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Originally Posted by Sirius Glass (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
Good photographers crop while they are taking the photograph. Then they print on large enough paper so that they do not have to crop again.

There is no law that demands that you print to standard size prints. If you like square then shoot square; if you like rectangular then shoot rectangular. Choose the format that you like but allow yourself to compose the the shape that you do not have with you when that is what is called for by the composition.

Steve

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Mike1234 said:

What if we want to shoot circularly or ovoid or w/a\v/e\y?

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Then shoot circularly or ovoid or w/a\v/e\y!

Steve

Sirius Glass said:

w/a\v/e\y

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no one said to use a minox and print images billboard size ...
no one even suggsted blowing a 35mm or 120 format negative that size.
but if that is what the photographer wanted, that is OK by me ...

i suppose there are 2 camps of photographers ..
some that believe that photographic images NEED to be eye piercingly sharp
so you can look at a 20x24 image and be nose to print and see no grain just whatever it is one needs to see ..
then there is another camp that doesn' t NEED images to be wickedly sharp, grain is OK, and they can stand a distance away from the print, to view it ..

neither is better than the other .. but they are both seem to be at odds with one another ...

as ian suggested, it is all about what the photographer wants to express ..