PROJ #3: LEADING LINES (Composition)

DIRECTIONS. Make 8+ well-composed photographs that include a leading line that draws our eye to your subject matter. Bring photos to next class (8 photos = 4 points)

-Position your person in the composition so that a "line" element draws our eye to tha person.

-The "line" might be a railing, the edge of a table. a window sill, a line on a football field...really, the possibilites are endless. 

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Photo by Steve McCurry

Henri Cartier Bresson. Hyères, France. 1932

The lines that compose the Bresson photo:

(About the Hyères photo. CLICK HERE.)

Cartier-Bresson's site. CLICK HERE.

ANSEL ADAMS' ICONIC SNAKE RIVER PHOTOGRAPH:

Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WY, 1942, photo, NARA, Records of the National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is thereby a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety.”  Quote of Ansel Adams (1902-1984)*

Ansel Adams site. CLICK HERE.

AND MY PERSONAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE LEADING LINES IMAGE:

Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.

Eugene Richards site. CLICK HERE.

BASIC EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE: