2022 Weekly Photo Challenge
Week 18: Curves
Your challenge this week, should you choose to accept it, is to create an image based on, or which incorporates curved lines.
Photographers often look for leading lines in a scene, to use as a tool to create interest and draw the viewer’s eye into the image. Many times leading lines are straight, whether they’re obvious, as in a highway disappearing into the horizon, or a little more subdued, such as wood grain.
But the lines you include in your photos don’t have to be straight. A curved line can capture and lead the eye just as strongly as any old straight line.
And curved lines can make for wonderful framing devices in your compositions, too.
We live our lives in environments filled with straight lines. Our houses are made up of lines and angles. Streets tend to go straight for as long as they can. The text you’re reading right now is neatly aligned in straight lines on a screen bounded by four straight lines. Straight lines are all around us.
But if you make a conscious effort to stop seeing all those straight lines for just a moment, you’ll find a world of curves out there, too.
Eric Culver Photography 