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It depends on which camera. If a shoot square, I compose square. I have a habit of looking at the edges of my viewfinder and shoot accordingly.
It depends on which camera. If a shoot square, I compose square. I have a habit of looking at the edges of my viewfinder and shoot accordingly.I did lots of squares decades ago. Then when I got out of 6 x 6 I didn't do much with squares. I'm enjoying getting back into them.
How bout you and squares?
It depends on which camera. If a shoot square, I compose square. I have a habit of looking at the edges of my viewfinder and shoot accordingly.
As do I-I have cropped a couple to rectangular, but I'm now thinking they'd look better square.It depends on which camera. If a shoot square, I compose square. I have a habit of looking at the edges of my viewfinder and shoot accordingly.
I did lots of squares decades ago. Then when I got out of 6 x 6 I didn't do much with squares. I'm enjoying getting back into them.
How bout you and squares?
... I never seen square painting.
I’m finding square as odd, primitive and boring. I never seen square painting.
I crop 6x6 to normal paper size. Old pros told me it was norm back then.
As do I-I have cropped a couple to rectangular, but I'm now thinking they'd look better square.
I’m finding square as odd, primitive and boring. I never seen square painting.
I crop 6x6 to normal paper size. Old pros told me it was norm back then.
I'm gradually coming round to the idea that 6x6 is the ideal compromise format.
I look at LP and CD cover photographs and I can often see ways to crop it to a rectangular format. I find it more difficult to visualise a square crop from a rectangular photograph. That is probably down to my eye not being trained enough for that. I'm sure that some of those LP/CD covers started as rectangular images.
I'm no purist when it comes to cropping. I cut my teeth on a scale focus 35mm. I soon learned to avoid parallax errors by getting more in the shot, just in case. Composition was done at the enlarger.
With 6x6 negs, I can crop to 5:4 either landscape or portrait. If the planets align, I might even get a decent square composition.
ADOX sells the MCC 110 / 112 in various square format sizes. (Temporarily unavailable, though - there is a thread about this)You can buy Ilford MGIV RC paper in 10 x 10” in the UK. Not sure if any of their other paper is sold in that size though. Even satin RC isn’t available in that size, only the gloss as far as I know.
Awesome, incredible picture!!! How did you do it? with some sort of crystal ball?
- I shoot 645 format but do occasionally shoot with square in mind, so crop the photo accordingly.
- Example...
- View attachment 216406
I think some people feel at home with a certain format, others don't. For me the format I feel most at home with is 6x6.I did lots of squares decades ago. Then when I got out of 6 x 6 I didn't do much with squares. I'm enjoying getting back into them.
How bout you and squares?
Square Magazine
http://www.squaremag.org/
A free magazine with only photos in a square format.
Appears four times a year.
It's simply a glass ball made by a company called Lensball. Placed on the sand, shot at ground level with a macro lens, cropped to a square and then the whole picture inverted, as images through glass balls are themselves inverted.Awesome, incredible picture!!! How did you do it? with some sort of crystal ball?
It's simply a glass ball made by a company called Lensball. Placed on the sand, shot at ground level with a macro lens, cropped to a square and then the whole picture inverted, as images through glass balls are themselves inverted.
Definitely cheaper than the Hasselblad CF 24mm IHI ! Not sure how the results compare, though...https://lensball.com/ Somewhat silly, but I want one. Cheap. View attachment 235911
Square paper of all sorts is easily available from IT Supply.What I'm saying is that a 50mm lens in 35 format gives you far less coverage on the vertical as it does the horizontal. The equivalent 75mm medium format lens gives you the same horizontal angle of view as the 35format lens, but it is far wider vertically. Don't shoot the 6x6 format camera with the intent to crop, try using it to your advantage instead. If you can't see in squares then shoot with a more rectangular format. It all depends on subject matter. I mostly shoot square, but for my arctic landscapes I mostly use a rotating panorama camera as is better suits the subject.
I don't think they sell square paper - you're going to have to crop the paper...
Unfortunately, not gelatin silver.Square paper of all sorts is easily available from IT Supply.
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