Exercise: Curves

For this exercise, i had to take 4 photographs representing curves. Often curves can give a sense of movement and direction, similar to diagonal lines. I tried to emphasise this using my photographs.

Here I took a photograph looking up at an ornament hanging from the ceiling. It features curved lines/ spirals with in more curved lines/spirals both going in different directions and of different sizes giving a strange sense of movement, almost in two opposite directions. The object and the background were both shades of the same colour, and so i added a black and white filter to this photograph to give a greater contrast in the colours, giving it a nicer overall look, I feel.

The curve of a road. I stood to the left of the road when taking this picture, so i could around the corner slightly, helping to create a curve.

Here I tried to think of something a bit different to photograph, that wasn't such an obvious choice when thinking of curves. I took a picture of fork. I placed the fork facing down to make the curve in its body appear greater. There is still a sense of direction/ movement within this object. The curve travels down the handle, and up to the base of the fork, back down to the surface it is resting on. I like the way the light hits the fork in this picture, giving a slight highlight to the highest point of the curve emphasising the curve. I also like the slight shadow underneath, on the dull white/grey surface.

Here I noticed  curved pattern on the pavement. The curves here going in different directions create a swirling motion. Your eye is drawn from the centre of the one pattern ( to the right of the frame) in an outward wavy direction, following the lines. The water marks on the flooring, in the cracks help draw attention to this, making it slightly bolder. However i think this photograph could be improved if it were a dry day, and these marks were not there.