Project 52 - Week 21: Leading Lines - Lead The Eye

After going through the withdrawal of missing last week's blog post, I pulled out my red pen and marked up a boat load of images, as per our author, finding the lines that led my eye.  If the image wasn't in a magazine, I drew imaginary lines on Facebook and Pinterest photos. In fact, I found myself standing in front of a photo in Starbucks, tracing with my finger in the air and then realized that people were watching me.

With my new found leading line observation skills, I created two photos for this week.  The first is of Billie sitting below our back patio in the early evening (dwindling) sun.

I particularly tried to use a diagonal line in this image.  I've added a yellow arrow (I failed arrow drawing for sure) below to give you an idea of the line I was going for.

Going from the left corner (near the rock wall) to the right upper corner (lilies) with Billie not quite in the middle, makes this image more interesting than if Billie was sitting next to the bush or along the fence line.  Even though there are other things that could grab the eye, they are inconsequential enough, and blurred enough, that the main diagonal line should grab the eye and lead to Billie.

Here is my second image.

This one is a little brighter as it was done a bit earlier on the same evening.  I placed Billie toward the "back" of this image, allowing the planks of the swing to lead to her, once again using an f-stop that would allow the blurring out of the background.  And of course, the image with arrows follows.

I have a number of shots with Billie looking different ways into the camera.  But this one called to me.  There are also two triangles in the image, which complement each other and add to pulling your eye into the story.  Can you find them?

The swing photo is now one of my favorites of Billie who can be very hard to photograph due to her coloring.  I shot all images this week with an 85mm f/1.4.

To see what others in the blog circle have done in answer to this week's theme, start here with Little White Dog Pet Photography, Sioux Falls, South Dakota to check out Kelly Middlebrooks leading line work.  Have fun and have a great weekend!