Students had a blast working on their composition and learning how to improve the look of their image by incorporating leading lines to lead the viewers eye through the image. Leading lines usually start at the bottom of the frame and guide the eye upwards and inwards, from the foreground of the image to the background, typically leading toward the main subject.
When leading lines, such as roads, connect the foreground to the background of a scene, they help to create depth and dimensionality which draws the viewer into the image.
When leading lines, such as roads, connect the foreground to the background of a scene, they help to create depth and dimensionality which draws the viewer into the image.
The students practiced leading lines and using them in their images by having each other stand or sit at the end of a line, getting down low, and tilting the camera in order to have the line lead into their subject.
They found lines in manmade objects such as roads, fences, bricks, lamp posts, buildings, doorways, window panes, and lines on the ground throughout the school. In nature, they looked at trees, leaves, tall grass, and rocks amongst other things.
The kindergarteners were even able to pull it off with their halloween guys after some trial and error and managed to get some successful shots!
I was impressed with the level of focus these students had with this lesson and the end result. This was probably my favorite lesson to teach so far because of the level of engagement and the vast array of images that were coming out of it. The students were so excited to see how the look of the image could be manipulated just by changing the composition and angle.
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