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Project: November 2008: Hip to be Square

Photo.net Monthly ProjectNovember 2008


No fancy techniques. No required subjects. Just a cropping decision. Shoot square, crop square, I don't care. no, I don't care.

The photography world is dominated by rectangles. How about some love for our friend the square? (Yes math geeks, I realize that a square is technically a rectangle.)

I think we, as photographers, naturally gravitate to the rectangular shape because that is how we see the world through our eyes. But cropping or shooting in a square, we can present a subject in a completely different way than if it was in a rectangular shape. If you have never thought about your images as a square, it's a wonderful thing to learn.

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Article created November 2008