Square Format as Creative Constraint in Street Photography

The square frame is a commitment device. Shooting 1:1 kills your escape routes. You can't reframe a busy scene into a horizontal panorama or lean on leading lines that only work in 3:2. What's left is what you actually had. If you shoot medium format film or crop to square in post, you already know this. If you don't, this piece makes a solid argument for trying a week of square-only shooting to break compositional habits that wide rectangles let you get away with.