Castel Sant'Angelo by Night, Rome

Photograph Copyright ©2012 Loo Yen Yeo. All Rights Reserved.

Concept: Curves (relationship to straight lines); Curves (implication); Multiple points (line dynamics)

Description: The curving sweep of the Tiber's northern bank accelerates the eye towards the sodium-lit ramparts of Castel Sant'Angelo, the brightest-lit patch of the photograph, and then across Ponte Sant'Angelo (perpendicular to the curve's tangent at that point) to the southern bank.

Title: Sant'Angelo - a beacon in Tiberian night

Coniglio Disossato, Osteria de Borg, Rimini, Italy

Photograph Copyright ©2012 Loo Yen Yeo. All Rights Reserved.

Concepts: Multiple points (line dynamics); Multiple points (implied shape)

Description: Food is another passion of mine, and this cold dish of boned stuffed rabbit in a ginger sauce was perfect on a hot summer evening (it scored a 10 out of 10). The black circle of pitted olive on the right is the point that captures the eye first, then the one on the left creating a left-ward line of movement that tugs against the bottom of the frame. The angle of the plane of the two black points then leads the eye to the leftmost slice of carrot then to the top one, forming a quadilateral. The orange-coloured points of carrot imply a circle, framing the main content.

Title: Star rabbit

03.02 Multiple points

Having two or more points increases the complexity of the image immeasurably over that of a single point because the eye naturally then wants to move between the points, establishing a line. Having several points therefore creates:

Line dynamics - through the factors of relative position, distance, angle, direction, and relationship with the frame.

Implied shapes - if there are three or more points, and the eye is led to flow around the points in sequence to closure.