Inspired #4

Working with lines in a creative challenge

Hello and welcome to Inspired, a new weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.

This months photo challenge is all about using lines in your photography compositionally and aesthetically. I usually spend my time making images of the grand landscape but sometimes it is just as interesting to point the camera at much smaller scenes. This week I thought I would discuss a recent trip to a working harbour and the images that I made there. I went with the idea of working with detail, but using lines as the dominant compositional elements. I wanted to take this idea one step further and create some diptychs using the lines to guide the viewers eye around both images and not just one.

My rules for this challenge were to find two images that worked well together in terms of subject, colour and tone, but that also had a strong visual flow when viewed as a pair.