This was one picture I submitted for homework last week:
As I mentioned before, the above picture was taken at a dog park. I liked the action of them running and I left space to the left so as to imply motion (to give them a space to run into as it were). And, I thought the foot and snout of the first dog, combined with the ears of the second dog "implied" a diagonal. But our teacher and other students helps me to see what might have made a better picture:
In the above picture, I cropped it so that the left dogs foot begins the diagonal in the bottom left corner and then you follow his snout up to the second dogs ears. As well, I lightened up the picture. He also mentioned that it would be best to have the right dog in full view. His said by doing the picture as I did above it not just satisfies the idea of diagonals but also helps with another composition technique of filling the frame.
Which one do you prefer?
I think the first picture, allowing space on the left, creates the impression of motion better than the second picture.
ReplyDeleteThis is not to say the second picture isn't more pleasing. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks honey, I appreciate your feedback! I suppose it's a personal preference. I tend to like the space for what it communicates, but I agree that maybe the zoomed in version may be more pleasing. I guess it depends upon what the person is trying to communicate and for what reason.
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