Re: Fuji Medium Format Digital System is on it's way...
carlitos wrote:
Back in the day I had some discussions with fellow photogs about aspect ratio and film formats. They were all of the mind that if you were shooting 3:2 or 1:1 (square) that that was how your prints should be sized. My argument was that the subject should determine the \"aspect ratio\" of your print. If the subject was long & narrow, the print was long & narrow. A subject as wide as it was tall would be composed in a more squarish format. I couldn\'t and can\'t understand why a photographer would let himself be bound by some artificial and arbitrary format. Of course there are lots of rules that people let themselves be bound by. I kind of felt that if the camera builders allowed the lens to project a round image on the film, it would free up a lot of photographer\'s imaginations.
I\'ve trimmed a lot borders off 8x10 print material to make it narrower, (after projecting a transparency onto it). So I guess my own vision is more 3:2 or 3:1.5. Still I don\'t think photographers should get caught up in trying to fill up a space completely determined by a camera manufacturer. I mean why do you have that telephone pole in the image? Are those clouds really contributing anything to the image. The \"aspect ratio\" depends a lot on what you are trying to say.
I get what you are saying, obviously, because that is what I\'ve always practiced, but I don\'t think it is a binding, limiting factor - quite the opposite, it\'s the best way to up ones game to it\'s highest potential level. If any of the major giants of photography had not bound themselves to one discipline, a narrow focus, if you will, then we would never have heard of them. They would just be some accomplished but faceless commercially oriented photographer. To reach the pinnacle, one needs a narrow focus and fanatic dedication. Cartier Bresson? Had he shot leica, View Cameras, Polaroids, 35mm on sunday and 400 mm for birds on tuesday - There would be NO Bresson worth the remembering. Imho.
Sep 08, 2016 at 04:39 PM
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