Comments on: On Facebook, The Square Format Photo is Now the King

By: Cate

Cate — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:24:20 +0000

I like the square crop too, but I suppose its the composition that drives the choice. We are trained so early to think portrait or landscape and build the compositions that way. Going ‘square’ makes me think more about how I’m setting up the shot. Then again, maybe I’m just overthinking.

By: horqua

horqua — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:48:03 +0000

I’m currently a Nikon user and I love digital but at one time I was a Hasselblad shooter for a number of years and I loved the square format. It did require some time to get used to. But I learned how to crop, first in the camera, and then on the negative. As far as I can tell, there are very few square format digitals that are affordable by the amateur, semi-pro or pro. Hasselblad’s current square-format digital systems are so far out of my price range that I can only hope to own one if I win the PowerBall. Nikon and Canon should consider the square-shooter in their next generation of digitals. It’s also unfortunate that Hassy or another company couldn’t figure out how to affordably retro-fit digital backs onto their older 500CM bodies. I know that Leaf and others make backs, but again the price is well above my pay grade. I struggled to come up with the $2000 to buy my first body, prism, back, and lens and that was thirty years ago. $10K+ now is just way over the top.

By: Khaled Monsoor

Khaled Monsoor — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:41:50 +0000

one of my math teacher used to say that the problem should tell you the path how to solve it. You just adapt to its language. that’s your learning.

imao, the picture should choose its own crop and frame. i just try to “listen” from itself. Yeah, i’m not that good at listening yet …

By: Chris Heurich

Chris Heurich — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:28:23 +0000

Original capture aspect ratio aside, the respective image suggests the crop for me.

By: Paul Glover

Paul Glover — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:14:22 +0000

Well, since my favorite camera right now is a 6×6 Yashica TLR, square will do me just fine!

By: Christophe Dillinger

Christophe Dillinger — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:22:30 +0000

And to prove you right, please visit the only online magazine dedicated to the square format. It’s free, it’s quarterly, it’s in 4 languages. http://www.squaremag.org

Hope you like what you see.

By: Clearlight

Clearlight — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:47:24 +0000

I favorite crop is whichever one I decide works best for a particular image. I also think that these multi-billion dollar social networks have the necessary resources to provide for image display in whatever aspect ratio the user chooses without some wonky workaround.

By: Robert-Paul Jansen

Robert-Paul Jansen — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:15:16 +0000

Love square crop, especially when photographers use it as the only ratio, like Cuba Gallery on flickr. I have tried using the square only for my landscapes, but it’s pretty hard to do.

Instagram changed the view from people on square crop, they forget it has been here forever. A good square crop is just gorgeous.

I hope g+ will copy this bit back from facebook and make square more present.

By: T.J. Powell

T.J. Powell — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:01:55 +0000

I love the square crop too. I use it on most of my mobile photography.

By: Jordan Oram (@maplemusketeer)

Jordan Oram (@maplemusketeer) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:18:43 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new Square Crop overlords… or “Sqrop” as they prefer to be addressed.
Long live Sqrop.

Which will lead into easy formatting multiple images into sets/arrangements of 4, or 6, 8, 9, etc.

Interesting..