In order to improve my photography, I've subscribed to the Digital Photography School, which sends me articles every week and challenges. I would highly suggest this website for beginning photographers such as myself, because you can learn a lot of basics and challenge yourself. As I was going through the website I ran across a compilation of articles about composition. This particular article was about lines in photography. It suggested to look through your photography and look for lines that worked and lines that didn't. So I'm going to do just that! :)
I picked this photo as an example of horizontal lines (with a touch of vertical lines). As I looked at it , I liked the fact that the horizontal line gets interrupted but then continues through the fallen tree branch. As for vertical lines, in the original, the tree was right in the middle, but as I cropped it to make it off center it looked even better.
I noticed I don't take very many pictures with horizontal lines. This one has some good vertical lines with the trees, and an interesting diagonal line going through the middle, and one horizontal line in the bottom third. Generally I don't like very many pictures I take like this, but because of the way the lines are, it gives you more to look at. As far as the rest of the picture though, there's a lot more that could have been changed, such as lighting and other things.
I thought this one was a decent example of vertical lines in a photo. One aspect of vertical photos is giving the feel of growth, which I thought fitting because bamboo always seems so tall to me, so shooting this vertically helped convey that. One thought I had about this photo, however is how might this picture have changed is the bamboo was flush with the edge of the photo. Would it enhance the photo, or detract? Another thought I had was how might it look had I shot it horizontally with the vertical lines?
I chose this one as an example of diagonal lines. However, one thing I noticed as I looked at this picture was the way that the lines lead me. I end up looking at the picture and go from the flowers in the bottom left corner, to the stems at the top left. That's not the focus that I was working towards. I wonder how it might look if I mirror image flipped the photo so that the lines lead from the top left and went down to the right. It seems as if with diagonal lines, your eyes go from left to right.
I like this photo because the multiple diagonal lines give the photo a sense of depth and give you that unruly feeling that weeds generally do. I don't know if it's just me, but this a photo that draws me in like a maze might.
I picked this photo as an example of horizontal lines (with a touch of vertical lines). As I looked at it , I liked the fact that the horizontal line gets interrupted but then continues through the fallen tree branch. As for vertical lines, in the original, the tree was right in the middle, but as I cropped it to make it off center it looked even better.
I noticed I don't take very many pictures with horizontal lines. This one has some good vertical lines with the trees, and an interesting diagonal line going through the middle, and one horizontal line in the bottom third. Generally I don't like very many pictures I take like this, but because of the way the lines are, it gives you more to look at. As far as the rest of the picture though, there's a lot more that could have been changed, such as lighting and other things.
I thought this one was a decent example of vertical lines in a photo. One aspect of vertical photos is giving the feel of growth, which I thought fitting because bamboo always seems so tall to me, so shooting this vertically helped convey that. One thought I had about this photo, however is how might this picture have changed is the bamboo was flush with the edge of the photo. Would it enhance the photo, or detract? Another thought I had was how might it look had I shot it horizontally with the vertical lines?
I chose this one as an example of diagonal lines. However, one thing I noticed as I looked at this picture was the way that the lines lead me. I end up looking at the picture and go from the flowers in the bottom left corner, to the stems at the top left. That's not the focus that I was working towards. I wonder how it might look if I mirror image flipped the photo so that the lines lead from the top left and went down to the right. It seems as if with diagonal lines, your eyes go from left to right.
I like this photo because the multiple diagonal lines give the photo a sense of depth and give you that unruly feeling that weeds generally do. I don't know if it's just me, but this a photo that draws me in like a maze might.
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