EX88 Continuation

The Gestalt Design Principle of Continuation asserts that the human eye follows lines, curves, or a sequence of shapes in order to determine a relationship between elements.

You can create lines that lead the viewer through images with some good imagination and some hard work.

What you need to look for is how to continue the viewers eye via different objects if you can.

Perhaps a beach leads the viewer into the distant clouds.

Perhaps that line of flowers takes the viewer to a branch that leads the viewer somewhere else.

Notice how your eye follows lines, curves, colours and sequences of shapes to join them together to form a viewing path.

Essentially you are creating pathways for the viewer. Ones that only exist in your photograph, that may not exist in reality. You are connecting unrelated objects together and making them work together.

For those of you interested in the science of it all, here is a good technical article. Download it here.

This weeks exercise is about trying to create visual pathways for the viewers of your photographs that join physically unconnected objects, lines, shapes, colours and pathways together into a longer line.

In this photograph the light on the grass forms a line that takes you towards the tree from the lower left hand corner to the right. You then zig zag back along the line of trees, and then back again along the mountains and then the left right pattern continues into the sky.

Lines caused by the edges of the wind blown sand joins a clump of grass with a dead branch to hopefully make the photograph more cohesive.

Here is the link to post your images to in the forum: https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex88-cohesive-11105072