Part 3: Exercise - Illustrating Visual Space

How does your sense of the image and its meaning change when the figure is smaller than the other elements?

When the figure is so extremely small, it forms a mental juxtaposition because of the attention drawn to it through detail of the small size in relation to the rest of the picture.

NOTE: Which is your favourite composition? Explain why you feel it is most successful. 

The image above is most successful for me. There's a functionality about the order of the picture seeing that the tree forms part of the horizotal picture plane, and the figure may be attempting to access her way across the horizontal plane, with the tree in the middle blocking her way to the church. That's my subjective view so I think there may be room for interpretation if not for me, then at least for the viewer. 

Horizontal and verticals

If all the elements are completely horizontal and vertical in relation to the frame what dynamic is suggested?

Order and conservatism: ordinary

What is your opinion about this image and what sensation does it communicate?

I don't think my elements are unusual enough or placed differently enough to communicate anything mysterious or subjective. I thought it communicated a pedestrian sensibility.

Differing angles

If the elements are at differing angles to each other, and at an angle to the frame, what dynamic is suggested?

Active, more abstract, with less meaning and more chaotic.