[Tex/LaTex] vertically center subfloat figure

subfloats

How can I vertically center the taller figure on the right? I tried reading subfig package and there mentioned \savebox but I'm not sure if that can provide a solution. Please help. Thanks.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array,booktabs}
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem}
\usepackage[margin=0pt]{subfig}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}[c][11cm][t]{.5\textwidth}
\vspace*{\fill}
\centering
\subfloat[a]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034-1-4SG.pdf}
}
\par\vfill
\subfloat[b]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034all.pdf}
}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][11cm][t]{.5\textwidth}
\vspace*{\fill}
\centering
\subfloat[c]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034-SEC.pdf}
}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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Your two minipages with little modifications can do the job (I additionally suppressed some spurious blank spaces)

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{array,booktabs}
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem}
\usepackage[margin=0pt]{subfig}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}[c]{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\subfloat[a]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034-1-4SG.pdf}}\par
\subfloat[b]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034all.pdf}}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\subfloat[c]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{./graphics/plots/ST034-SEC.pdf}}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.

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In case you installed TeX Live from the packages of a Linux distro: Most distros split less-used LaTeX-packages into separate (Linux-distro)-packages. From the link in your question I assume that you are running Arch Linux. In this case you need to install the texlive-latexextra package which contains subfigure.sty. If you are using a different distro, the necessary package might be named differently (e.g. texlive-latex-extra in Debian/Ubuntu).

Also, as Peter notes, the subfigure package is depreciated.

[Tex/LaTex] Subtitle for figure (subfloat)

Like this?

it is obtained by use of package stackengine:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{stackengine}% for put note about sorce below image
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[hb]
    \centering
\def\stackalignment{r}
\begin{tabularx}{\hsize}{*2{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}}
\caption{Left figure}
\label{fig:left}
\stackunder{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
           {\scriptsize%
            Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
    &
\caption{Right figure}
\label{fig:right}
\stackunder{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
           {\scriptsize%
            Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
\end{tabularx}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}

Or with use of package \copyrightbox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage{copyrightbox}
\usepackage{url}

\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[hb]
    \centering
\begin{tabularx}{\hsize}{*2{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}}
\caption{Left figure}
\label{fig:left}
\copyrightbox[b]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
           {Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
    &
\caption{Right figure}
\label{fig:right}
\copyrightbox[b]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
           {Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
\end{tabularx}
    \end{figure}

\end{document}

Addedndum: in case that image has two sub-figures. With use of \copyrightbox[b]{...}{...} and option position=top for subfig package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage{copyrightbox}
\usepackage{url}

\usepackage[position=top]{subfig}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[hb]
    \centering
    \caption{Figure caption}
\subfloat[Left sub-figure   \label{fig:left}]{
\copyrightbox[b]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
           {Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
}                        
\hfil
\subfloat[Right sub-figure  \label{fig:right}]{
\copyrightbox[b]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
           {Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}

Addedndum (2): it seems that package \copyrightbox not enable to center text with source information below the image. Use of stackengine haven't this limitation. An example with it and option position=top for subfig package is below:

The right image has text below image in gray color (for comparison only). MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{stackengine}% for put note about sorce below image
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage[position=top]{subfig}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[hb]
    \centering
\def\stackalignment{c}% <-- define alignment of stack
    \caption{Figure caption}
\subfloat[Left sub-figure   \label{fig:left}]{
\stackunder{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
           {\scriptsize%
            Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
}
\hfil
\subfloat[Right sub-figure  \label{fig:right}]{
\stackunder{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
           {\scriptsize\color{gray}% <-- if you prefer to have text in gray
            Source: \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}

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