{"id":679,"date":"2011-07-31T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:17:31","slug":"perspective-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/perspective-roads\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perspective and Lines….<\/h1>\n

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I’ve always liked vanishing points<\/strong> and perspective<\/strong>, not only photography but in art, and just in life when you’re wandering around the countryside.<\/p>\n

You can find them in arable fields, where the farmers leave long rows of potatoes or lines <\/strong>in the wheat.<\/p>\n

If you have an old Roman road<\/strong> near you, that’s probably long and straight too. The above is a road on the moors near Scammonden which is effectively straight for 4 miles, with just a mild undulation here and there. So when you get a half decent sky-scape, you can get some wonderful perspective <\/strong>shots – the road providing an amazingly absorbing vanishing point.<\/p>\n

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Now before you all go out and start shooting the middle of the road,<\/strong> be warned that you may well die if you don’t pay attention!<\/p>\n

The reason this road is suitable is the length of it, you can see cars either direction and spot cars well in advance.<\/p>\n

The technique is pretty much traditional landscape<\/strong>, just get your ND grad filters on the sky, get low down and all that jazz.<\/p>\n

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For the more faint hearted (or sensible) of you, there are lines on the side of the road <\/strong>which you can use in more safety – it’s unusual to find 3 lines like this though. Very odd, and creates something a little different for a foreground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And finally, if you find some junk on the road side, why not use it as a point of interest? This is a Nissan wheel cover thingy that was in the grass verge, so I just put it on the wall, made the wall and road have a shared vanishing point and moved the disc to sit in the foreground.<\/p>\n

So there’s something to be said for roads if you’re a perspective <\/strong>junkie – they may not be as pretty as waterfalls, but you can certainly use them in your shots if you’re missing a strong subject.<\/p>\n