By now you will have noticed that a photograph is not just a static element or a flat image without history. If you stand before any image and analyze it, you will be surprised at the amount of information that you will be able to extract from it. Information on compositional techniques: Have you used the rule of thirds? The law of the horizon? The law of the gaze? Have you broken the rules or just the author of the image did not know? What does the color tell you? And the absence of it? ... As well as information on the type of photography: Documentary ?, Landscape? Or of the elements that appear in it. We always talk about how important it is to seek inspiration from others, to look for images, to watch movies and to look at photography. But like everything, it is not enough to look, you have to learn to read the meaning of the elements that appear in the image as if it were a novel to be able to squeeze them to the fullest. One of the many elements that you can find in an image is the vanishing point, which is used to add depth to the images.
WHAT IS THE VANISHING POINT?
The vanishing point helps us to deepen the image through real or imaginary lines that converge at an infinite point . You have seen the clearest example of a vanishing point thousands of times. It is a road or train tracks in a straight line, which as they move away seem to get closer to converge. That precise moment when the lines seem to cross, is what we call the vanishing point . However, they do not have to be just the “real” lines of existing lines in an image. Everything projects lines through their angles. Sometimes we will "see" them and sometimes we will only intuit them, but every element projects real or imaginary lines that allow us to create volume in the image. If you want to expand the information about the vanishing point and how to use it in your images, I recommend this article that explains it in detail. And as the theory is very good, but what really interests us are the images that it leaves behind, we will see a few examples of photographs with vanishing points1. THROUGH THE RHYTHM
This image not only generates a leak through the ground lines, but also or through the repetition of the arches, what we know as visual rhythm and which it uses to generate depth.2. THROUGH THE LINES
In this image you can see how the lines generate the idea of depth and leakage in the bridge. Through the fog that he suggests but does not teach, he gets a suggestive and mysterious image, where we do not see the flight of the lines but we sense it.3. NOT ALL LINES ARE STRAIGHT
4. CROUCH DOWN (AND DUCK AGAIN )
A lower view than usual will accentuate the leaks of your lines.5. VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE LINES
If you take advantage of the direction of the lines of your image are visible or invisible to indicate the route that the viewer must take to a point (of leakage) your image will gain more strength.6. DEPTH
See how the lines that take us to the vanishing point and the different planes make this image clearly three-dimensional to our eyes.7. VANISHING POINT OUTSIDE THE FRAME
To feed the imagination of fans of your image. Thus, if they want to follow the narration of your story, they will have to put something on their side, because to complete the image they will need to get out of it.8. »TONAL LEAKAGE» AND DEPTH
The ropes of this New York bridge are what stand out the most by creating a clear and marked leak towards the bottom of the image. However, also the different tones of the image created by the proximity and / or distance from us, create a sense of depth in the image.9. ARCHITECTURE
In architecture it is where you will find lines and vanishing points more easily or obviously.10. COMMON ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
Not all are buildings in architecture11. FOR NATURE LOVERS
Luckily for nature lovers, landscapes are also full of lines, and therefore leaks .12. COUNTER-CHOPPED POINT OF VIEW
Varying the point of view will provide you with interesting leaks such as those obtained in the following image by counter-cutting the tree trunks and their canopies.13. CHOPPED POINT OF VIEW
Another way to accentuate the perspective and the escape of the lines is to use a chopped view (from top to bottom).14. GEOMETRY AND ABSTRACTION
If you are looking for more abstract and interpretive images, the use of lines and vanishing points can help you express your ideas.15. ADD INTEREST AND IMPROVE YOUR IMAGE.
Without the vanishing point, it would be an image without much interest, but the combination of elements (the bird, the lines of the bridge, the horizon line ...) makes the image so much more interesting.16. HUMAN ELEMENT
Sometimes a vanishing 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.AND FINALLY…:
17. WEEKLY CHALLENGE 59: THE VANISHING POINT.
Yes, we also had this fantastic challenge. You can get inspired by seeing all the selected images here. If you have ever thought that you knew everything about something, I am convinced that in photography that thought will not happen to you. Luckily, it is impossible to get bored of this visual art because always, always, there is something new to learn If you did not know or had not deepened the use of lines or vanishing points in your compositions, now you have one more element with the one that enrich your images and your photographic imagination. And you know, if you liked it, it has given you some idea for future shots and you think it may be of interest to someone else, please share it on Google+, Facebook or Twitter (or 3 at a time ) Thank you very much