Composition pt2. - frame and arrangement

How can we place importance on certain information within the frame?
- Size and location
- Making the most important object/figure bigger and placing it in the foreground

What are the benefits of overlapping objects in your composition and how is this best achieved?
- Making a 'unified arrangement'
- 'Can help us to express our picture idea more directly'
- Make important objects more prominent
- Best achieved - not just touching, but not too much overlapping. Make it look natural and not too planned, whilst also carefully considering where you place objects.

What role does the frame play in composing visual information within your image?
- use the whole frame
- balance information - not too top or bottom heavy?
- Cropping

Can you be critical of the handout?
- sexist - always mentions person as a 'he'
- bit too simplistic and obvious at times - seems a bit patronising
- It can be wrong, sometimes making a completely balanced  logical composition is boring!

What I have done well:

• The scaling of the objects, and cropping of the person looking at the elephants gives a sense of depth to the image. 
• Human gaze through the binoculars and the diagonal placement of the butterflies produces 2 lines of sight focusing the viewer on the elephants - the focal point of the image. 
• The chosen frame suits the composition of the image. 

What I could have done better:

• I think the way the person is looking into the binoculars is a kind of awkward angle - the elephants would have been better placed slightly more central to the image, and then in turn the person looking at a slightly more turned in angle. I think this would have produced a more balanced composition. 
• The second hill in the image makes the left hand side too heavy and unbalances the composition. I would get rid of this if I did it again.