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Who are the masters of square composition?

  1. Look at the subject without the camera.
  2. Look through the viewfinder.
  3. Compose in the viewfinder just like you would do with any other camera.
  4. Review the print, and think about how you could make it better.
 
Merg Ross said:
From the past, I would suggest Eugene Meatyard. I visited him at his home in Kentucky in 1960 and was treated to a collection of powerful and well-crafted 8x8 photographs. A talented man, Gene died too young.
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My professor's favorite photographer, but then he used a Rollei and loved to do street portraits, and photograph family, and people in general. I have to admit that Meatyard was an influence even on this landscape photographer...

Calder, No Fear of Flying
Polaroid SX-70, 1997
 

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Sirius Glass said:
  1. Look at the subject without the camera.
  2. Look through the viewfinder.
  3. Compose in the viewfinder just like you would do with any other camera.
  4. Review the print, and think about how you could make it better.
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That's all sound advice. Lois Greenfield described using the square format as counterintuitive, but often counterintuitive really works.
 
Bill Brandt.
 
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