02 - Shapes

The shape of you

Following on from lines the second most fundamental element of a photo is shapes. Lines converge to form closed shapes and these shapes are the building blocks of your photo.

For this week's assignment: take photos with shapes as the main focus.

Before you shoot:

Try hard to see the world entirely in shape form. Notice how everything we see is just an arrangement of various shapes.

In the film “The Matrix” anyone who views the matrix from the outside can only see green cascading text. Eventually the viewer can only see a three dimensional image made from the text. Learning to see the world in shape form is the same process in reverse. It is training the eye to see the basic shapes (or code) that makes up the world.