VERTICAL or HORIZONTAL
Vertical retained the focus to the story. Horizontal provided the contrast and context. Stone boundary wall connected both.
what's your opinion? Vertical or Horizontal. and any other CC.
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I'm torn about which is preferable, Vijay. They are both fine images, with the focus & context respectively as you say. For me, the focus in the vertical gives it an edge in that respect, while the second is a fractionally more harmonious composition - but as in music, sometimes dissonance works, like that highly visible figure, almost out of the frame. I like the way the overhead cable points to him.
Often for me in music, subtle dissonance within generally pleasing harmony is the most powerful. Can't say I feel as if I can achieve that in my photography. Hard enough to get harmony, and all too easy to get plenty of ugly dissonance!
If you were compiling an exhibition or a book, you could use either depending on which complemented other images in the selection.
Thanks, Chris.