Exercise: Balancing Figure and Space.

Exercise: Balancing Figure with space.

For this exercise I am producing two pairs of pictures.  The first pair were for the People Unaware section.   The first is as taken and has the subject firmly in the centre. There no balance to the picture and very little make one take a second look.  In the second I cropped out all the unwanted details and balanced the fishmonger against his display.  The picture now has interest and balance.

The next pair are pictures of the same scene but with different framing.  They were taken for the Single Figure Small exercise.  In the first the woman is in the centre of the picture and has no dynamic presence.  She is easily seen but there is no interest.  There is no balance to the picture and the large white area adds nothing to the composition.

In the second, produced for the exercise mentioned, I excluded most of the white area to the left and included more of the building to the right.  This area has nice subdued detailing and leads the eye away from the single small figure.  As I said in the other exercise I left in a little of the white area as a small distraction.  By pushing the woman over to the left of the picture her small presence is balanced against the space to the right.