Lines in Photography

On our third day of taking pictures we got asked to take pictures of different lines that were vertical, horizontal and diagonal, pictures with lines within them make your eyes follow them across the image rather than on one point. We got given half an hour to get as many pictures as we could of different lines, so I went down to Hyde Park to take these.

These are lines on a fence we walked past to get to Hyde Park, these were the first lines we walked past, we thought they looked cool because they have water droplets on them so we took pictures of them. These are horizontal lines.

This mosaic has lots of lines on it so I chose this because it has such a range of lines within the picture, but because there are that many lines your eyes don't follow one specific line but the picture looks good because there is that much variety.

This is a vertical line in Hyde Park, because of the positioning of the picture and the angle of it, your eyes are drawn up the picture towards the top because the lines make your eyes follow where they are going, I used the macro setting for this so I could get the top in focus and the bottom out of focus.

Finally diagonal lines are good pictures as long as the camera is tilted, it gives the picture a different angle. As you can see I havent tilted the camera when taking the picture. I also took this picture on Macro mode but I should of upped the f-stop so more of the wood was in focus rather than just the middle of the plank, then the picture would look better.

Overall lines in photography are good because you look at the whole picture rather than just one focus because your eyes follow the lines, up, down, across and from corner to corner, depending on the lines in the photograph.