>>4116097>But here, it would have saved the day if it were in landscape>>4116410In both cases, I completely disagree. The water in a V shape, the break of the wave around the person, the person makes it harmonious for me on the horizontal axis in a central framing. There I welcome calm and order, balance, neither weight nor attention, no import hence no major lines.
On the vertical, there is tension and the motif, right where the supposedly again calm foreground spills into the roaring water with the silhouette of the person. The sky above makes a compromise between variety and harmony and in a sense fights with the person for attention, bringing another interesting facet to the person's outlook. Still, with a framing that gives a too large a proportion to the sky, highlights are eventually found in the corners instead of vignette, the sky even fights against the horizontally centered, calm perspective. So I would keep the sky framed short.
An extended foreground, on the other hand, contributes to a calming mood, delays the viewer's attention to find the person only indirectly, creates an "aha" moment and thus more sophistication, gives more weight to exciter as the scene balances yet another tick to a calm mood, all in all creating a deeper feeling of longing
>>4116083Imo framings like 3, 2 or
>>4116156 work pretty well, where preferred aspect ratio or personal sense of vastness make a favorite.
