Assignment 8: Leading Lines

[Dan Fleming]

Good morning everyone (at least it is morning for me)! We have assignment 8 ready to go today. Travis Chance has asked that we do an assignment on Leading Lines: "visually interesting but compositionally simple." If you need some additional inspiration here is a Wikipedia definition: "Leading Lines are lines that guide your eye through the painting or
photograph." Have fun shooting, just make sure your submissions are in by April 2, Good Friday for the christian among us, also the day you can stop worrying about getting pranked!





Sorry about that! I was away for easter weekend, and never really got caught up on stuff this week, so the forum was completely out of my head. Anyway, i have compiled a finalist list, so here is the list with the poll at the bottom.





Garrett-Grimsley








Jorundr-Jorgensen


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LeTiger








Travischance








Sirhc_1


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btaylor


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varok











[Poll]

[greggf]

Here is a submission...I think the fence constitutes-lines-it leads you in and out of the photo.


taken with 5D2, 70-200ll, iso 200 180mm 2.8@1/1250th


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[alexniedra]

Here's my submission. Sit back, relax and let the leading lines these downtown streets guide you through this aerial shot of Paris. Shot from the Eiffel Tower (EOS Rebel Xti, Tokina 12-24mm f/4)


ISO 400, f/11, 1/500 @ 12mm

[crosbyharbison]

iso 400, 41mm, f/10, 1/250 sec, canon 40d, canon 28-135

[Pieter]

Here's my submission. Sit back, relax and let the leading lines these downtown streets guide you through this aerial shot of Paris. Shot from the Eiffel Tower (EOS Rebel Xti, Tokina 12-24mm f/4)


ISO 400, f/11, 1/500 @ 12mm






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Nice one, Alex, the depth of field is incredible.





I have to look in my photo-library to see whether I have something that fits in this assignment, pretty hard one.


BTW(Off-topic, I'm sorry), which photo-library program do you use? I use Picassa, and it works great

[stampedingturtle]

I thought I would keep it simple for my first assignment.


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Canon 450D &amp; EF 70-200 L

[richm]

A couple of candidates:


NYC - 10mm 1/2000 f3.5 ISO 400


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Evening on the CT River - 24mm 1/125 f8.0 ISO 400


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[MattG]

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Hearst Building NYC


T1i, 17-55, f2.8, ISO 200, 20mm, 1/2000

[alexniedra]

Nice one, Alex, the depth of field is incredible.

Thanks Pieter. []


I like to use a 12mm lens at f/9-f/11 for the majority of my landscape images for full depth-of-field.

BTW(Off-topic, I'm sorry), which photo-library program do you use? I use Picassa, and it works great

No problem - I don't mind, and I hope everyone is okay with this semi-irrelevant discussion.


I use Adobe Lightroom 2.0 for organizing my images. It allows me to import, edit and export all of my images in a streamlined worflow. I'm sort of an Adobe nerd, sorry. []


I have used Picasa as well and I think it's great. I just prefer Lightroom for it's editing/fixing options and it's intelligent export options (Zenfolio, Facebook and Flickr direct export). Very rarely do I do any more editing to my images than what I can do in Lightroom, but all that may change when Adobe Photoshop CS5 comes out in April. [] I have to admit, HDR seems really cool to try sometime. I currently use Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Ancient! I know!) for Panoramas and I have been pleased with the results so far.

[ddt0725]

First assignment I was able to enter! []

7D, 100-400mm @ 100mm, f/4.5, 1/125, ISO 100

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