
I asked my bf which his fave dog is he said “top middle” to which I said there isn’t a top middle, because there isn’t three dogs up top, does he mean the one on the right? And he said there is no top right bc there’s no dog in the upper right quadrant and it’s the top middle. Who is correct
As a professional photographer and graphic designer, looking at the provided picture from a compositional standpoint, the claim that the dog is in the “top middle” is valid. The framing of the picture isn’t necessarily required to be evenly populated by the dogs for these positional descriptions to apply. Position should be defined relative to the boundaries of the image, not the density of the dogs. If you divide the picture into thirds, you’ll notice something SHOCKING.
That dog is horizontally centered and vertically in the “top middle” third of the photo. Considering this, there is no “top right” dog, because that region is unoccupied. However, “top middle” is a perfect descriptor of that dog. Therefore, he is correct both compositionally and pixel-wise. The dog lines up very evenly when you take the edges of it to the border of the picture. Therefore, he is correct. “Top middle” is the correct description.