Photography and Lines Challenge

This is an old post from last October 2006 that I am bringing forward and editing for this challenge.

Please share your photos or layouts with examples of lines in photography and add the link to Mr. Linky.




Last fall I played with photograph and lines in a photo shoot of my son and his friend and learned a lot. It is important to pay attention to the lines in the scenery to create better photos.

For this photo, I was standing looking on them from the side on the bench and it was just an ordinary photo. So I began looking around me for lines and found the chain fence running between posts. I bent down and positioned the chain line, along with the guys, in my camera lens. Wow, what a difference it made! The chain leads the eye to the guys.

This layout was my own design (no scraplift) and I used Jeri Ingals Rainbow Trout kit for the background paper; also, the tag from the kit was placed about the page with a lower opacity to it. The tag from the kit had an edging line already on it which gave a great effect to the layout. I know, I always seem to find strange ways to use ordinary items.

Also, speaking of lines, I tried to carry the chain line upward in the layout. The placement of the words and the opaque tags was purposful to carry that line upward. Try it. Move your eye from the bottom of the chain, to the top of the pole, to the word "but," to the line on the opaque tag. Was I successful in my playing? It's wild to me how such little things as this make a big difference in a layout.

I was searching for an appropriate quote for the layout when I remembered these lyrics that the guys wrote. Being as the photo is of them looking down a road, the lyrics seemed to fit the photo just right and seemed so "them" at this time in their life.





Here is my next example of lines in photography.


The photo on the left was the guy's idea of walking down the tracks. Seemed rather a cool idea. However, I noted that my eye did not follow the line of the tracks because it was interrupted with their bodies. So I asked them to both get on the same side of the tracks. Wow, what a difference that made!

The photo on the right is the one in my layout below, only I cropped out my son's friend from the layout. The photo was perfect for my sappy mother babbling.



I used Jerri Ingals kit (Old Growth kit I believe). Great for guy layouts!