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Forum: Photographic Technique
03-18-2009, 08:58 PM
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With film you were stuck with whatever format your film camera used. You could change things in the darkroom with cropping if you wanted and later with scissors. While I try to compose the best I can with the camera, I will sometimes crop to whatever size I think looks better. With digital this is real easy. I'm sure there is some kind of rule being broken but if I think my picture looks better shaped like a bowling pin, why not? My first camera was a twin lens Kodak that took square pictures on 620 film. 35mm is rectangular. Then we buy frames to display them with the matte cut in circles, ovals or whatever we think looks best. I don't think a photo has to remain in the same shape as it was shot.
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