Elements of Design: Project - Lines, pt2

Exercise: Diagonals
4 photographs

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As the course material suggests, it is a simple case of creating strong verticals in a photograph dependant on the viewing angle. I have included x2 examples of actual diagonals that I have found and x2 where the diagonal has been created by the viewing angle.

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Elements of Design: Project - Lines, pt1

Exercise: Horizontal and vertical lines
8 photographs

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I found it much easier to find examples of vertical lines that horizontal: maybe it’s the way my mind works? After living in both cities and country areas I have seen a lot of natural and manmade verticals; trees, buildings, poles, etc.

After completing the exercise and reading on I found that I had encountered a lot of what was suggested by the course material. In fact, I only really had two verticals that weren’t suggested; a vertical fountain and a guitar neck.

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Elements of Design: Project - Points, pt3

Exercise: Multiple points
3 photographs

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Elements of Design: Project - Points, pt2

Exercise: The relationship between points
4 photographs

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When I first read the brief for this exercise I thought that natural examples of two points might be a little challenging; turns out they’re everywhere!

As stated in the brief, I noticed that one point is normally a lot more dominant than the other in my example. Cases when points have equal presence (such as the eyes example) tend to have a very static composition.

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Elements of Design: Project - Points, pt1

Exercise: Positioning a point
3 photographs

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I’ve had a bit of a break from the course owing to work commitments, holidays and other points of admin I’ve had to do so it’s about time I got back into it. I managed to get the first assignment in on time so now I’m working toward Assignment 2: Elements of design.

The positioning a point exercise is similar to one that was done in the first part of the course. Here I photographed a pigeon as a single point as there were few details surrounding it and made for an easy composition.

Notes on each photo are on my photobucket account.

Assignment 1: Contrasts

x8 contrasting pairs of photographs
x1 photo of contrast summed up in one picture.

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The course material states that contrast is “one of the most fundamental principles in design” and covers a whole spectrum of concepts which is only limited to imagination and/or interpretation. When I looked back over my work leading up to this first assignment I began to consider the possibilities open to me with a reasonably large selection of contrasts to work with. The first thing I decided on when planning this series of photographs was that I was going to try and include as many of the techniques I have learned from the course up to this point to help produce a set of photographs that are extremely eye-catching.

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The Frame: Project - Cropping and extending

Exercise: Cropping
3 photographs

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