For this exercise I have to experiment with how much space the subject takes up in the frame of the viewfinder.
Image 1: 1/50s f8 ISO 100 29mm
Image 1 was to be taken of a subject where it was visible in the entire viewfinder and taken without too much thought. This was obviously a advertising board for a art & craft shop. I took this shot from a lowered position but relatively quickly and with the above settings for exposure.
Image 2: 1/80s f8 ISO 100 24mm
Image 2 was to be taken with more thought and as tight a fit to the frame as possible. I moved straight on to the subject and with the widest focal length of this lens managed to fit the board into the frame.
Image 3: 1/400s f2.8 ISO 100 24mm
Image 3 had a requirement to only be a part of the image, so here I decided to take this from an angle looking across the board showing the necessary lettering to still be able to identify it. I also used a wide aperture to focus in on the red star and lettering to get the viewers attention of what the subject is and allow the eye to drift from this to then explore the remaining words and the frame of the board.
Image 4: 1/640s f2.8 ISO 100 24mm
Image 4 had to have the subject as only a quarter or less of the frame and be within a composition that stresses its surroundings. I moved back from the subject and somewhere between the angle of image 1 and image 2 I found what I felt was the best composition to stress its place in the surroundings. Again staying with the wide aperture of image 3 I aimed to throw the background out of focus but leaving it clear enough to show the setting in which the board stands. A vignette preset in lightroom also helped images 2,3 & 4 emphasise the setting and subject.
Finally I had to make some different crops of my original image and see what alternatives I could have come up with.
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 5 is where I cropped to an almost 6x4 frame but feel there is something missing above the board that almost gives the same impression of a head being cut off in a portrait. Image 6 is a square crop and with a little insight into the foreground pavement and some give above the board it feels a lot more pleasing acceptable to the eye. Image 7 is fairly extreme although it gives both a comfortable position of the board in the frame and enough of the shop doorway to help place the board in its surroundings without being too distracting. A wider aperture could have helped to focus in on the board but in this original shot I had went for an average f8 setting.
Overall if I was to choose a shot/crop that works best at showing the subject in its surroundings but keeping the viewers eye on itself and the information it displays I would have to go for image 4 where the aperture and composition make the necessary difference to the original quickly taken shot.
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