Exercise 16: Diagonal Lines

This past weekend Mutsumi and I went for a camping trip to Musandam, the tip of the peninsula sticking into the Strait of Hormuz.  Our timing was off.  Not only were daytime temperatures still uncomfortably hot, but the Sultan of Oman decided to have his own camping trip in the same area.  Consequently there were loads of uniformed security and many roads and access points were blocked.  It wasn't a total write off.  We spent one lovely night at Khawr an Najd and I was able to capture a few images for the next two exercises.

In the days before and after the trip, I took walks around the neighborhoods of Satwa and Karama, working class areas inhabited largely by South Asians and Filipinos.  A few of those images are included.

The first exercise was to capture images demonstrating diagonal lines.  This can be accomplished through perspective, Freeman suggests, of setting the lens at an angle to a straight line, as I have done here in the image of the alley, or of the stairs.  As the alley shot in particular makes clear, the diagonals provide a sense of depth.

The image of the bay in Musandam demonstrates quite well several diagonals all pointing toward a village left center.  With the image of the tree, I was trying to capture it's angle to the house but perhaps the limbs reaching back toward the building camouflage the angle at which the tree reaches into the road.

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