Nektario K wrote:
ya ok....but I can't do that for 50 prints now can I? Is that what you're saying...do this to all my ordered prints or am I missing something
seriously if you cant figure this out after all the help so far then you need to question why you are even doing this?
Easy - use Aperture, crop any way you like. Present a nice set of proofs or a couple of proof books and you are all set. No sense redoing the laundry. When all else fails - use a few cats as stand-ins.
How about this to answer the original question (I think) on "seeing" and style -
take EVERY photo during the wedding with the *opposite* format (landscape vs portrait, or horizontal vs vertical) than you normally would.
For the shot above, take it as a landscape and through away the 'sides'. I think the OP mentions taking everything horizontal, but this won't quite solve it - for shots you'd normally take as landscape format, like a big group formal, take as a vertical and through away the top and bottom.
Cameras are set up for 4x6 and larger prints as far as the shape of the image. If you need the actual prints to be more square, you have to shoot with that in mind or you will loose part of your vision. We had a wedding that required us to shoot and crop for square prints (5x5) Since I knew this up front, we shot the wedding with that in mind. We did shoot more horizonal than we did vertical. It was a challenge for me since I had not done that before. Yvette
Go to wal-mart and buy:
-1 bag granulated sugar
-1 large Hershey's chocolate bar
Go home, and take out all of your lenses.
Cut the chocolate bar into squares large enough so that when placed on the front element, the 4 edges of the chocolate square all touch the outer rim of the lens
Place lenses in the oven for 1 minute at 350deg. Fahrenheit
Remove chocolate squares from lens (should leave chocolate residue)
pour powdered sugar onto front element so that it is covered
tilt lens over and spill off excess sugar...chocolate should retain a square shaped sugar pattern
now magically take the lens, and put it into photoshop (if you don't know how to do that, clearly you don't know jack)
go to image > adjustments > invert
and then remove all of the black from the front element of the lens (sugar)
There ya go! Thats way cheaper than one of those custom focusing mattes!
or am I missing something