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What aspect ratios do Pentax users like?

Started Oct 5, 2020 | Discussions thread
Phil A Martin
Phil A Martin Veteran Member • Posts: 8,363
Re: regardless of what aspect ratios Pentax like?

Regardless of what aspect ratios we like, I still think that the final image should conform to the aspect ratio of the camera used to take it. The camera provides a frame and we should use that frame to pull all the various elements into a composition that pleases us, when we take the actual picture.

Obviously some cameras do offer various aspect ratios to choose from, my Panasonic DMC LX100 for one but if you want a square, then I think it better to compose in a square and so on for other ratios. I think that this approach leads to more conscious observation and more rigorous composition and produces stronger images than fiddling about later in photoshop or the darkroom.

This was the approach of Cartier Bresson and other photographers who were inspired by him. They would often file out the negative carriers in their enlargers, so that a black line would be printed around the image, proving it was the full negative area and apart from one or two exceptional images, this was the approach he took for the majority of his images. What you see in his photographs, is what he saw in the viewfinder.

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