SQUARE CROPPING

I tend to go back and forth on square cropping pictures. Sometimes it works really well and other times it cuts out too much. They are for certainly harder to get framed because finding square frames at anything over an 8x8 is difficult in most Stores. Michael's craft store often has frames on sale and is one of the only consistent places we have found square frames. Square framing picture projects work really well when you are doing a series of pictures and want to hang them all up in a row or in other shapes. The last set of square frames we bought were not made for pictures really. They were made for scrapbook pages and they turned out really well. In the end, let the picture dictate if and how you crop it. Some pictures to me just feel square and that is the way I make them. Sometimes it is just and accident. In the case of the picture above, I took the picture crooked and as I was trying to find a suitable crop. I was also trying to focus the picture on the people on the right, my friends. It felt too crowded. I then added a warming filter and the end result turned out quite pleasing.