Comments on: Rediscovering Square Cropping

By: Owen Glendower

Owen Glendower — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:00:24 +0000

“I love square prints, however I find it difficult to get decent frames that are square without getting them custom made!”

Good point, but you can avoid the cost of custom frames by buying unassembled lengths of molding, either metal or wood, from online suppliers or art-supply stores. And my local home center has a few basic frame profiles available in wood. Of course, assembling & finishing these would be tedious, unlike metal frames.

Of course, if you could find standard rectangular metal frames at a good price, you could simply buy two 8×10 frames and re-assemble them into 8×8 and 10×10.

I also keep an eye on the ready-to-hang “home decor” stuff which many stores carry these days. Sometimes it’s worth it to buy the item, toss the “artwork,” and just use the frame, and perhaps the matting.

By: Mandi

Mandi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:17:57 +0000

I use square crops all the time, they’re one of my favorite ways to make an image more interesting. Personally I don’t think they’re outdated at all.

By: Mei Teng

Mei Teng — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:56:16 +0000

I like square cropping. Sometimes, I use square cropping on my images.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:31:24 +0000

Ritzphoto prints square. 5×5, but you could print a square print on an 8×10 and get an 8×8 that way and trim the rest!

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:19:55 +0000

I love to square crop. Well actually I crop whatever is best for the picture, and if I can’t get the size I want in print I’ll get a full sized print and do my own cropping (scissors work quiet nicely). And I have found places that print square. Costco does it very reasonably as does MPix.

By: John Buddee

John Buddee — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:29:09 +0000

I actually think a lot of these pictures would be better in a rectangular format…

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:05:28 +0000

I love square prints, however I find it difficult to get decent frames that are square without getting them custom made!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:52:03 +0000

I’ve always found square photographs to be calming, quiet, and interesting. I’ve seen many portraits that I could hold my hands up, movie director like, in a square and find a real nice square image trying to get out of the rectangular.

Bob

By: Torax

Torax — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:23:18 +0000

No, i disagree. Cropping is as option for everyone to change the impression of the picture you already have. There are plenty of perfect pictures that need no cropping at all.

I thought about the square thumbnails of flickr or zooomr and I think they show the difficulty and the beauty of square pictures. The thumbnails are small enough to show only one point of interest and they tend to look great. But when you click on them to get the greater image most of the time you’ll be disappointed because the real thing can’t satisfy the expectations you got from the thumbnail.

Torax

By: charles

charles — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:47:24 +0000

cropping is a must if you are a good photographer

charles
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