 4:5 aspect ratio. Which is fine on a crop sensor camera, but full frame images are 2:3, 4x6 etc.

    So for full frame images, a white frame allows you to display the full image. Or at least, that’s partly why I do it. The separation is a thing too.