Exercise Fitting the frame to the subject

In this exercise I am to experiment with the subject occupying different areas of the frame. I opted for a nice little boat anchored in the River Wye at Tintern, one of my favourite local beauty spots for photo shoots.

Photo 1

This is a general quick shot taken without too much thought, it pictures the boat nicely but the background of the river is not particularly interesting

 



 Photo 2

I decided to tilt the camera to get the whole boat in (including the buoy) as big as possible to almost fill the entire frame. I feel this shot works quite well and the non-level shot doesn't really detract and in fact adds to the geometry of the boat in a positive way.

 

 Photo 3

This close in takes most of the subject to the edge of the frame which is great for detail and by keeping some of the edges (which wasn't in the brief) retains the fact that it is a boat. I couldn't zoom in any further due to the limits of focal length on my zoom lens anyway as it was impossible to walk on the water! The technical answer would have been a more powerful zoom but the photo is effective anyway

 

 Photo 4

This was taken with the subject occupying approx a 6th of the frame to see the boat in it's rather beautiful surroundings. I have done two versions of this picture in Portrait and Landscape as they both work effectively. I particularly like the boats shadow on the water and the bridge in the distance on 4a and I like the dynamic flow in 4b due to the curve in the river. Critically I feel like both of these shots have worked but it would have been nice to have taken them with more atmospheric lighting either early morning or late evening as the overhead sunlight makes the photo's a little flat.

 

 Photo 4b