Exercise 18: Horizontal and vertical lines
(8 photographs)
You need to go out and look for specific examples and photograph them. To start with tackle just horizontal and vertical lines. Part of the value of this kind of exercise in photograph is that it helps you to discover appearance and, in the process of searching, you are likely to reach some conclusions about how certain design elements come about and how common or rare they are. The aim of this exercise is to find some of the different ways in which horizontal and vertical lines appear to the eye and camera.
You should produce four examples of vertical and four of horizontal end, as far as you can, avoid repeating the way in which a line appears. For instance, if you photograph the vertical lines in a tall building as one example, don´t repeat it. In each photograph, try to subordinate the content of the picture to the line. The most successful examples will be those in which the line is the first thing a viewer would notice.
You need to go out and look for specific examples and photograph them. To start with tackle just horizontal and vertical lines. Part of the value of this kind of exercise in photograph is that it helps you to discover appearance and, in the process of searching, you are likely to reach some conclusions about how certain design elements come about and how common or rare they are. The aim of this exercise is to find some of the different ways in which horizontal and vertical lines appear to the eye and camera.
You should produce four examples of vertical and four of horizontal end, as far as you can, avoid repeating the way in which a line appears. For instance, if you photograph the vertical lines in a tall building as one example, don´t repeat it. In each photograph, try to subordinate the content of the picture to the line. The most successful examples will be those in which the line is the first thing a viewer would notice.
HORIZONTAL
VERTICAL
My feedback
I took some photographs during my time in Paris, some in Dublin. I mostly shoot horizontal, but after the exercise I choose a lot of times to shoot both, horizontal and vertical and see at home the difference between them. I think it is a good exercise for me to learn more about lines/composition.
I try to choose 4 totally different items so there is some variety in the photographs. I know I took 2x a photograph of the the Eiffel tower, but I think they both completly different and they show the vertical line in two difference ways.
I took some photographs during my time in Paris, some in Dublin. I mostly shoot horizontal, but after the exercise I choose a lot of times to shoot both, horizontal and vertical and see at home the difference between them. I think it is a good exercise for me to learn more about lines/composition.
I try to choose 4 totally different items so there is some variety in the photographs. I know I took 2x a photograph of the the Eiffel tower, but I think they both completly different and they show the vertical line in two difference ways.