The Use of Clear Channels in Composition (discuss/share).
Dec 13, 2018 07:32:14 #
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm sure we all use channels as a leading line often, without thinking about it. Now I may have more of a tendency to think about it as a leading line!
Dec 13, 2018 07:39:19 #
MattPhox wrote:
And you have a pleasing angle starting from lower left. This is a beauty!I have one.
Dec 13, 2018 08:41:55 #
I like your term, "channels". I took this photo last fall while driving to Salt Lake City. My focus was the storm clouds and rainbow over the mountains, but I loved how the dark highway led me there. Not sure if this fits, exactly.
Dec 13, 2018 09:02:44 #
Here's a road and stone wall channel cutting through Glencoe.
Dec 13, 2018 09:11:35 #
Dec 13, 2018 09:16:02 #
Dec 13, 2018 09:25:55 #
As I was looking for the first image here, which may be a combination of leading lines and channeling? I pondered whether this architectural image might also be an example of channeling.
Dec 13, 2018 09:34:41 #
PattyW60 wrote:
I like your term, "channels". I took this photo last fall while driving to Salt Lake City. My focus was the storm clouds and rainbow over the mountains, but I loved how the dark highway led me there. Not sure if this fits, exactly.
A lot of "wow" factor in that one.
Dec 13, 2018 09:37:07 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
And you have a pleasing angle starting from lower left. This is a beauty!
Thank you for saying, Linda. Mother Nature really did a great job on this one. Okay, maybe some PP software too!
Dec 13, 2018 09:37:44 #
Dec 13, 2018 09:38:34 #
fergmark wrote:
As I was looking for the first image here, which may be a combination of leading lines and channeling? I pondered whether this architectural image might also be an example of channeling.
Love all the lines in #1.
Dec 13, 2018 10:32:04 #
MattPhox wrote:
I have one.
Yup. That'll do - an eye channeler with a destination at the end (not always a requirement).
Dec 13, 2018 10:50:08 #
Rolk wrote:
I thought of this one which I captured in Key West last month, and thought that the "islands" on each side of the frame "channel" the water and your eyes to the moored boats.
Tim
Tim
Thanks for posting, Tim. Your shot got me thinking quite a lot. It's similar to pmorin's shot in that your shot skirts the boundary between channels and framing elements. His skirts the boundary between channels and leading lines.
Considering both together, it got me to realise that there's a whole spectrum of what we could call attention directors, where width is the variable factor. Leading lines are thin attention directors, framing elements are wide attention directors and in between we have channels.
What leading lines and channels have in common is that they can direct our attention to specific objects or areas, or alternatively they can simply lead the eye into the shot - not necessarily from the immediate foreground because they can start from well within the shot - and they may or may not lead the eye into the far distance. But ideally they would start in the immediate foreground and lead the eye well into the shot.
Dec 13, 2018 10:54:07 #
Wanda Krack wrote:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm sure we all use channels as a leading line often, without thinking about it. Now I may have more of a tendency to think about it as a leading line!
Thank you for commenting, Wanda. I would say that channels deserve more awareness and comment than they get. Just like leading lines and natural framing, they can lift a shot up a notch.
Dec 13, 2018 11:01:40 #
PattyW60 wrote:
I like your term, "channels". I took this photo last fall while driving to Salt Lake City. My focus was the storm clouds and rainbow over the mountains, but I loved how the dark highway led me there. Not sure if this fits, exactly.
Thanks for posting, Patty. As an attention director the road works well, and it directs the eye towards the main area of visual interest (where the attention holders are).
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