I have a question for all the folks that shoot square: How do you print your photographs? Do you print square? Do you crop in the darkroom and print in a "traditional" ratio?
Pretty cool using an Ilford Sporti for weddings. If I had known that I would have you booked you for mine!
If you crop a rectangle from the top of the frame, it's like shooting a horizontal shot with front rise on a view camera, so there are some attractions to cropping with 6x6 over shooting 645.
By the way, a square is a rectangle.
Yes. When you shift a lens to correct perspective, you are also moving the film plane towards the edge of the lens, just as you would when cropping from a square negative. It's exactly the same thing.Cropping from the top would be using more of the edge of the lens and less of the center. Can that really considered comparable to using movement on a bellows camera or using a shift/tilt lens?
By the way, a square is a rectangle.
I asked because I've never really considered the square format before I always felt it would be limiting.
Thanks for all the great responses. I asked because I've never really considered the square format before I always felt it would be limiting but I've taken an interest in it recently and I'm going to give it a go. I think that there are a lot of possibilities for it in my work.
Take care,
Jim
BTW, it isn't (but is). A rectangle, as defined in some places, has adjacent sides that are of unequal length.
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