Aspect Ratios. This
isn’t a particularly deep or sophisticated byte of knowledge, but I never
really sat down to learn it, resulting in some irritation when I enlarged
photos only to find the printer has cropped the image, making it
unbalanced. If you’re shooting with a
DSLR or point-and-shoot, your aspect ratio is 2x3. That’s how your sensor captures the
image. Thus your standard 4x6 print
always looks right. If you don’t crop
the image in your post processing, this means you should enlarge your prints to
the following sizes:
8x12
10x15
16x24
20x30
One thing to remember is that if you’re taking a photo for
someone else (a client), and they want to enlarge it, they’re most likely to
make it an 8x10. For no good reason,
that’s a standard size for photo frames.
So you have a choice: either shoot with extra room on the width of the
photo, or educate them on how to buy the right frame.
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