The Square Format

[emmawest72]

Hi,

I'm a big lover of the square format and would love to create a thread with all the great square work from the members here. No matter the medium - let the pictures do the talking!


Rêveuse II by WesterW, on Flickr

 

[JimCollum]

 

[PeterA]

lovely opener and nice follow ups
205FCC/Carl Zeis 2/110/CFV11

 

[jotloob]

Good idea for a hopefully long living thread . Long live the square format .

 

[tokengirl]

 

[Jorgen Udvang]

Beautiful photos everyone. I was just sitting here, looking at them and missing the Rolleiflex Baby that I was stupid enough to sell some 10 years ago. Then I thought; haven't I heard something about the GH1 and square formats?

Picked up the camera, found the first menu choice on the first menu, changed it, and voilà, the viewfinder as well as the LCD are square. Sometimes, electronics are just beautiful

 

[bensonga]

Great idea William! Although I'm as happy to shoot rectangular as square, I've shot alot of square formats over the years, mostly a Mamiya TLR and more recently Hasselblad. And sometimes....I just crop to square if it suits me. Here's one from the Yukon (Dawson City) taken with my Hasselblad 501CM.

 

[bensonga]

One more from the Hasselblad (553ELX and 50mm CFi Distagon). Velvia 100 converted to BW in PS3.

 

[jotloob]

Great idea William! Although I'm as happy to shoot rectangular as square, I've shot alot of square formats over the years, mostly a Mamiya TLR and more recently Hasselblad. And sometimes....I just crop to square if it suits me. Here's one from the Yukon (Dawson City) taken with my Hasselblad 501CM.

Thanks Gary for your Yukon Saw Mill image . Love it .
That would be an object for my "architecture to touch" project .

 

[jotloob]

Here an experiment of a "double square" image . Shot on ILFORD DELTA 100

 

[tokengirl]

Here an experiment of a "double square" image . Shot on ILFORD DELTA 100

Very cool.

Challenge for you: make it a quadruple image so that it's square again.

 

[scho]

Also love square format. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Ektar 100.

 

[baudolino]

HAF! this is cropped from 4x3 digital back (I also very much like square format)

 

[emmawest72]

Thanks for all the contributions so far - great work.

 

[bensonga]

Here's one from my archives....mid-90s I think. Mamiya TLR with 80mm lens. Trees in a Cleveland, Ohio park. I've tried various prints from this negative, lightening the trees etc....never could decide which version I like best.

 

[bensonga]

Thanks Gary for your Yukon Saw Mill image . Love it .
That would be an object for my "architecture to touch" project .

Thanks Jurgen. Dawson City is a really neat place. Most of the streets are unpaved and have wooden sidewalks. Not as many tourists in Dawson as in the coastal Alaska and BC towns (where the cruise ships go). There are still quite a few older wooden buildings like this one standing. Interesting history in that area too (gold mining etc).

By the way....I love the colors, textures and shapes in the image you posted above!

Gary

 

[tokengirl]

HAF! this is cropped from 4x3 digital back (I also very much like square format)

That is one handsome Weimy!!!

Jasmine thinks he's cute.

iPhone/Hipstamatic

 

[bensonga]

Very good looking dogs! Here's my Cairn terrier, Bonnie.
Taken with a Hasselblad 501CM.

 

[usathyan]

Fantastic set of images...Square is my favorite format as well!
Here is one of my most recent...shot on GF1 & cropped.

 

[emmawest72]

Infinity