Compose-Yourself-Wk-8-Diagonal-Lines

Cee’s

Compose Yourself Challenge

Week 8

Diagonal Lines.

I thought this week would be a struggle…thanks goodness

for my Melbourne excursion.

The original with diagonal…but too much distraction.

With the aid of Picasa’s cropping tool, the diagonal lines are now stronger.  Maybe removing the wall images in Photoshop would have helped also.

This was my very first ‘diagonal lines’ shot.

Too many conflicting lines, I think.

Still a mixture…but the diagonals are stronger.

I spied this bench in the Bourke Street Shopping Mall

and decided to take a few of these shots.

I’m sure the lady sitting just out of shot on the left thought I was mad.

Turning the camera provided lines only…

but with a cropping tool,

using the straighten function (in reverse)

and applying a heat map…all in Picasa…resulted in this.

These are default colours and can be modified.

It is interesting the number of people who will look at a shot

like this and comment… “I don’t like the colours…“

An artist cannot change the colours of an abstract painting,

whereas a couple of  clicks of the mouse and

 photographers can totally change the look of their shot.

The floor of the Royal Arcade, off Bourke Street,

was the setting for this shot.

I think my initial choice was to try to capture that the tiles

had been laid on the diagonal.

Shoppers (and tourists) walk from foreground to background.

Now all I see are diagonal lines and alternating colours.

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Cce’s Compose Yourself Challenge:

Wk-8-Diagonal-Lines

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