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Should I limit myself to 3:2? Anonymous
I've started shooting for about a year and the crop tool from my RAW processor is pretty much permanently set to 3:2.

I use that ratio because it's pretty much a standard size ratio for display and print and also because my camera takes photos in that ratio.

Yeah, yeah I know there's square format film. I'm displaying photos in galleries and everything I have right now is in 3:2 in landscape or portrait. Sometimes, but rarely, I find that I could get a better crop if I move away from 3:2 but then I wind up with one random photo that's a completely different ratio.

So I don't know, do I make exceptions like that when a different crop would look better or do I force myself to use 3:2?
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>> Anonymous
Whatever floats your boat.

Most of my pictures are in 4:3 because that's how the camera takes them and that's how I frame them.
>> Anonymous
My laptop moniter is 5:4 (10x8), and when I dock it, my desktop monitor is 16:9.

I shoot 3:2 and allow for 5:4 bleed, and that pretty much covers everything inbetween.
>> Anonymous
I usually process to 3:2 because...
A: It's what my camera does by default
B: It's probably the most common printing ratio, and I'm too lazy to get custom frames.
>> Anonymous
The only thing the OP's picture tells me is that the building, from that perspective, looks like a giant dong.
>> Anonymous
Welcome to editing. IMO is if it's being presented as one individual work, whatever works best for it, if it's being presented as part of a collective body (say, a photo essay) whatever fits best for the whole. Makes sense to me.
>> Anonymous
Keep to 3:2
>>291929is a boring photo.
Keeping to 3:2 will force you to pay more attention to getting the photo right in the camera. Compose your shots before not after.
>> Anonymous
>>292103

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