Here's a great spot, cobbled streets are always interesting aren't they particularly when they're
bordered by some lovely old buildings like we've got going on here,
and when you're stood right in the middle of the street
go into the middle Jayne, that's it there.
You've got quite a nice shot,
looking straight down there as with the Priory you've got a natural leading line
coming on down here leading you into the street
but it could be improved massively because it is a very very powerful
leading line
already going on down the edge of the picture, if you come over to the side here
and come forward a little bit Jayne
here you go, about there you've got these double yellow lines, just sort of running off up
the street and the curb stone, just there.
Now they can be used to put a line into the picture
which will give you an awful lot more power, so what i would suggest is put the
camera down,
very very low, we're going on the ground again, right inbetween
the yellow lines and the curb stone. And then just sort of tilt it back up
so that the lines are coming in trhough the bottom of
the shot but we've also got a bit more of the buildings going on here.
so that's okay, if I just move to one side
you can see you can look of down the shot at these
lines at the bottom leading you into it, but
simply by rotating your camera just a bit, i'll come in closely you can see
let's say the cameras like this, if you just turn it
a few degrees to the right then what will happen
is these lines will start to come in on the left of the picture
rather than either side so let's just turn the camera to the right a bit,
which will include a little more of the wall. Now the lines are more on the
left
we've got the shot bordered by this wall,
the lines are taking you off down the street which you can see kind of
i don't know somewhere around here
which is more the top left third of the shot. So that's a really really simple way
of using a leading line and just thinking yourself through the movements,
but be subtle with them if you go too far
it can start to look rubbish for example
if you turn the camera again just a little more to the right
then what's gonna happen is you've still got a leading line, and the curb edge is
going to be strong
but I'd say there's too much wall going on, the picture isn't the wall,
it's of the pretty little cobbled street. So if you just bring it back again
you can have a last look at that
and i'll just step out of the way for you, so you can look at the picture as a whole.
I think you'll agree that's a lot better now let's see if we can find something
we don't have to grovel on the ground.
yes i know i look like i'm posing but i promise you there are no girls around or
anything like that.
I also promise you we wont go grovelling on the ground. As we were walking through somewhere
I spotted something and thought
I gotta show you this it's so simple and it's so cool. Suppose you're shooting a portrait
of someone, suppose you're out with your husband or wife, partner, girlfriend, boyfriend
whatever it may be
and you want to take a really dynamic shot of them, well
okay we're walking in a park and we've got this lovely old sort of monument building here
which i'm not altogether sure what it is but it is lovely.
right so if you get them to lean against the wall we got this
strong strong stone going on here which can become a
leading line in itself it's all about you moving your camera around.
so if your model is leaning against the wall like this
then again you get down very very low on the ground witht rhe camera
fairly close to the edge of this stone work
you can use this stone work here as a leading line coming up to the face of your model
like that, okay so that's not particularyl brilliant
but just by asking your model to move very very slightly you can convert their
body into another leading line.
So if i just move myself like that and then put my arm against the wall
and lean in like this immediately you have got a line coming up from where my body is
as well as
this stone work, so there you go it's just another dynamic kind of a shot
and you've created two leading lines in one go come on let's go and find what i was
gonna show you in the first place.