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The Exercise in Style for September is Square Crop. It's a style I love, but have great difficulty explaining why. The symmetry and balance seem particularly suited to some images.

As such, the aim is to create an image that is composed and balanced for a square crop. Use your eye to previsualise an image within the rectangular viewfinder of most of our cameras, seeing ahead to the final outcome. You can shoot whatever subject you like.

Images must be taken during September.

Here is an example of mine to get the ball rolling. Good luck everyone

During September? Hmm...

Time to grab the cam out there for a walk

Here's one taken at Oberon dam at sunset. Square format was the only possible composition I could make this work with:



Cheers
Steffen.

One from today that I thought worked well in a square crop.

Patrick, great choice of format. Steffen and Kris like both examples

I reckon you're blowing your own trumpet there Kris..

Nice image from you but I can't see Steffen's at present.

Good theme Pat - should bring out some interesting stuff.

Manta wrote:I can't see Steffen's at present.

Hmm, can't see why not. When did you try? Do you know what IP address you where coming from?

Cheers
Steffen.

Hmm, not much interest in "thinking inside the square"? I've found the square format strangely interesting lately.

I used to think how boring it must be to shoot 6x6... However, the more I try square crops the more I like them. Arranging something inside a square seems much more pleasing to me now. Maybe it's because of the awkwardness of the 3:2 or 4:3 formats we're usually stuck with in the digital age (I wish they made 1:1.414 sensors, that would be the ultimate versatile format).

Here's another square image:



I hope the Bigpond sprites won't get in the way of this again...

Cheers
Steffen.

First time for me entering an exercise in style, so here is my square(ish) crop. It's 6 pixels extra on 2 sides.....I hope that doesn't matter!

Nice pic Jane, hold down the shift key while using the crop tool will give you a 1:1 aspect ratio.

Here's my first go.

That's a ripper thelastname. Had "square crop" written all over it right from the start.

This is what I took last week (I think or maybe I put it online then) and for some reason I liked it best with a square canvas.

I took this on Wednesday. What do you think?

Ok... my one from the portrait workshop today...

Here's my attempt at square crop

Wether it suits the shot or not, i dont know..


d70s, 24-120vr, sb800, fong's lsp2 pj

Square Crop of a visitor at home last night.
Does this work? Taken with the 70-300D.
Craig


Another view.

Here is my take on a square crop, a portrait of a special little girl. Her parents were rapt with it, which made me happy.



Cheers, John

I took this photograph last month, but I think it looks alright with a square crop.

Square Crop from a recent meet, here is a detail shot of tiles on a grave in disrepair.

My entry for the square crop exercise:



Taken (handheld) with the Sigma 70-300 in macro mode, SB-800 (off-camera) in remote mode.
200mm @ 1/320sec. f22, ISO200
Slight PP (Levels, Burn Tool, Saturation, Lab USM) applied

Edit: Alerted Craig to wrong link - now fixed.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, copied and pasted the wrong link.

Oops.

Am i too late?? (Photo is taken during September)