Our brief was to "find at least two normally occurring situations in which there are two points, and then compose and take the pictures without preconceptions, quite naturally".
By having just the one point in the frame it captures the full focus of your attention. However, when there are two points in the frame usually one point will dominate the composition and attract more attention than the other.
I this photo of two ducks on the river I feel that my attention is first drawn to the duck on the left first. I think this is because it appears much clearer against the water where as the one on the right is against quite a bit of reflection from the water. They both appear to be looking at the same thing so there is an implied line to that point.
With this image the duck to the right makes a stronger impression as it is nearest to the camera and therefore appears larger in the frame. There is an implied line running through them from the top left to bottom right as one follows the other.
There is an exception where both points attract full attention which is a close up of someone's eyes, where both points attract attention equally.
The image should be composed so that the eyes are equidistant from the centre of the frame. I have to say that rarely is someone's face perfectly symmetrical with eyes exactly the same size as eachother, I definitely do not have a symmetrical face!
You can notice by doing this that when viewing the image your attention moves between the points, never settling, as your eye is unable to resolve the composition.
“Two dominant points in a frame create a dimension of distance, a measurement of part of the frame”
(M. Freeman, The Photographer's Eye, p. 70, 2007).
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