Lines in photographic composition

Lead: In photography, lines are everywhere. The key is that photographers should have the skills to discover, explore and refine beautiful lines. Let's have a look!

Function of lines

Visual guidance

The direction of lines in the picture affects the visual process when people watch photos. It is of great significance to make full use of this to express the theme and guide the audience to browse the visual focus.

beauty in form

Lines can create formal beauty. As for what kind of lines can create formal beauty, we need to be too nervous in our life.

Split screen process

No matter what shape the lines are, when they cross each other, they all have the function of dividing the picture. Make full use of this function, you can make the picture more artistic through segmentation.

Perspective traction photography course

Through proper composition, simple lines can form a perspective traction effect, greatly enhancing the sense of space and three-dimensional sense of the picture.

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Look for tangible lines, lines of buildings

Many buildings, especially modern buildings, have a distinct sense of lines, both straight lines and curves are subjects worthy of careful observation and capture by photographers.

Looking for tangible linear plants

Plants are also a kind of subjects with obvious line sense, especially tiny branches and dry branches in winter. A that can be used as an object to express lines. The lines of this subject matter are slender and easy to get lost in the messy background. Therefore, when shooting, try to choose a simple background, or use a shallow depth of field to blur the area outside the lines as much as possible to make the subject stand out.

Looking for tangible line mountains

There are great similarities between refining the lines of mountains and building. Compared with the relative rules of architectural lines, the lines of mountains are more casual and full of natural charm.

Look for tangible lines and roads

Road is a common theme in landscape shooting, and different roads form different lines, so we can pay attention to highlight its characteristics when shooting.

Looking for tangible lines and natural landforms

The landform of nature is ever-changing, and due to many reasons such as geographical location and ecological environment, it presents strange scenes. For example, Jiuzhaigou, Huanglong and Ghost Town in China, Antelope Valley and Yellowstone National Park in the United States, such landforms should be paid attention to by interested photographers and displayed in their works.

Look for tangible lines and light.

Light is also a common line, whether it is natural light or artificial light, it is a very good performance object.

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Lines can shape the formal beauty of photos very well, so try to extract the lines in the picture to express them when taking pictures. However, not all scenes have lines of light, or the lines that need to be shown under conventional perspective are not obvious or beautiful. At this time, as a photographer, we should try to find and extract lines from some special perspectives, or to create lines.