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In case you missed this, Digital Photography Review recently posted a good basic introduction to square format photography. It gives a brief history of the format as it relates to photography, as well as some good image composition theory. It’s a very camera-neutral read and applies to pretty much any device capturing square-format photography.

With more iPhone users discovering artistic photography through square format apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic, this is a good read to get a quick background and some good tips on shooting better square format. The rules of composition for rectangular formats don’t always apply to square format photography.

“Having a single subject is even more important in a square format than in a rectangular one. Don’t try to split the viewer’s attention. Including some background for context is okay, and may even be important, but make sure that the background stays in the background.”

Click here to read “Square Format: not so weird” by Doug Pardee on dpreview.com.

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misskiwi’s Squara photo app is another very good square format app that integrates nicely with Instagram, but also makes a great shooter on its own. Squara is on sale now for a limited time for only $0.99 — a savings of $1.00.

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Magic Hour – Camera & Unlimited Filter
Version reviewed: 1.3.4
Price: $1.99, on sale through January 15 for $0.99

Bottom Line: I Like it. Both easy to use and powerful, Magic Hour should be great for a wide range of users.

iPhone photo app Magic Hour – Camera & Unlimited Filter by Kiwiple is on sale now for only $0.99 — that’s a savings of $1.00. This sale is for a limited time only — through January 15 — so grab it now.

We’ve never had a close look at Magic Hour here on LoFi. I thought this would be a good time to have a closer look at this fun, yet powerful photo app.

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Squaready is the excellent free, easy-to-use app to easily make square crops and prep your photos for Instagram and other apps. It also adds a more attractive white border around the edge of an image so your portrait and landscape images view better when they show up in your Instagram photostream. I’ve previously reviewed the app here.

The app has finally been updated to support the full 2448×2448 pixel square resolution of iPhone 4S photos. Click past the jump for more on this update. >>>

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Social photo app Instagram is popular and easy to use, but its cropping and centering could be improved and trying to post wide or tall photos from the app adds unsightly black bars to your Instagrams.

Squaready is a free, easy-to-use app to easily make square crops and prep your photos for Instagram and other apps. It also adds a more attractive white border around the edge of an image so your portrait and landscape images view better when they show up in your Instagram photostream.

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qbro is a full-featured square format photo app with a pretty good set of tools. It’s got separate focus and exposure, white balance lock, zoom, self-timer, Big Button full-screen shutter release, and many other features. We’ve been covering it often here. Recent updates have made the app really good.

The new qbro version 3.3.0 update is another in a long line of good updates for this app.

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If you like shooting square frame, definitely check out Cameramatic by youthhr. It’s an excellent analog, retro, square frame format photo app with a ton of film, frame, and other analog effects, all easily interchangeable. Cameramatic has a powerful built-in effects editor that allows you to create your presets. It also lets you import images from your photo library.

Cameramatic recently got another great new update. We’ve got some promo codes to give away. Click past the jump to find out how to win one.

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Cameramatic's new Retropop filter with new Rough 01 frame

I really like Cameramatic by youthhr. It’s a retro-style square format app that’s often overshadowed by other, more high-profile apps, but it’s got a great set of filters as well as great in-app customizability that allows you to create your own filters. Cool!

The new 1.2.3 update was just released. Although it’s a 1.x.x update, it’s more than just a maintenance or bug fix update. It has new filters and features.

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Many iPhoneographers are creating works that when viewed by the public, the response is often “I can’t believe this was done on a iPhone.” I have been witness to this reaction many times, as I’m sure many of you have as well.

iPhoneography is now finding its way into more mainstream photographic publications. A recent issue of Square Magazine, the French/English square frame format magazine has excellent showcases from Clay Lipsky, Quinn Jacobson, Stephen Gill and others. Also featured in Square Magazine 2.1 is Amo Passicos… Miss Amo and Her iPhone.

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For square format apps, try shooting sideways. Red square added in.

For shooting square format images, here’s a quick tip on how to shoot the photo to help you compose a better image in the viewfinder that will work great when cropping it square.

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