Cropped Pictures for Final Selection

These are my final selection of six pictures, edited and cropped to the shape I want them at. They are presented above in the order they will appear in my portfolio as well as in the context of the article.

The reasons for my choices are a mixture of wanting the best looking pictures in a photographic sense and also that most suit my criteria of, mostly, young people who continue to be interested in vinyl records as a medium for listening to music and visiting record shops/fairs for the purpose of purchasing them.

Lexington Record Fair Camden 7th May

For this final shoot, at the Lexington Record Fair in Camden, I used my Canon 5D mk1 with a Minolta 4000 AF shoe mount flash that was aimed direct at my subject. Consistently with my previous shots, I used an aperture of 2.5. However on this shoot, I forgot about obtaining a 28mm lens and instead used my 50mm 1.8.

After it was suggested in a critiquing session, I have decided to crop all my final images into square to reflect the shape of the records. This is also compatible with my idea of creating the pictures for a digital medium such as a website, which often use pictures cropped to untypical rectangles or square - particularly when it is in a long column of a table, sandwiched between text, in the layout. (See above for example from here.)