Exercise 18: Horizontal and Vertical Lines

This exercise requires me to take four images showing horizontal lines and four images showing vertical lines, with no overlapping subject within each group.

This is probably one of the most difficult exercise. It is not difficult to find lines, but usually there are too many things on the background so that it doesn't stand out. It applies especially to horizontal lines.

Image 1-4 have some repeatable pattern to emphasize the vertical-ness.

Image 1: 50mm f/6.3 ISO 1600 at 1/25s

Image 2: 52mm f/5 ISO 400 at 1/40s

Image 3: 50mm f/4.5 ISO 800 at 1/50s

Image 4: 70mm f/5 ISO 1600 at 1/160s

Horizontal lines are so much harder. Sometime the image is really not as clean and it mixed with some elements of verticals and diagonals. For example, the emphasis in image 5 is the contrast of the light against the dark building, but there are also some vertical element going on. The tree lines are very noisy in image 6, so the wall and the sun does not stand out as strong as it should be ideally. Image 7 has multiple horizontal line in the front and in the background. However, the line implied by the stair case is stronger so that I would think the image is more "up" then horizontal. At this point I really can't see a single situation where the horizontal element is dominating the image. I would like to see one if there is an example.

Image 5: 50mm f/3.5 ISO 1600 at 1/60s