This assessment is designed to demonstrate the insights gained since the start of the course. In particular the use of points, lines and shapes, and the role that perspective has in portraying their use to creat images that are balanced and classically attractive.
This graveyard in Leeds was closed many years ago and was at risk of being cleared and turned to grass. Some dedicated locals campaigned to save it and good job too. Its an extraordinary place. It contains the graves of 180,000 people, many of them buried in 'Guinea' graves. For one pound and a shilling your mother, husband or child could be interred with 20 or 30 strangers in a single grave. For the fee the names of the dead were added to a communal headstone. Without this option the poor faced only an unmarked place of rest.
Due to the run down nature of the graveyard it offered many oopportunities to explore the role of persective and shapes.
Diagonals
The diagonal is created by the camera angle which also reinforces the impression of depth.
Single point dominating the composition
Whilst not the only point in the composition, the interest in the cross, broken from the headstone, is of such dramatic interest that it dominates the scene.
Curves
The space between the tree, its branch and the curve formed by the headstones form a circle near the centre of the image.
Verticals
This image contains both the true verticals of the headstones, and the perceived vertical of what in reality, is a horizontal road.
Two kinds of implied triangle
Two points
Whilst of two different sizes, the monument and the cross dominate the image.
Pattern
Using a telephoto length lens and a small aperture it was possible to create a pattern from the continuous line of 'Guinea' graves.
A crop was still required to exclude anything which detracted from the illusion that the pattern continues beyond the edge of the frame.
Combination of Horizontal and Vertical lines
The Hozontal line is created from the continuous line of headstones.
A Landscape format would have increased the strength of the Hozizontal, but this would have been to the detriment of the Vertical feel of the image. The choice would need to made at the time of capturing the image, or if the image quality were good enough, through careful cropping to obtain the desired effect.
Distinct shapes
There ia a clear distinction between the shapes in this image which causes the eye to be drawn from one to the other. The low camera angle increases the impact on the composition of the much smaller flower elements.
Single point dominating the composition
Several points in a deliberate shape
The two monuments, the one in the foreground and the other in the background, were positioned to create a triangle with the broken pillar.
Curve
Here the curve of the railing support is used to point at the headstones standing in the sunlight.
Distinct irregular shapes
In this badly damaged area of the cemetary a range of shapes can be identified including points, curves, rectangles and squares.
Curves
The dry ground and sunlight combine to imply a circle around the front of the collection of graves.
Distinct irregular shapes
Due to the tumbledown nature of this scene a number of irregular implied shapes are created. These include triangles, rectangles, diagonals, and curves.
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