08 October 2019

PROJ #6: LEADING LINES

DIRECTIONS IN CLASS (FOUR/4 POINTS): 
-Make 5+ photographs that include at least ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your PRIMARY SUBJECT MATTER.
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 


DIRECTIONS FOR HW (FOUR/4 POINTS)
-Make 5+ photographs that include at least ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your PRIMARY SUBJECT MATTER.
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 

TOTAL PHOTOS NEEDED FOR SCORING: EIGHT/8

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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)*


AND MY PERSONAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE LEADING LINES IMAGE:
Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.




BASIC EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE: