![]() ![]() This image of a lonely iceberg against a textured mountain side in East Greenland’s amazing Scoresby Sund is a study in several diagonals descending from the top left to the bottom right. Vertical lines also encourage movement of the eye up or down along the line, however there is very little movement of the eye along a horizontal line, which is a rather static visual element. Our association of movement with the diagonal introduces tension, an important ingredient in the visual dynamics of an image. This is an example of where our association of thoughts and feelings with a visual element plays an important role in how we perceive it and how it The eye tends to move along a diagonal, since it implies a change in direction, perhaps because we know that something placed on a diagonal is likely to move downwards. The use of a telephoto lens compresses distance, so that the line formed by the receding ridge of the dune does not change in thickness or tone, and is of a more graphical nature.ĭiagonal lines are particularly dynamic visual elements which you can make use of in your image. On the other hand, if you use a telephoto lens, there is less of a variation in the thickness of receding lines, and the image is of a more graphical nature.Ī beautiful scene in Namibia’s Sossusvlei region as the last light of day touches a lone tree, behind which towers a giant orange colored sand dune. ![]() For example, through use of a wide angle lens, the reduction in scale of more distant objects is pronounced so that, for example, the width of a river winding into the distance drops off more sharply. You can quite easily affect these qualities, such as a variation in thickness, with your choice of perspective and lens. ![]() Lines that do not change in such characteristics may result in an image with less depth and which instead is of a more graphical nature. Lines can convey dimension and depth, but for this to be possible, the line needs to vary in thickness or tone with distance. The whites of the lapping waves could only be achieved with the right shutter speed. The lapping waves of a turquoise colored lake draw a curve against pitch black sand, with the amazing Cuernos del Paine of Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park towering above. ![]()
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