Lately I’ve been loving square photos. It’s funny, it goes in stages; from square to landscape to portrait. For several months, before the square thing, I was cropping almost everything 4 x 5.
Maybe it’s an instagram thing….seeing the world squared? I’m not sure. But I do know I’ve always been drawn to square photos.
How ’bout you? Do you crop? Squares… love ’em? not so much? Share with us today.
Beautiful image. I don't do Instagram but I do find myself cropping most of my photos square these days. I absolutely love square format! http://instamaticgratification.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/267366-2/
I love square crops 🙂
Mostly I crop either landscape or square – somewhat unusually for me, there are two portrait shots in my post today: http://unusualmagic.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/sometimes-scarlet-melbourne.html
I love the look of squares, but how do you print them?
Sometimes, nothing will do but a square…
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I do love squares, although it also comes and goes in stages…
Right now I'm into one and this is my shot from yesterday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carito345/8078784310/in/photostream
love the square crops 🙂 http://www.flickr.com/photos/heather-cox/8050584507/in/photostream
Oh Kim!
I love square too these days. I think it's because of Instagram! I love going there. Seriously such a happy place for me. Making friends at the Behind the scenes class is an important part of it. It is wonderful to have a community that understands you. Very empowering. I love the shutter sister prompts too. They are awesome! Make me really think outta the box.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
xxxx
Squares have long been a favourite of mine. Both my children have albums that are built for 8×8 squares. Cheers!
Gorgeous image, Kim. I love the square crop too, not because of Instagram, but because it's a very balanced and serene shape, and some subjects just look so much better in one!
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I love a square crop and use it quite often. Here is one from earlier this week, taken in my downtown – window reflections with a Pop Art feel:
http://flic.kr/p/dhTBYw
Gorgeous image, Kim! I'm a big fan of squares. It's always fun to compose within different shape restrictions/parameters.
~ Anna VanDemark
There are times I like squared images and times I do not. Mainly because I know what is missing.
Just landed on your visually beautiful blog & I must say I love your photos! I have liked the square look….I went through my circle phase and banner stage too. Have a lovely weekend!
~DeniseAngela~
Kim, I do love squares.
http://traceyclark.com/shuttersisters/the-daily-click/2012/7/19/melodys.html
Love square images. For me it's a hipstamatic thing! Favorite iPhone camera app. 🙂
that's a very pretty image.
I really love square images — a lot.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27458974@N00/8081606471
I love squares too! Not sure why, I guess I just like symmetrie..
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i've been partial to squares for years now..there's just something very familiar and unpretentious about squares for me.
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Gorgeous shot!!
I love squares, too! Sometimes it's just the right choice 🙂
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I like them but not much. it depends on what photo you want to portray 🙂
I love squares, lately I have been mostly taking Polaroids.
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i used to stick to the same crop as the original image. now i will crop any which way that makes the image portray what i remember seeing.
i was gifted a second-hand medium format camera for my birthday and i'm loving the challenge of composing images in square format rather than the rectangular format of 35mm and most dslr cameras.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoniewise/8022520048
i also love the slightly-off square format of polaroids. yes.
Hello Kim! That square rose picture?…. Sublime!
Yep, love squares too nowadays. To me it's definitely an IG influence.
It goes a little further than that… It makes me very conscious about composition. I mostly use the Camera Awesome camera and that's normal landscape format, so I have to think about the square cropping before shooting. A good exercise in composing 😉
Thanks so much for introducing me some months ago to i-Phoneography, to IG, to my first photo apps… You are a real inspiration!
Enjoy oasis and have a nice trip to LA!
Marleen xo
I love all sorts of shapes but squares just hit the spot. I love Instagram but there are others that are chasing IG. I love MagicHour all those lovely filters..