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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Nine: Composition -- putting it together > Leading lines, Castle Rock, Moab, Utah, 2006
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22-SEP-2006

Leading lines, Castle Rock, Moab, Utah, 2006

A line of big rocks marks the approach to this famous landmark just outside of Moab. I used a low vantage point to make them into a leading line that pulls the eye diagonally into the image from the lower left hand corner. The big butte of Castle Rock becomes its target at the upper right. The entire thrust of Castle Rock, which actually resembles a massive castle, rumbles through the middle of the image from right to left, eventually reaching a pair of tiny pinnacles. A brown ridge at left provides a third leading line, echoing the thrust of those rocks at its entrance. All of these leading lines help the eye move into and through the image. It is up to us to make sense out of them.

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Phil Douglis13-Apr-2007 20:12
Without the foreground rocks, the image is pointless. They draw the eye into the image, and create a scale incongruity when compared to the huge butte. Once again, composition creates more than aesthetics here, Chris. The way the image is organized defines the idea I am trying to express here.
Chris Sofopoulos13-Apr-2007 09:03
Whole composition here is wonderful Phil.
I like the diagonal line of the stones leading to the mountain.
Phil Douglis10-Jan-2007 20:19
That's why I write these captions, Jenene. I want to take my viewers into my mind as I made this image and tell them how and why I organized this image as I did. Glad it helps.
JSWaters10-Jan-2007 19:43
It's interesting to have you verbally explain what my eye was doing visually in this image. I imagine without that brown ridge on the left, my eye would have continued and dropped out of the image. Instead, I am gently directed back to the butte upper right.
Jenene
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