What's the best way to photograph gas pumps?

I can think of three ways to do it.

I'm using a standard camera, not a phone.

1: Photograph in landscape orientation, which will include a lot of non-pump picture on each side of the pump.

2: Photograph in portrait orientation, which puts nothing but the pump in the picture, but leaves it turned sideways when you look at it, leading to:
2a: Rotate it on your computer.
2b: Leave it turned sideways.

By the way, we're talking about gas pumps with winged horses on them.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/2014 10:18PM by Ishmael.

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My choice has always been 2a

I'm 2a too.

I shoot it portrait. My computer automatically takes care of the orientation from the data that's embedded in the picture [time, date, camera orientation, etc.].

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I use my Canon and back up a bit and shoot! If I need a close up, I just use the camera to zoom in a bit. I've never had to rotate anything. It's all good. I just resize them to 1/2, rename them and done!

I'm with JB. I just shoot with my iphone in portrait and it rotates it for me. If for some reason it doesn't rotate one, I just leave it. Let the editors earn their pay and nobody's ever complained.

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I found that when I took the pictures with my iPhone, they were all sideways. Sometimes they turn and sometimes not. They all look upright when I upload them to the computer but when I upload them into the report sometimes they are sideways. I started taking them with my digital camera.
When I did a phone audit this week, I also used my camera since I did not want to rotate as many as 35 pictures. When I mentioned it to someone in the phone store, they thought it might be that I am using an iPhone 4 and it is just a glitch with iO7.

2b - Hundreds with old company, about 30 with new company. All approved.

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