P&P: Exercise 21: Making figures anonymous

Facing away, Small

When the place is the principal subject, but when it will look better inhabited, it is often useful

to find ways of reducing the visual attention that a person or a face tends to command.

The point here is to use people as accents, not as subjects, and thus techniques that make them less individual, and more anonymous, are appropriate.  Several techniques are suggested, including reduced size, facing away or partly hidden, blurred, or in silhouette. 

As with the previous exercises, these images were taken at Dubai Mall.  The one above depicts the shop front of a bakery and uses figures to add some visual interest.  The female foreground faces away, the make at right is small.  

Silhouette, Small

This image is about shape and line and uses a small, silhouetted figure to demonstrate scale.

Small

Similarly, this one depicts a large space using small figures to demonstrate function.  

Silhouette

I was excited to find this gentleman and took at least a dozen images, but after seeing them I'm not so sure they depict a space so much as a figure.  Could be used for marketing the brand.  

Motion Blur

As with the image above, this shows off space less well, but does a good job of highlighting the text and would make a good advertising image (which could presumably be used without permission from the subjects). 

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