Yep, I never liked 3:2 vertical compositions. In fact I was just shooting a series of winter still-lifes today "wet leaves" in my studio and every single one as it was coming up in my software is cropped 4:3 by default
For the first time I bought the roll of paper. It’s 17” x 75’. I only needed to cut the length. That was a little project but set it up on dining table and it worked. Cut 25 sheets and have some paper left. It fits into plastic sleeves from Blick to save till I print.
Important issue to address. Right now printing for an exhibit I had both aspect ratios. My current solution printing on 17x24 inch (44x56cm) is to print the ratio with enough border so as not to use mat board. Since Moab Entrada Cold Press is so fantastic the paper serves as a mat. The photos look appropriate to the image and size. It's tricky because the paper is larger than needed but it fits the LR size without customizing.
Thanks I will explore a using 4x5 ratio for vertical 2x3 images.
Its comforting to know that I you have an issue, I'm not alone in feeling "dizzy" with figuring it out.
Would love to see what you come up with. In many cases with papers such as Entrada Coldpress that have such a lovely texture we don't use glass! Are you using A2 paper? I'm not recognizing the size you referenced exactly?
This comes at a great time for me... I'm selecting images for an exhibition and this article helps me as I contemplate the optionas available for the chosen prints.I've found myself deselecting a number of images because their aspect ratio chosen during editing makes it difficut to include them within a consistent frame size. For exaqample some of my panorama landscapes, or squiare format images just don't sit well within a 16x20 frame. One comment here suggested that using film will help elimkinate the issue of varfing aspect ratios - I do use film in 5x7, 4x5 and 6x6 aspect ratios, so for me, film is not a problem solver.
Well, not exactly... but I do feel you, personally 6x6 is probably my favorite to shoot and compose in with none of that pesky flipping the camera around. Alas, it has become FAR more expensive than I can do with any regularity.
Here's my solution to this problem......ignore aspect ratios of your photos/crop as necessary. Your final image should include only what portion of the original capture that is "useful" to getting the best looking print.
Absolutely, but then again in many cases one is "forced" into an aspect ratio to display that image on as mentioned... which doesn't necessarily "match" that of the image itself which can be tricky from a design point of view.
The Lr Print module is a good way to layout the image on the paper. I was just showing a colleague how to use the Cell Size and Margins to do this.
Vertical 3x2 never "feels" right to me.
Yep, I never liked 3:2 vertical compositions. In fact I was just shooting a series of winter still-lifes today "wet leaves" in my studio and every single one as it was coming up in my software is cropped 4:3 by default
For the first time I bought the roll of paper. It’s 17” x 75’. I only needed to cut the length. That was a little project but set it up on dining table and it worked. Cut 25 sheets and have some paper left. It fits into plastic sleeves from Blick to save till I print.
Important issue to address. Right now printing for an exhibit I had both aspect ratios. My current solution printing on 17x24 inch (44x56cm) is to print the ratio with enough border so as not to use mat board. Since Moab Entrada Cold Press is so fantastic the paper serves as a mat. The photos look appropriate to the image and size. It's tricky because the paper is larger than needed but it fits the LR size without customizing.
Thanks I will explore a using 4x5 ratio for vertical 2x3 images.
Its comforting to know that I you have an issue, I'm not alone in feeling "dizzy" with figuring it out.
Would love to see what you come up with. In many cases with papers such as Entrada Coldpress that have such a lovely texture we don't use glass! Are you using A2 paper? I'm not recognizing the size you referenced exactly?
This comes at a great time for me... I'm selecting images for an exhibition and this article helps me as I contemplate the optionas available for the chosen prints.I've found myself deselecting a number of images because their aspect ratio chosen during editing makes it difficut to include them within a consistent frame size. For exaqample some of my panorama landscapes, or squiare format images just don't sit well within a 16x20 frame. One comment here suggested that using film will help elimkinate the issue of varfing aspect ratios - I do use film in 5x7, 4x5 and 6x6 aspect ratios, so for me, film is not a problem solver.
Problem solved, keep using film!
Well, not exactly... but I do feel you, personally 6x6 is probably my favorite to shoot and compose in with none of that pesky flipping the camera around. Alas, it has become FAR more expensive than I can do with any regularity.
Here's my solution to this problem......ignore aspect ratios of your photos/crop as necessary. Your final image should include only what portion of the original capture that is "useful" to getting the best looking print.
Absolutely, but then again in many cases one is "forced" into an aspect ratio to display that image on as mentioned... which doesn't necessarily "match" that of the image itself which can be tricky from a design point of view.