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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 799557" data-attributes="member: 48483">Just a few ideas from my own experiences. I like to shoot a little wide and have room to do a crop. I think that working with Raw files kind of gives me the mindset similarly to thinking about working with print film. I can use the enlarger in the darkroom to finalize the composition. In modern thinking, the crop tool in RawTherapee or Lightroom fine-tunes the composition. The original Raw files and image profile file are saved preserved, so going back to do a re-crop for a new aspect ratio is trivial.I like to display 3:2, same as the original camera image. But I change that for when I print to match the output size. Most recent example for me was composing my 2023 calendar. I set the image ratio as 11:14 because the large-format calendars I was printer was 11x14 inches. I actually had a pool of 30 images copied into calendar work folder and gave the 11:14 crop to each. Just evaluating after that helped me trim out some excess photos to get down to the 13 I would use.When we talk about being underexposed or overexposed, it is far better to be underexposed as you can adjust that brighter in post and not have lost detail. Shooting wider similarly allows you flexibility in composition. You can cut smaller, but gluing together a wider image is a total bear of a job.</blockquote>