PROJECT #4: LEADING LINES

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


DIRECTIONS FOR HW (FOUR/4 POINTS): 
-Working with someone outside of school, make 5+ photographs that include ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your MAIN SUBJECT MATTER, your person/pet. 
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 

MINIMUM NUMBER OF PHOTOS FOR SCORING: EIGHT/8

(You will have made ten+ photos. Your best eight will be posted to your site)

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EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE:

A SPECTACULAR COMPOSITION BY STEVE McCURRY:

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.

A GREAT LEADING LINES IMAGE:

Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.

Eugene Richards site. CLICK HERE.