Digital BW, The Print

I've always tended to shoot wide, rather than close crop in the finder. When I do square, for example, I tend to close crop in the finder. A good deal of my shooting is about moments ( timing ) rather than composing a shot.

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>I personally like the 3x2 format proportions.  I generally frame "in
>camera" so cropping can sometimes be difficult.  
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>Having said that, the "standard" formats are mostly different proportions.
> 5x7 is close to the camera format (5x7.5), but some of the others aren't
>even close, and unfortunately, they all have different proportions.  8x10
>lops off 2" from the camera format (8x12).  Of course, 4x5 and 16x20 have
>the same proportions as 8x10.  11x14 lops off 1.5" (11x16.5 camera
>format).  I think all these sizes just sort of came about without any
>thought and we are stuck with these legacy sizes.  
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>It is a constant PITA when I sell custom prints to people.  Every time, I
>have to spell out the fact that some images don't crop well to 8x10 or
>11x14, etc, and other images do lend themselves to cropping.  I prefer to
>frame in camera and will probably continue to do so for most of my
>photography.  When I KNOW a job needs to be a standard size, I just leave
>plenty of room for cropping.
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>I print most of my images using 2x3 proportions, since I mat them before
>framing anyway.  Since I don't have things hanging in galleries, this may
>not apply to that discussion.  
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>Lou
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