Poster layout

When designing my poster i need to choose a particular layout. Here are 3 possibilities;

Quite a simple layout design, on an easy to navigate, understandable poster. Maybe a little boring at a first glance.

This idea involves a poster with the full image of my model on, and also the type 100 years of G. F Smith paper. On the next layer which with the 3rd layer will be of tracing paper, will have a section taken of the same model, and a section more of type. Then followed on the 3rd layer will be more of the image and more type. I like this idea as it is complex and inventive yet i feel it may be making the poster a little too complicated than it needs to be.

This poster works on 2 layers the back layer being just the image, maybe blurred of faded out and then the writing being the main focus of the page placed in the centre.