Inspired #5

Adding visual impact by following the line.

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.

We have had some lovely images to discuss in this months photo challenge which is all about lines. In this edition of inspired I want to talk about ways we can use lines to add impact to our images.

I probably could have written this post using a collection of images from my archive, but I thought it would be more interesting to go out and take some photos specifically for this article. I wanted to challenge myself to head out on a wet, windy and frankly very unpleasant day to see if I could make any images that were worth sharing. The challenge was to use lines to add some impact to my compositions and see what could be achieved on a day when I normally wouldn’t have ventured outside.