Exercise: Implied lines

Looking at the two photographs in the text book and finding the implied lines was really interesting as was doing it with my own pictures. It was much harder than I expected it to be! In the photo of the matador the lines seem to go along the flags he is carrying so they both meet where the bull is. In the other photograph it is a curve which (to me at least) goes from the horses gaze to the cowboy. Both create a real sense of movement which is exciting and dynamic. In my own photos I chose a picture of a boat going through a loch, a man rowing and a woman cycling past rows of stationary bikes. In the boat going through the loch there are two lines - one of the open bridge reaching into the air and the other one of the hull of the boat which runs at a right angle to the bridge. In the rowing man the line is of his oar which forms a diagonal line through the photograph. In the cycling woman the line runs horizontally and she creates a sense of movement as the picture is taken on a long exposure so she is a blur.

In the two photographs taken to show implied lines I chose a woman looking at a man as an illustration of an eye-line. She is looking at him and the viewer's eye is also drawn to look at him. In the landscape of a dutch canal the eye follows the water which leads it in a graceful curve into the distance. The reflection of the trees on the water accentuate this curve as do the trees on the other bank which sweep around towards the horizon. It's a shame it's overexposed.