Horizontal and vertical lines

The aim of this exercise was to find some of the different ways in which horizontal and vertical lines appear to the eye and camera.

Horizontal lines

P178: f14 @ 1/160 44mm ISO 200



The line here is created by a row of painted characters the same distance from the camera. Colour in this piece of street graffitti was replaced by black and white to enhance the detail in the image.

P179: f14 @ 1/160 44mm ISO 200 

Linked floats produced the horizontal line here.

P180 : f9 @ 1/250 51mm ISO 200

In this image the shape of these three stacked canoes gives a firm horizontal line.    

P181 : F 

The trees running across the horizon in this image form a strong horizontal line emphaisised by the field of linseed in front. 



Vertical lines

P182: f11 @ 1/125 48mm ISO 200

The shape of this shell set against the vertical railings produces a strong vertical line.

P183: f8 @ 1/1600 11mm ISO 800

The vertical line in this image comes from the path stretching down ahead of the camera into the distance.

P184: f11 @ 1/320  31mm ISO 200

I think the vertical lines here come from the rows of windows stretching upwards to the sky. Definitely a dynamic sense of of upward movement.

P185: f8 @ 1/320 13mm ISO 200

The vertical line of this Tate banner has the vertical enhanced by the taut stretching of the material and the top of St Paul's cupola pointing skyward parallel to the banner.