hey and welcome I'm going to announce the winning photo from the Tims
photos.com Academy photo challenge for this particular week the photo challenge
was for leading lines so we were looking for photos that had an element in the
composition where there was a leading line that drew the eye from the
foreground into the background at the end of this video I'm going to announce
the next photo challenge which begins right now and you can enter your photos
into this photo challenge just by joining the Tim's photos comm Academy
Facebook group let me just say there were about 90 entries for this
particular photo challenge so so many of them were were very good but I am
showing you some of the top entries especially because some of them are such
good examples of what a leading line is we start off with this really good photo
from Johnny Deal he used a glass ball to shoot through I like the fact that the
background is all blown out and there's a great leading line there that's a it's
a good one Johnny this one is from Peter Oh a good leading line example I would
have liked to have seen this person here most likely cloned out it's a little bit
of a distraction but it's a great composition all around the next one is
from Brian Haga boom he wrote that his son ran into the house
and said dad look at these amazing clouds outside and Brian ran outside
with his camera and shot this it's a very dramatic sky great leading line
that takes my eye from the foreground right into the sunset in the background
this is a really good photo this one is from Allen stud and this is an example
of leading lines leading lines really that are radiating in towards the center
of the photo absolutely fantastic job on the editing on this one
Allen Joe Warwick this one is from valley of fire state park which is just
outside of Las Vegas this is a nice leading line but I find that this
foreground leading is leading my eye off to the right and
out of the frame of the photo so I would have liked to have seen a composition
where the road whines and heads towards the background but it's still a great
photo this one is from Phil Conforti and this is a leading line great moody photo
black-and-white original type of location there's lots of personality
with this photo I like it a lot this one from rajma nickim and this is a
fantastic leading line right from the foreground into the background good job
on that one this one is from Saraj corolla and we've got multiple leading
lines that lead from the foreground right up the escalator into the
background which is this amazing piece of architecture very original photo I
like it this one is from Calogero dimino and this is a composition from a trip he
was on in Japan very original it's simple nothing I can complain about
with this photo it's a good one this one from susan bird this is the Palouse
region of washington state which is where my wife and i are going next week
to this very spot which is called Steptoe butte and this is a fantastic
photo there's a leading line which is this little creek nice smooth curves
we've got foreground here in the form of flowers this is a beautiful photo
well done Susan this one is from Nelson Rudy ACK this is a simple photo I would
call this a minimalist photo because there's not a lot to look at but I
actually really like it it's simple and we know what to look at we know to look
at the ship and we've got that line that leads from the ship going behind it I
think this is a fantastic photo he did a great job with this one he actually shot
it off an upper deck of a cruise ship I actually thought it was a helicopter
shot at first this one from Gordon Roland Gordon won our photo challenge
last week which was or foregrounds and this is another
fantastic one great leading line that leads from the foreground into the
background which is the castle in order to improve upon this photo I would like
to see if he could have tried to make the sky a little darker a little angrier
a little moody err it would really make this photo come alive
it might also look great in black and white as well this this would be a great
candidate for black and white but good job Gordon this is a great photo this
one is from javi sands half underwater half over the water the lines in the
sand provide leading lines this is a very original photo I like it this one
from Sam King another road that leads from the foreground to the background
great one Sam Robert blends out really nicely done photo but I'm going to say
that there isn't a lot here with leading lines it could be argued that these
reflections are leading lines that lead the eye from the foreground to the
background but regardless it's a beautiful photo and this one from Paul
Smith a gorgeous photo he used a long exposure to smooth out the waves on the
water and we have leading lines that are actually leading from the top these
clouds that point down towards the main subject of the photo which is the
lighthouse on the island I think this is a beautiful photo I love everything
about it the color the sky the pinks the blues it looks great and our winning
photo the moment you've all been waiting for is from dawn Trowbridge and this
photo was also taken in the Palouse region of Washington State which is
southeastern Washington I absolutely love this photo it's simple and I know
what to look at the road leads from the foreground
directly into the main subject of the photo which is the Red Barn beautiful
rolling grass fields a nice looking sky with some great blues in it
there's nothing I can criticize on this photo
it's it is a beautiful photo really picture book so dawn wins my Signature
Collection of landscape profiles which are available on my website at Tim's
photos calm and now I'm going to announce the photo challenge for this
coming week and the photo challenge is for framing and what I mean by framing
is where you find a composition where you find something that's naturally
there that you can use as a border either on the left side on the right
side and then shoot your main element of the photo through in between that border
or maybe it's something on the top and the bottom or maybe it's something on
all four sides where you're using trees or buildings or whatever you have
available to you as a frame and your main element of the photo is going to be
inside that frame so that competition will close at midnight on July the 25th
and you can enter this contest through our Facebook group which is called Tim's
photos comm Academy and hopefully I will see you inside the group good luck to
the next winner happy shooting talk to you soon