From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition

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Day two solution: Shooting leading lines

Day two solution: Shooting leading lines

From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition

Day two solution: Shooting leading lines

- Welcome to the solution for day two of the five day photo challenge. This is day two with bugs, still. I sent you out to shoot leading lines and I went to out to do the same thing, and I kind of put on what I think is my leading line secret weapon: I went out already with my ultra wide-angle lens on. I have a 10-24, which is the equivalent of a 16-35 on this camera, if we're talking about 35 millimeter equivalency. And what that gives me is really exaggerated geometry. So, I'm thinking, with my wide-angle lens, lines are going to get much longer, and they're going to recede at much stronger angles and that's going to give me the ability to really exaggerate and make leading lines. At least, that was my plan. I happen to be in a place where there's lots of vegetation, so I don't have a lot of strong lines, so I was very glad when I walked through a gate and came to this manicured lawn with these walls and things, because right away I could see there were some lines. And I thought…

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