Leading Lines


  • Leading lines is a composition tool that proves to be very effective in drawing the viewers attention to a specific point in the picture.
  • Photographers may use leading lines to draw the viewers attention on to a certain focal point or a vanishing point in the frame.
  • Symmetry is when you can put a straight line through an image or object, and fold the image or object over that line to get an exact matching half. 
  • If you use your leading lines as a symmetry line, then the picture would come to a balanced point where each side is the same leading to a focal point. 

  • The photographer that took this picture used the hand rails and the stairs of the spiral stair case as leading lines to the vanishing point in the middle. This composition is not symmetrical because the spacing of hand rails gets narrower as they go down. 
  • I shot this picture by standing to the side of the mirror so you could see more of the track lines and the handrail.
  • I used the lines on the track and the handrail that goes around the track for my leading lines.
  • The focal point in the picture is the the person who took the photo, since all the lines lead to him.
  • No this composition is not symmetrically balanced because either side is different than the other  

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