I normally don't read everything in the boards, so I was not ready to read such an excentrical pose, that's the reason I wanted to react. (what about circular pictures? Or eliptical, this was very fashionable about 100 years ago)
I didn't forget to write something about a picture. I just wrote nothing, its simple like this...

HN: you dislike "vertical shooting"?

sounds bizarre for me.
most portraits are shot so (it gave this format the name), all posters, magazine covers, most of the books... I would wild guess that in the end ist this way of recepting a picture the most seen ever. But that's not the point. I simply can't imagine that something like this can play a role. What about square? :-)
It seems to me like when someone would say to me, he can eat a fish soup only if he would be wearing a fireman's helmet, just a little dada.