When the talk leans towards leading at Disney’s Hollywood Studies, it is usually about leading men or women. Today, however, it is about leading lines. Photographers use leading lines to give a photo depth and/or to “lead” a viewer’s eyes to something of interest.
My first example is the hallway you leave from after riding on the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and going through the Rock Around the Shop store. I really liked how the lines converged and the texture of the bricks along the walls. The posters overhead giving a nice added splash of color and shapes.
Leading lines in the hallway leaving the Rock Around the Shop.
Nikon D700/Tokina 16-28mm, 1/50s, f/2.8, ISO 1000, EV +0.3, 16mm focal length.
The second example is not so straight forward (see what I did there?). Here, the “cars” create the leading lines to the big drive-in movie screen inside the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater restaurant.
Rows of cars leading to the Big Screen inside the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater restaurant.
Nikon D750/Tokina 16-28mm, 1/4s, f/8, ISO 10000, EV +1.0, 16mm focal length.
In both of these examples, I used straight lines. Curved lines can also lead. Anyone have any examples of curved leading lines? Shoot me a link in a Comment below and I will share them in a future blog post.
Scott: I finally found the picture I remember with good curved leading lines. It was posted in Lisa’s blog dated Mar 14, 2012 and titled “Saratoga Springs Leading Lines”. Here’s the link: http://land.allears.net/blogs/photoblog/2012/03/saratoga_springs_leading_lines.html#comments
Scott replies: Leave it to Lisa to find it!