Whatever camera I'm shooting, I only shoot in the native AR and crop later.
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Yup that's me. My cameras take 3:2 ratios but I crop them to anything I want after the fact. The idea that we are somehow stuck with whatever ratio the camera takes is a holdover from film. Even with film if you print your own you can use different ratios depending on the ratio of the print paper.
It depends on the content of the photo. I always do some cropping in post-processing. §:2 is standard as this is the standard of my cameras. Sometimes 16:9 works fine for landscape. Very often 4:3 is much better for my macro work. In rate cases I go 1:1 or 6:7.
1) This thread was just recently done
I very rarely use the camera's native aspect ratio.
My cameras each have a fixed aspect ratio - two of them are 3:2, one is 4:3. So when shooting I always "use" what the cameras offer.
When viewing photos I choose an aspect ratio that best suits the picture and display medium. For portrait orientation 3:4 usually works best regardless of medium but sometimes 4:5 or 2:3.
It never has been. Go to any picture gallery, look at a book or magazine. Pictures come in all aspect ratios.
The only time aspect ratio might be fixed is when buying prints from companies who hold stocks of standard sizes. Custom printing has always offered complete flexibility.
When most monitors and televisions were 4:3, I shot 4:3 to fill the screen, and I liked that aspect ratio. With the advent of wider monitors and televisions, I tried 16:9, but found it more difficult to compose shots with. To fill the screen a little better than 4:3, I went back to 3:2, which I shot for decades with 35mm slide film.
Personally speaking, a square format is maybe the only aspect ratio that I just can't stand. I have one image out of my entire 10's of thousands, which just needed to be cropped as a square, and it was an otherwise pleasing image too, wonderful color.... But I just can't bring myself to post it on my website, as that square format just looks atrocious !
Lol Sorry. 3:2 native format of my camera
As one who shoots hybird photo/video and landscapes it's 16:9. Equally second is 2:3, 4:3, and 3:1.
