Going to Disney World soon - would it be crazy if I...

I totally understand. I prefer vertical for most pictures and it drives my husband crazy. I hope you have a fantastic vacation. Good luck with the photos.

Maybe you could try and take MOSTLY horizontal photos, but if you really need to take a vertical shot of something, you could either print it as a 3x4, or you could print a vertical photo in two 4x6's to fill 2 horizontal pockets, making it really a 6x8 (that would be great for a photo of Cinderella's castle, for example). If you're using Design A protectors, you could cut the bottom 4x6 photo in half vertically to achieve that same 6x8 effect.

I think it's a good idea and will make for much less trouble getting your pictures ready for PL. The good thing about Disney is that the surroundings look good no matter where you are! So if you have to step back to get everything in the frame you want horizontally, the photo will still look good. You can always zoom in on faces and keep the shot horizontal. I naturally take most of my pictures horizontally, except when I use the iphone, and even then I usually end up cropping square and backing with patterned paper for PL or even just cropping my vertical photo into a horizontal 4x6.

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You could try taking a vertical and a horizontal of your more key shots and see how that works. But I don't think it's crazy. On our last trip, I took pictures at every ride. So there was a vertical picture of DH & I because it's easier for me to take selfies that way (plus DH is a lot taller than me and it just works better that way). Then took a horizontal picture of the ride. It's been such a pain for me to scrapbook since most of the pages have an L shape design.  We're going on this week and I am going to pay attention to picture orientation. 

Most of mine are unintentionally horizontally done. Just because that's natural for me. The exception is the casle, cos it's kinda hard to get all of you and all of it in a photograph horizontally, but just plan for a few, all together in a back-to-front kind of way, portraits as well.

Well, for my last trip I made sure we wore clothes that color coordinated with the Say Cheese line of paper. I had a ton of it and was having trouble using it. So, I don't think orienting your pictures for your layouts is all that strange. I do take mostly horizontal pictures and have to remind myself to take some verticals because I like the look of them on my layouts (although I don't do PL.)

Don't beat yourself up if you take some vertical photos. These days, I print them at 3" x 4" unless that would be too small to be worthwhile. If you want them full size, remember you should be able to find mini-album refill pages for 5" x 7" and 6" x6" inserts. (Personally, I love to mix page sizes in my albums. )

Have a great trip!

I buy postcards all the time! Sometimes people are in the way or you're not allowed to use a flash.....here's another trick that you probably use. I take pictures of the names of things and use it as my title! 

Having just finished my Disney album for our trip last year, I know a lot of my favorite photos were vertical orientation. I think there is a lot about Disney that just better lends itself to that orientation (castle, characters and their detailed costumes etc). I can appreciate the ease of all horizontal and maybe if you have a larger group and will have a lot of group shots it will be easier. When most of my photos were just me & my husband or us with a character, vertical was just more common.

If you plan on handing your camera off to the Photo Pass photographers it'll be tougher to keep the shots consistent as well unless you want to tell all those photographers to keep the camera one way. Personally I wouldn't want to be preoccupied with which way I'm holding my camera; I'd rather concentrate on getting the shot I want and worry about scrapping it later...but that's just my opinion.

I would have a hard time doing that just because the scenery at Disney lends itself to vertical. I try to alternate the page designs, but it is frustating.

I couldn't do it. We're going to DisneyWorld in a few months too and I already know I'm going to buy the Photo Pass CD. When we went on our Disney Cruise we bought the CD (which came with ALL the photos they printed for us to look at too) and many of the character photos were vertical. It will be interesting to see how the pics from this trip compare.

Why not just print the verticals as 2 3x4s on a 4x6, cut it in half and put them in the A pockets? I'm pretty sure my photo printer even has that as a standard choice on the menu with the collage options. Or just mix in some different sized page protectors so you could use a few random verticals? Of course, I don't mind that look--different page sizes in the same album.

I think it's a fun idea, but I'd probably take both a horizontal and vertical of each picture. It really wouldn't take much longer per shot.

I've been lucky enough to go to Disney properties enough that I have all the "standard" shots, so now I think of different themes to do. Two of my favorites were characters and the alphabet. It was really fun to look for things that fit each letter and made a fun scrapbook to look at.

I hope you have a great trip!