How To Filter Flickr Photos By Orientation

Slideshows and galleries can look a little inelegant if you mix photos of different orientations: i.e. they contain a mix of portrait (3×4) and landscape (4×3) photos.

The new restrict parameter aims to get around this problem by filtering out photos that do not match the restriction.

In the current release; only a single restriction is supported: restrict=”orientation”.

Here are some examples of this feature in action:

Landscape Gallery

If you specify restrict=”orientation” orientation=”landscape” Slickr Flickr will filter out any portrait photos and only display landscape photos.

[code]slickr-flickr search="galleries" gallery="72157625063376003" type="slideshow" orientation="landscape" restrict="orientation"[/code]

This has 5 landscape photos.

Portrait Gallery

Similarly if you specify restrict=”orientation” orientation=”portrait” Slickr Flickr will filter out any landscape photos and only display portrait photos.

[code]slickr-flickr search="galleries" gallery="72157625063376003" type="slideshow" orientation="portrait" restrict="orientation"[/code]

This has 2 portrait photos.

Full Gallery With No Restriction

If no restriction is applied that you get the mix of portrait and landscape photos

[code]slickr-flickr search="galleries" gallery="72157625063376003" type="slideshow" [/code]

This has 7 photos.

In later release I plan to add to the restrictions.

For example restriction=”min-height=350″ could filter out any (letterbox) photos that were too short to display in a slideshow where the rest of the photos are of standard landscape size size (500px by 375 px).

Updated by Russell.