Project 21: Diagonals

Here again I show 4 photographs which use diagonals strongly. I have tried to choose a variety of situations, some with really obvious diagonals and a few a bit more subtle.

Photo 1. This photo was taken in Amsterdam and I was lucky to get this shot with the sun shining (it dissapeared when I went to take a second photo and the shadows went away too!). I like the brick background and the strong diagonal shadows on the wall. The inclusion of the bottom window (with no shadow) adds interest and breaks up the repetition which works really well in this photo.

f8, 63mm, 1/400s, ISO400

Photo 2. This photo was taken at Roslin, near Edinburgh, and I chose to focus again on the shadows, this time a small pen in a field and a power pole shadow on the ground. I like the slightly grainy film-like quality of the gently diagonal grass in the upper part of this photo.

f4.5, 40mm, 1/180sec, ISO200

Photo 3. This photo was taken in the lakes district, looking up a valley at a small waterfall and seeing all the other valleys converging from left and right to form a series of diagonal lines. This is quite subtle use of diagonals but I think you can still clearly see the diagonal elements.

f8, 70mm, 1/500s, ISO400

Photo 4. This photo was taken in Edinburgh (Marchmont). I have taken the photo at an angle which emphasises the diagonals, but because the building is still loosely aligned in the frame it actually lessens the effect of the diagonal. This is interesting... diagonals which still conform to the frame.

f11, 35mm, 1/60s, ISO400, Tripod

I found using different focal lengths helped to see different diagonals (and other lines etc) when out taking photos for this project.