6 Tips For Composing 6x6 Format (Square Crop)
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this video I give you 6 of my own tips for composing your images when shooting 6x6 format.
I also share some tips from a few other photographers who regularly shoot square crop and show you a few of their images.
If you want to see more of the other photographers work please check them out below and give them a follow!
Mark Forbes - / _markforbes_
Ovi - / focusingfilm
Daniel Regner - / danielregner
Cory Marr - / therealcorymarr
Liam Cartledge - / liam.foto
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VIDEO TIME STAMPS:
Intro - 0:00
Tips from other photographers - 1:44
My tips for composing 6x6 - 9:40
Channel update - 14:12
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Hey Tom, thanks for the shout out. I just got sent the link for this today and I just wanted to let you know that it's awesome that you mentioned me. Really motivates me to continue shooting!
Tom - I purchased a Mamiya 6x6 in search of a different perspective than 35mm or rectangular composition. After purchasing I watched a number of youtube videos on composing an image in this format, however this video really stuck with me. The insight provided by your call and response with other photographers, has influenced how I see things, especially when composing a shot or shooting in general.
Love what you're doing and thank you for this again!
Thank you! It’s hip to be square!
I can't believe you just ignore us 4x4 127 rollfilm users...all three of us. Just kidding. I enjoyed the video and the tips/advice gave me some things to consider. While I shoot some 120 in 6x6, I shoot a lot more 127 in 4x4. Everything in the video seems just as valid to me. Cheers
Thanks Tom, packed with tips, yet clear and concise. Must practise and internalise the tips. I need to stop,.. look around and avoid a 19th nervous breakdown! As other commenter has suggested, apart from taking out my recently-purchased Yashica, I'll set my Fuji's view to 1:1 on occasion.
Thx for the great tips!
Absolutely blown away!
I started using a 500 C/M since the late seventies. Just because it is a 6x6, I didn't always compose images in 6x6 but cropped to portrait or landscape. Hence, I DIY grids on my VF screen using artist transparent tapes. Not to mention one of the advantages of using a 6x6 is no need to rotate the camera for portrait or landscape composition.
love to see your DIY grid!
Big fan of Mark Forbes! Recently got into 6x6 myself, so this is great timing haha
Amazing dude. Look forward to seeing some 6x6 shots from you!
Handy tips... I've got a C330 on the way to experiment with so this was useful hearing various different thoughts.
Excellent tips … ta very much! I’ve recently embraced the square format for my B&W landscapes using the Fuji X100V. The layers technique is really powerful rendering an immersive, almost 3D experience … amazing. Now I think I should try shooting with 1:1 in the viewfinder instead of cropping afterward. At least if I don’t get it right straight out of the camera, there’s still the raw 3:2 to work with. Great video … looking forward to checking out more of your content.
Really cool concept for a helpful video. Thanks for this! Very cool way to showcase others as well.
This video just made me go & review my own work on 6x6 & I throw EVERYTHING in the middle of the frame. Timely video & something to think about haha.
I’m the same tbh. Mark’s tip for not centring the subject has really made me think about my compositions more.
Just picked up a medium format TLR, and this video definitely answered a few questions I had about composition in a square format. Thanks, my dude!
You’re welcome dude, glad it helped!
Very educational and excellent tips!
Idk why I was never subscribed. Love your videos. This is no exception, just got my first TLR and this will help immensely. Thanks Tom!
No worries man glad it could help! TLR’s are so fun to shoot with.
And exactly today, my yashica mat is coming back from repair. I really missed that ground glass maneuvers.
Thanks for the video Tom!
No worries, enjoy shooting!
Thanks for the interesting video... this is something that I am learning to do but for concept art.
Great idea to interact with those IG-photographers and show their tips. Thank you very much!
Thanks for watching. I enjoyed getting the other photographers opinions and learnt a bit myself from the process of making this video.
great! thank you!!!
Tom, Great Video! Love your tips on Square Composition. I Shot with a Hasselblad for over 30 years, this video has motivated me to go out and shoot
square again. I will be using my Nikon Z6 set to 1:1 format, with the LCD panel parallel to the ground. This will allow me to view the image in live view at waste level.
Tom, Thanks again for the Tips and Inspiration.
So glad it inspired you to get out and shoot. That’s all I ever want to achieve from my videos
An excellent well thought out video…this will be most helpful on my 6x6 photographic journey. Thank you so much. 👏
Thanks! Hope it helps
Thanks for this. I just inherited a Yashica D tlr camera so this helps a lot.
Thank you for this video. Just got a Rolleicord 3 and it's a good shift from 6x7. Love the content and keep up the good work.
Thanks man!
Great idea for a video v well executed……thank you……..about to head out with my new old rolleiflex bearing all your tips in mind
just awesome.....
Great tips!
Awesome 👏 thanks for sharing your imput.
I am just want to get into squer format to try out myself in somethig new! Thanks for sharing! Keep up the good job!
Thanks!
Thank you for a good tips, Tom :)
Hi Tom, Im really enjoying your posts, really thought provoking stuff.
Thank you 🙏🏻
As much as I hate square format, it's amazing that I actually used it
for several years for wedding photography. You of course will generally always crop for a rectangular print which means wasted space. I think I'd would have much rather preferred a 6x7 format instead.
best tutorial I've seen!!! thank you!!
Glad it helped!
I just discovered your channel and think you are creating great content. Keep it up!
Thank you!
Such an excellent video, Tom! Thank you! A Kiev 60 just fell into my hands... a friend of a friend just gave it to me (or perhaps heaven just arranged a drop my way). Just dropped my first roll, so we'll see if it works!
Nice, have fun!
I liked this video 6 times
Thanks, Tom. This helps a lot!
That’s what I like to hear! 👍🏻
One of the best videos I have seen in a while. Great content and a great pointers for the next time I'm in the field!
Thank man! Just realised I follow you on insta. Your Mamiya 6 shots are ace!
@@Tom-Humble Thanks so much! It's funny you say that, because I love your instagram and just discovered your RUclips channel. I'm going to have a lot of fun this week going through your back catalog. Keep up the great work!
Thanks dude!
I've been thinking square for several years now. I found that going back over my many rectangular photos, quite a few were easily converted to square because the rectangular photos had unnecessary elements. Photography is about eliminating the unnecessary whereas painting is about adding the necessary.
Wow, very good choice of photos at the beginning!
Thanks!
Great video Tom!
Thanks!
Very great tips Tom. It helps using my Yashica Mat 124 G as its best. Subscribed.
Thanks man!
gonna try this out om my olympus , though it is a micro43 format haha . Great video man !!
Thanks man.
Fantastic video!
Thanks!
Man, this must be fate, literally. I got into Polaroid photography this summer and I am looking for tipps, tricks and hints to grow and get better and just shoot better photos. My main issues are the square format indeed, and the very limited settings of a Polaroids camera. So your video is exactly what I was looking for and you uploaded it just today! How funny is this!? :D I wish you had more videos like this one here, because it is so very helpful for me, thanks a ton! Great job! Thanks! =)
That’s amazing man, so glad it helped! Plenty more like this in the pipeline 👍🏻
Just made me change to 6x6 great video
Thanks! I’m a sucker for 6x6 format
Never done before but just felt an urge to it and watched your video and I got the confirmation.
Also I will mix it with macro 🤞
Shoot first, trim later, or like me, don't. I print in the darkroom on 10x8 inch paper. I trim a piece off to use as a test exposure strip.
I use a 1957 Yashica Mat with a 75mm 3.5 Lumaxar lens. Tri x and Rodinal 1 to 50.
Schneider Componar S 100mm f5. 6 lens on a 1950s Gnome condenser enlarger. Old school my man, still doing it at the age of 75.
Great Video my friend.
I am in Stroud UK, would be good to meet up.
I use a crop sensor camera (nikon d3100) so its a rectangular shape sensor and i wanna replicate the 6x6 medium format camera and its 65mm lens. Would cropping my images into square change my photo's focal lengths?
No it won’t change the focal length
In your opinion, what is the best pet focal length to work in square format? In 35mm eq. 28mm, 35/40mm or 50mm?
I prefer the 35/40mm focal length but it’s all personal preference
It is funny I have shot medium format for decades with my Mamiya RB67 in my portrait studio. Retired and gave the Mamiya to a student. Bought a Hasselblad 503 and thought I would be leaving enough room on the negative to crop the typical 8x10 format I was so used to. Now i tend to compose in tighter and print square .Don't know why the change it just happened that way after shooting the 6x6 negatives.
There’s just something about shooting and viewing 6x6 format images that I can’t explain. For me it feels nostalgic but creative at the same time. It also takes away the distraction of whether or not to shoot portrait or landscape orientation.
@@Tom-Humble Same here and it caught me by surprise.
awesome video, just picked up a 500cm
Great little camera. Thanks.
I have yashica d..best film?
FP4
I shoot 6x6 in medium format, however, for landscapes, I find the landscape to be more desirable for print when they are close in aspect ratio to 35mm.. It seems cropping a 6x6 to this aspect ratio creates a 6x4.5 image (645). I am actually Looking to move into 6x7, it’s better for landscape in my opinion.
I’ve recently started shooting a lot more 6x7 and agree it works better for landscapes. Still love a square image though.
Enjoyed this, well done. (the background music is very repetitive)
Thanks for tips! but I heard that rule of thirds is not good for square format.
All rules are meant to be broken
Great tips, thanks 😊 Love using my Hasselblad and Yashica
MrBlake thanks! Would love try a hassy
Trying this with x100
Nice. Be interested to see some results
I would say that the most important tip is to really, and I mean really look at your scene before deciding to take a photo. Why do I say this? Because most square (film) format cameras have a horizontally inverted image on the ground glass.
It is just way too easy to get caught up dialling in settings and staring into the ground glass when in reality you should be spending less time looking at the camera and more time just looking up.
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The easiest and cheapest way to test out square format is to set your smartphone camera to 1:1
6x6 is kind of cheating.