Now that you’ve noticed that a photo isn’t just a static element or a flat image with no history, if you stop at an image and analyze it, you’ll be surprised at how much information you can extract from it. Techniques: Have you used the rule of the thirds, the law of the horizon, the law of the gaze ?, did you break the rules or did the author of the image simply ignore them ?, what does color tell you?What about his absence? In addition to information about the type of photography: Documentary?Landscape? Or the elements that appear in it.
We always talk about the importance of looking for inspiration in others, looking for images, watching movies and focusing on photography, but like everything else, looking is not enough, you have to learn to read the meaning of the elements that appear in the image as if it were a novel to pressure them to the maximum.
- One of the many elements you can find in an image is the escape point.
- Which is used to add depth to the images.
The escape point helps us to give depth to the image through real or imaginary lines that converge at an infinite point. The clearest example of a escape point has been seen thousands of times. It is a road or railway in a straight line that, as they move away, seems to approach until it converges. This very moment when the lines seem to cross is what we call the escape point.
However, it should not be just the “real” lines. Some of the existing lines in an image. Everything projects lines through its angles, sometimes we will and sometimes we will do it only intuitively, but each element projects real or imaginary lines that allow us to create volume in the image.
If you want more information about the leak and how to use it in your images, I recommend this article that explains it in detail.
And because the theory is good, but what we’re really interested in is the images it leaves behind, are we going to see some examples of photographs with escape points?
This image not only generates a leak through the lines of the ground, but also through the repetition of the arcades, what we call the visual rhythm and that it uses to generate depth.
In this image you can see how the lines generate the idea of depth and leakage in the bridge, through the fog that suggests but does not teach, you reach a suggestive and mysterious image, where you do not see the leakage of the lines. but one intuitively.
A lower-than-usual view will accentuate leaks in your lines
If you take advantage of the direction of the lines in your image, whether visible or invisible, to indicate the path the viewer should take to a point (with leaks), your image will gain strength.
Notice how the lines that lead us to the escape point and the different planes make this image clearly three-dimensional to our eyes.
To feed the imagination of the admirers of your image. So, if they want to follow the narrative of your story, they will have to do something from them, because to complete the image they will have to leave it.
It is the strings of this New York bridge that stand out the most creating a clear and marked leak to the background of the image, however, the different tones of the image created by the proximity and / or distance of us, also create a feeling of depth in the image.
In architecture, this is where you will find lines and escape points most easily or clearly.
Aren’t they all buildings in architecture?
Fortunately for nature lovers, landscapes are also full of lines and therefore leaks?
Changing the view will give you interesting leaks like the ones in the following image when cutting tree trunks and their canes.
Another way to accentuate perspective and drainage line is to use an uneven point of view (top to bottom).
If you’re looking for more abstract and interpretive images, using escape lines and points can help you express your ideas.
Without the escape point it would be an image of little interest, but the combination of elements (the bird, the bridge lines, the horizon?) It makes the image much more interesting.
Sometimes a leak point alone may not be interesting enough to “justify” your image. Try to include a human or animal element in the frame, you will see how the interest of your composition increases.
Yes, we also had this fantastic challenge. You can be inspired by viewing all the selected images here.
If you ever thought you knew everything about something, I am convinced that in photography that thought will not go through your head, fortunately it is impossible to get bored with this visual art because there is always something new. to learn If you don’t know or haven’t delved into the use of lines or escape points in your compositions, now you have one more element to enrich your images and your photographic imagination.
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