In a previous post I mentioned using diagonal lines in images. Now let’s look at converging lines.
Converging lines guide our eyes and help us focus on the subject. They also enhance image depth. Here are a few examples.
Below there’s an image of a wedding venue. The rows of tables create converging lines leading to the screen in the background and which shows an engagement image of a wedding couple.
Wedding venue interior. NYC. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Sometimes converging lines show depth or height. Sometimes they can converge to create angles and triangles.
In the image posted below, the rows of chairs, the walls and the images on the walls create converging lines. The image was taken on World AIDS Day 2018, at the OCCCA opening night of Kurt Weston‘s photo exhibition, Remember: An AIDS Retrospective.
Alina Oswald is a writer, photographer and educator documenting the AIDS pandemic and the LGBTQ+ community. She is a member of the Undetectable flash collective, Arts Editor of A&U Magazine--America's AIDS Magazine, and columnist at Out IN Jersey Magazine. She's also the author of Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography of award-winning, legally blind photographer and HIV/AIDS activist Kurt Weston. She often get to talk about HIV and AIDS, photography, and women empowerment as a guest on Ron B's No Boundaries show, at MNN, and HIV-inspired art openings, such as Kurt Weston's show, Remember: An AIDS Retrospective, at OCCCA. Alina Oswald's work has appeared in national and international publications, as well as in New York City shows and galleries, including Fresh Fruit Festival at Leslie-Lohman Museum, Postcards from the Edge at Visual AIDS, and Soho Photo Gallery. She also teaches photography and covers portraits, editorials, events, and promotional photography, as well as nature and the environment. Contact her at alinaoswald.com.
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