Exercise 14c: Two images on the same page - lifeboat

Lifeboats

Living on the coast at Lyme Regis I often see the lifeboat go out both in practice and on an emergency.  It’s interesting to see the crews manoeuvering the boat into its cage in preparation for it to be returned to the lifeboat station.

Here are the original two images:

I tried several different pictures of the cage and when the boat was being reversed into it but felt the two images above worked best for this exercise.

The problem was that the previous images I thought to use were strong enough to stand-alone.  Here another idea:

I thought I would be able to use a different base image so changed it to the first one at the top.

Here the main image holds the lifeboat whilst it can also be seen in the smaller image.  The inset image is a straight copy with no additional imagery.

Taking it one step further I added a dropped shadow to lift the inset image, linked the two parts together in Photoshop and tilted them clockwise to give it a bit more impact.

 This image has more impact than the two separate images.  It shows different types of activities that the lifeboat have to accomplish in an interesting way.  The two images compliment each other and balance the whole picture.  Both images are balanced on a different part of the thirds division and seem complete.