I had problems with the weather when planning this exercise. When there’s a North Easterly wind blowing with temperatures just above freezing there are very few people venturing out. On this day the wind had eased slightly so I hoped I’d find someone walking on the pier.
The first image shows a couple walking back from the end of the West pier at Whitby:
Nikon D300s, ISO-200, 18-200 VR Nikkor lens, 82 mm (123 mm EFL), f/18, 1/160 sec.
Although the couple is obviously a major part of the image the eye is still drawn by the curved boards to the lighthouse at the end. This was affected by framing the couple in the far left of the image, leaving the majority of the frame for the pier.
In the second image, the couple had to move nearer to the centre of the frame – there was an idiot with a tripod blocking the side of the boardwalk.
Nikon D300s, ISO-200, 18-200 VR Nikkor lens, 65 mm (97 mm EFL), f/18, 1/160 sec.
The walkers are now much more prominent in the frame – not only because they take up more of the image, but because they are more central. This image is now about the couple rather than the pier. Their expressions tell us that they’re not really enjoying the experience – I think the wind chill must have dropped the temperature to around –35 Deg C !
So it’s clear that composition can make a real difference on what the prominent features of an image will be.
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