Exercise 22: Balancing figure and space

This exercise focused on balancing the focus in any one picture situation.  I had to produce two images of the same scene where the balance varies from person to setting.

In the first image the people are smaller and the done of St Paul's bigger.  The scale is pretty much as we would expect it to be.

 In the second image the balance shifts with the importance and focus given to the people in the image rather than the dome.  The dome is still in the distance and is smaller.

It is interesting to look at the balance in the these shots and how it alters the meaning.  In the first image the building takes prominance.  The people are just there as an anonymous group walking over the bridge.

The second image looks at the people walking over the bridge on their way to St Paul's.  We can see more of the people who they are what they are wearing etc.