Instagram. The square crop

I have had an Instagram account (@NomadPhotography) for quite sometimes now and it is its recently thatI have been using it more fluently than I use Facebook.

Funny enough, I find myself mainly using Instagram now.

At the start, I found it a bit frustrating to be limited to the square crop, just because in my style of shooting, I like to have as much ambient as possible viagra prodej. By ambient, I mean the background, the surrounding, the context..

By now, the square crop or format makes more and more sense to me. It is limited, yes, but still allows you to show the essentials of the photograph, the essentials of the story.

 

 

When started out, I remember having an “affection” for big and long lenses, I liked to fill (part) of my subject in the frame, I liked to have that compression effects only available with long focal lengths. With age :O and time, I find myself steering my preference to lighter gears and shooting more and more full lengths images, with more ambient to them.

Luckily, modern dSLR give you more and more pixels to play with for cropping.

 

During a photoshoot, I always have a “vague” idea of the final image that I want to create yet I don’t always think about the final crop. I have learnt to leave some air to breath around the edge of the image, just for distortion correction and also for square cropping.

 

 

The more I use Instagram, the more I find it above the rest of all the social/sharing networks. Not only the interface is simple, yet it is a very powerful networking tool. Especially now that Instagram has included direct messaging. I’ve heard some people yelling against it but it is not because it is there that you have to use it. For those who don’t like the feature, well simply don’t use it..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The images you see above have a mix of edits either from and/or ACR (Adobe Camera Raw), Lightroom, Photoshop combined with Instagram filters.

What is your preferred crop ..? Share your images and leave a comment below.

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