EXERCISEPatternYour assignment is to find and shootpatterns. Any series of lines createsa pattern.

Look above your head, down atthe ground, as well as straight ahead.Try to find subjects that are primarilypatterns, not just ones that have somepattern in them. So far as possible,have the pattern fill the frame of thephotograph. Try to have nothing inthe photograph except pattern.

Though your assignment is toshoot pattern, you may want to con-sider some of the other qualities ofline as well, such as direction or struc-ture. See if you can add them into aphotograph without losing sight ofyour primary goal. Use these otherqualities to strengthen the pattern,not to detract from it. For example,you may want to use perspective soyour pattern recedes into the dis-tance, suggesting direction. Or youmay find a series of small patternscontained in a large one, creatingstructure.

Remember to keep your camera onthe point of departure setting (f!6 at1/125 of a second), and to shoot inopen sunlight. The rest is up to you.

Student photograph by Allison Page.

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...Experience the illusion of motion in this vivid image, created by the vertical lines of fences and their horizontalshadows. Do you get a sense of overlapping fences pumping up and down ? Can you feel how the shadows and stairsproduce a nearly circular sweep, up to our left and back down on the right? (Student photograph.)

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Can you distinguish line from texture in this shot? (Student photograph by Han June Bae.)

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