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Square Crops…
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I’ve been looking at using square crops for a while since I seen some images done with them that looked nice. I’m not really sure what subject matter suits them best. Any tine I’ve used a square crop, I think that the image would look better with different crops.
I took this one this morning but I don’t think the square crop works. I would appreciate feedback on this image and also what type of images people think the square crop suits. I was trying to get nice and close to the couple while still keeping the breaking waves in the shot and I remembered the aquare crops I had seen so I gave it a bash.
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BrianI personally don’t see any problem with a square crop in this case. It’s not something I do very often myself, so can’t really comment with any degree of specialist knowledge. In this shot I like how the waves are creating a diagonal and the composition overall, to my eye at least, is quite pleasing.
Cheers for the comments. The main reason I thought it might prove well in the crop was that it caught the wave breaking and the couple walking very close together and meant I could discard some of the rest of the shoreline, try to keep only action areas (if thats a proper term, not sure) in the frame. Also it made it more 50/50 with the area where the people were walking and the area that was just sea.
Thanks for the comments though. Definitely not used to the auld square crop. But hopefully practice will help. :lol:
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BrianIs funny really. I used to crop whatever way I thought looked best for the individual image, and I still do to a degree. But then when I started to print some of my images, I realised that freeform cropping is not always helpful when you arrive at the print shop and you have to lob off a big lump of your pic to get it to fit a 10×8 or a 10×12 or A4 or whatever size you want to print.
So now, especially if I know I’ll want to print I make sure and crop to the proper dimensions for the print stage.
It’s not something that’s ever really pointed out in the photo books or manuals.
yeah I’ve only recently started to worry about what way I was actually cropping things because I only ever look at my pictures on a computer screen but I’m hoping to be printing some day (fingers crossed :roll: ) so I’ve been trying the 3-1 panoramic thing like Peter Cox suggested in some thread and I seen people with nice pictures in the square crop and then just kind of normal A4 ratio crops. Just to see how the pictures are looking with them. A tad more limiting but its interesting none the less.
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Is funny really. I used to crop whatever way I thought looked best for the individual image, and I still do to a degree. But then when I started to print some of my images, I realised that freeform cropping is not always helpful when you arrive at the print shop and you have to lob off a big lump of your pic to get it to fit a 10×8 or a 10×12 or A4 or whatever size you want to print
This is good advise, I was wondering what I was doing wrong when going to print :roll: Thanks Robbie.
I like the image and the square crop, although if I saw another dimension I might like it better, but what you have presented looks good. Nice bit of action.
Is it me or is it a bit noisy?
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PatTis indeed a bit noisy Pat but I’m starting to come up against a few limitations with my current camera. Saving like mad at the moment. :lol:
Cheers for looking anyways
Brian450D or else 40D if I can afford it but I want to leave myself money for a good lens as well. It will be my first foray into the DSLR market so i’m giving myslef plenty of time to do research :wink: (nothing to do with lack of money at all ) :lol:
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