1. Make the photos as directed on the handout example sheet.
2. Develop and post the photos to a post titled "LEADING LINES"
DIRECTIONS for HOMEWORK (4 points):
1. Make EIGHT (8+) more photos OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL that have one or two OBVIOUS leading lines that draw our eye to your subject matter. Due next class.
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Photo by Steve McCurry
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Henri Cartier Bresson. Hyères, France. 1932 |
The lines that compose the Bresson photo:
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(About the Hyères photo. CLICK HERE.) Cartier-Bresson's site. CLICK HERE. |
ANSEL ADAMS' ICONIC SNAKE RIVER PHOTOGRAPH:
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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)*
AND MY PERSONAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE LEADING LINES IMAGE:
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Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY. 1993. Eugene Richards. |
BASIC EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE:


