I snapped this on my way home from Stan C. today in the snow. You can see a train in the distance but it was stationery at the Dundas/Hale crossing where there's construction going on. No photographer was harmed in the taking of this shot. ;0)

Great shot Sean!  

Took me a while but here is my submisssion.

Do these count as converging lines??

Patti, Using a little longer lens would have helped and shotting between the guard rails would have lower you angle. like this. Doug 

Good call Patti I went back and had a look too. 

Good thought Bryan. I went rooting through my Zubicks photos and found a couple.

I wouldn't mind heading back there sometime for another shoot. Who knows what rusty metal shapes there might be now.

Here's one from the Zubicks shot last winter.

another from Port Stanley

Hey, sometimes a challenge is looking among your images saying: Do I do this.??? and the great answer is yes... here are some of my convering lines... Some subject like airport and airplanes are surronded by lines... some subject like a bodyscape are less likely to be... nut here they all are.

At Frankfurt airport

At Orlando airport

On board a 747

Bodyscape in a barn, the wood made me dio it....

Doug,

I'm not sure this qualifies. It's a shot taken from the Highbury overpass at Trafalgar back in the spring. How is one best to attempt taking these shots from a height when you can't safely get down to ground level as in your great shot?Not much I could do about the line running across the photo. Hitch me to the whipping post and let me have a good lashing on this one.

How Converging Lines can be used to Enhance your Photograph

When creating your landscape shot, one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for is to incorporate in their photograph converging lines.

You can find converging lines in many places, the bricks on a wall in a narrow passageway, train tracks, girders on a bridge, roads, fence lines, or power lines are just a few examples.  

What you want to achieve is an angle where as you look into the distance the lines come together.

Lets use a train track as an example of how to position yourself (a word of caution if you try this ... always look around you to make sure there is no trains in front or behind you), a good example would be to position the tracks dead centre and symmetrically in the shot.

Another would be to step to one side of the tracks and let them run diagonally through your frame from a lower corner to the opposite upper corner.  With this type of a shot you will end up with a more dynamic shot.  Symmetrical and vertical placement of the lines can be a strong part of the image, but diagonal lines convey movement.

A wider angle lens can totally change the impact of a shot with converging lines, as the wide angle creates a greater sense of depth to your image.  What you want to do when creating such an image is to draw the eye deep into the shot.  Don’t forget to ask yourself as you are framing the image where is the most effective position to frame this?

Make sure the point of convergence is not outside of your shot as you are leading the eye out of your image, this will leave the shot unbalanced and feeling incomplete.

Sometimes adding something of interest at the point of convergence can make your image more interesting, a person at the end of the passageway, a train stopped at the top or the base of your image, these things in the distance will help draw the eye deep into the shot.  

If you have an interesting image that you would like to share with the members that is an example of Converging Lines please post it.  Doug - Stan C. Reade Photo.