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Leading lines definition:

Leading lines are the lines in an image that draw your eyes to focus on, for example a side street and the yellow lines continue going down, that is where your eyes lead you to. Everything else around doesn't matter, the images when make leading lines are theses where you can draw lines on and they go in the same direction.

Leading Lines & Focal Points 

Some examples of leading lines:

Shoot: 

Edits:

Screenshots:

Annotations:

The purpose of this shoot is to represent the lines we see in everyday life and don't realise until we actually look for them. Leading lines are what it says, lines. They are what our eyes follow because they draw us to them over any other shape around. While on the shoot I noticed that there were many more lines around that I thought they'd be. There was hundreds and hundreds of lines around and I chose a select few to capture. 

Some successful elements of the shoot were that I found it very easy to take the pictures of the lines because they are all around. I made some of the lines stand out more from the everyday line buy using the enhancing and lightening tool in PhotoShop.

Some improvements that need to be made would be the quality of some of my images. I feel that I need to take the time to think about the picture I am taking rather than just pointing the camera and clicking. I will do this by going out on another shoot and improving the picture quality.

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Just below are some of my images with lines on them to show the direction of the leading lines so that it is clear to everyone. I wanted to do this to help the image be more dynamic. The lines are used to draw the viewer into specific areas of the picture, therefore emphasising focal points. 

Train track covered in snow
Leading-Lines
train station
bridge
bridge trees
Bridge
DSCF0871
DSCF0583
DSCF0306
DSCF0855
DSCF0825
DSCF0194
DSCF0515
DSCF0827
DSCF0823
DSCF0807
DSCF0805
DSCF0774
DSCF0803
DSCF0743
DSCF0874
DSCF0752
DSCF0741
DSCF0582
DSCF0767
DSCF0482
DSCF0706
DSCF0308
DSCF0733
DSCF0719
IMAG0293
DSCF0309
DSCF0570
DSCF0722
DSCF0407
DSCF0416
DSCF0408
DSCF0415
DSCF0305
DSCF0361
DSCF0354
DSCF0178
DSCF0307
DSCF0482 lines
DSCF0416 lines
DSCF0415 lines
DSCF0408 lines
DSCF0407 lines
DSCF0354 lines
DSCF0361 lines
DSCF0309 lines
DSCF0308 lines
DSCF0178 lines
DSCF0306 lines
DSCF0307 lines
DSCF0305 lines
DSC_1608 lines
DSC_1606 lines
DSC_1607 lines
DSCF0515 lines
DSCF0570 lines
yellow lines
two tubs pub
Path
Lift
the rock car park
steps_1
black and white road
St Gabriels
sign
crossing
Red wall
side street
Black & White steps
red allyway
Ramp
escalator
Steps
coloured background
& sign
Car park roof
Hospital ramp
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2016 by Sophie Ellis

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