Luminous Landscape have a great article on how to free yourself from the tyranny of the standard digital image aspect ratios, and creatively use cropping to improve your photos.

“When looking at a new raw file of my own the first thing I ask myself is that question – What is this image about, and what do I want it to say about the subject? Only when I have a satisfactory answer to this can I proceed to crop and otherwise interpret the image. When this is in hand I then find it easy to arrive at a cropping, because as with Michelangelo’s David, I simply remove everything that isn’t relevant to my conceptualization.”

Website: Luminous Landscape - Understanding Aspect Ratios and The Art of Cropping

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