Living in the middle of Jakarta does not really five me very good options for this so I had to manufacture my subject and so I used some of the flowers from the garden.
Picture 1: This image certainly puts the subject right in your line of sight. However as this is not a picture detailing symmetry or patterns, it seems that it is a little boring, and doesn't require the viewer to do anything. It is easy to look quickly and dismiss it.
Picture 2: In this one, I moved it slightly off centre. Here there is now a question that the viewer can ask. Why is the subject not in the centre?
Picture 3: Here I decided to try moving it off centre in a different direction to see if it created a different feeling than Pic 2. Personally, I feel that it doesn't change the relationship with the background.
Picture 4: This is my preferred positioning. The photo feels balanced even though there is a large area of empty space. I have used this positioning before when cropping one of my images from safari in Tanzania in 2007.
Little Bee Eater - Tanzania 2007
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