I’ve seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?
If that is so why don’t they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops
I use borders only to preserve original 3:2 aspect ratio. At the beginning I was cropping my images for IG and all the time I felt that it’s wrong and I’m forced to do it. I shoot in 3:2, I initially see my frame in 3:2, if I will change aspect ratio I will get a frame that totally differ from my initial idea. What to do if I got perfect frame in 3:2 and there is just no room to crop? Skip posting? :D