So, have you finished your holiday shopping yet? Have you ordered any photo gifts to give to your family and friends? If not, there is still plenty of time! You can avoid all of the Black Friday craziness and order a few photo gifts online. There is also plenty of time for you to investigate Exploring with a Camera: Printed Aspect Ratios as you order those gifts.
Today I want to point you to Deborah’s contribution to our current exploration. For her image, the 4:5 crop (for an 8×10) worked great. My image today doesn’t work so great as an 8×10, too much would be cut off:
That’s why you need to play around with cropping your images, to figure out what aspect ratio works for both your images and your printing options. I would love to see your results, you are welcome to link in below or share them in the Flickr pool. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I’ll be back online Monday!
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What a great post. I just printed a bunch of pictures and could have used that aspect ratio chart. Especially since I tend to try and take pictures so I don’t have to crop. Its fine for my web use, but when I went to print I was in for a bit of a surprise.
I wanted to order a canvas and didn’t want to crop any of the image as it would have looked quite odd. I ended up getting a larger canvas than I might have otherwise, just so I didn’t lose the impact of the original shot.