Kingston has recently gotten another ship to reside at the Great Lakes Museum here in Kingston. I was playing around with my new camera awhile back and made an image of the ship but I wasn’t happy with my shot so made another trip down in similar conditions to perfect the shot. I love this one! It’s a different look than most others would do, but that’s what it’s all about, being different.
Is Aspect Ratio Important?
For a long time when I started processing photographs I was reluctant to alter the aspect ratio of an image. My reasoning was to do with printing and framing rather than composition. I figured that there were all these standard sizes of frames available and you had to stay within those dimensions. Granted, custom framing and matt cutting is an added expense, but not every photograph fits the norm. We want our photograph to be displayed in it’s best form so I began to re-think my practices.
The image below has all of it’s information grouped together in a strip that was on the bottom of the frame while the sky was full of nothing but heavy fog. In this case, there was no reason to leave the sky there. In this case, changing the aspect ratio to a more panoramic crop made more sense. The rule of thumb for composition is if it isn’t helping the image, it is hurting it so the boring sky had to go.
Peaceful Morning