Tips, Hints and Tricks #6

Today's topic is: Working Lines in Photography

The lines that can be found in images are very powerful elements that with a little practice can add dynamic impact to a photograph in terms of mood as well as how they lead an image’s viewer into a photo.
You have to consider three types of lines, ‘horizontal’, ‘vertical’ and ‘diagonal’. Each one has a different impact upon a photograph and should be looked for as you frame your shots.
Learning how to use lines in photography doesn’t just happen. It takes time and practice to become good at it.
A good way to practice is to go back through older images that you’ve taken and look for lines that worked well and those that didn’t.
Then next time you go out with your camera, before you frame your shot consciously ask yourself what lines are in front of you and how you might use them to add something to your next shot by working with them rather than against them. Here's one of my best shots. It's easy to find strong lines in train stations!!

Also ask yourself whether the lines form any interesting patterns that you might be able to accentuate to add a further layer of interest to the shot.

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Yashica Electro 35 GSN

The Electro 35 GSN (if black, it’s a GTN) is an all-automatic exposure (can be switched to manual) rangefinder camera. A CdS sensor settles the shutter speed. Inside the viewfinder and at the top of the camera, an orange arrow shaped indicator lamp warns for the lower speeds, inferior to 1/30th of a second and another one, red, indicates the overexposures. If you don’t see the arrows to light on , that means the exposure values are good. Also on the aperture ring, there is a little orange arrow on the left end, and there is a red one at the rigth end. So you can remember the good direction to turn the aperture ring to, according to the indicator arrows inside the finder or on the top. As everything is designed to ease the use of this camera, a scale with three symbols doubles the aperture ring: the sun, the cloud and the interior.
The only “speed” which can be selected is the “B”.(by disengaging the shutter ring from the « Auto » position and turning it).
Inside the viewfinder, a brilliant frame moves when focusing in order to correct the parallax error.
There is a little red button on the back of the camera marked « Battery Check ». When it’s pushed, a green indicator lamp placed on the right of advance lever turns on if the battery is in good condition.
Even if the camera is made (assembled) in Hong Kong, the 1,7 / 45mm is japanese and it’s an excellent product just like the others released by this brand.

This camera can be equipped with wide-angle or tele conversion lenses. Theses have conversion scales for distances. Thus, for an object situated at 1.50 m from the focal plane, this distance has to be readjusted to 0.90 m if the wide-angle lens is mounted to the camera.

Taken from: http://www.collection-appareils.fr/

I have one of these with me now, I have made a couple of shots but haven't yet used the whole film. I'll do updates on this subject later!

And it's all for now!