galleries:
alan brown
peter clark
tanya lowe
clive rowley
jason walkertalking about:
alan brown
peter clark
tanya lowe
clive rowley
jason walkervideos - moving
slideshows:
justmono
the movie (!)justmono 2
images from the first justmono site 2003-2009copyright exists on
all photographs on
justmono.com...................
justmono
clive rowley - the square imageI was brought up on the square format: my parents had a Kodak Brownie
TLR taking square images on a 127 film, and I used that camera as a child.
In 1958, when I was 12, I saved up for my own camera, and bought a
Bilora Bella 66 which could take 12 6cm square (2 1/4 inch) images on a
120 film.
I did not possess a 35mm camera until I was 24 when I bought a second hand
Voigtlander Vito CLR Rangefinder with a fixed 50mm lens. From 34 onwards
I had SLRs, first Canon and then Nikon and more recently have used digital
SLRs from Nikon.But even though I have, since 1970, used cameras with rectangular viewfinders
producing rectangular images, I have sometimes cropped to square images
Thankfully I now have 120 (medium format) cameras which take twelve 6cm
square images including 2 Rolleiflexes and a Hasselblad which took the
photographs from which the 2 Brighton shots on my gallery were made.But I do naturally think of a square crop when using a rectangular viewfinder,
or, I often see the 'square' crop later when studying the frame.
The challenge of composing for and producing square images lives on!Clive Rowley 2009
