Exercise 22: Balancing figure and space

This exercise asks to draw on my photography so far in this course and on the techniques I have learned, to vary the balance in any one picture situation.
I am supposed to aim to produce two images, using the same general viewpoint and composition, varying the balance of attention between the person (or people) and the setting they are in.

Image 1.

f 6.7, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, 18 mm 

 Image 2.

f 11, 1/180 sec, ISO 200, 18 mm 

I combined this exercise with a previous one.
I chose this open field as my setting for this shot.
In Image 1 the attention is solely on the subject; placed central left in the frame, his face commanding the majority of the focus in the image, with the background falling into a soft blur.
In Image 2, the balance of the attention is now on the setting the subject is in.
To achieve this, I captured the subject out of the frame and positioned only his shadow towards the edge of the frame.
I placed him away from the camera in order to remove the personality of the subject and ensure total anonymity which further ensures the focus is on the setting the subject was in.