We often superimpose a mental grid over things we photograph to help with composition. This week, let’s go literal.
By As photographers, we often envision grids over scenes we’re shooting to hone in on that just-so composition — goodness knows we’ve talked enough here about the rule of thirds, one of the simplest and most effective ways to use a grid to improve our photographs. Some of us also use grid overlays baked into our cameras and phones to help.
This week, let’s take the humble grid out of the shadows, and make it the star.
Photo by Michelle W.
The oceanfront boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey, is lined with restaurants, shops, playgrounds — and the brooding hulk of a long-abandoned casino, built during the town’s heyday as a posh seaside resort in the 1920s, and abandoned during the town’s heyday as a locus of economic woes and racial tensions in the 1970s. Looking through the casino’s skeleton down the stretch of now-revitalizing boardwalk is to look through a stark grid of exposed girding that frames land and sky with steel beams.
This week, make a grid the centerpiece of your photo. Next week, they can lapse back into our photographic subconscious, but this week, let’s give them some time in the sun!
Never a dull moment in the theme category. That’s quite a grid you caught in your photo.
janet
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here is my grid: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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A grid of reflections:
https://insellos.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Grids are all around me, so many skyscrapers in Frankfurt, Germany.
Here you go: https://mattvonp.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Have some grid shots in my shoe-box. I’ll give it a go with this one: http://wp.me/p3gqMf-p0
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Why not use a grid gallery? 😉 No… I prefer tiled galleries. Great photo! 😀
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Windows and walls make a good “Grid”ed pattern and good frame as well for a cityscape, here’s my contribution this week from Nuremberg (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary):
https://agent909.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/grid-window-in-nuremberg-castle-germany-2/
https://agent909.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/grid-window-in-nuremberg-castle-germany/
https://agent909.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/grid-hungary-parliament-house/
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Strangely, I keep jumping ahead of you guys in my posts. I just did a “grid” photo and before that a monochrome gallery. I might have to pass this week. 🙂
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To grid or not to grid? When to be on or off the grid? Good question! http://scillagrace.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-on-or-off-the-grid/
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Great theme. Here’s my entry…http://steve-says.net/2015/09/18/fridayfoto-if-carlsberg-made-bathrooms/ Have a great weekend!
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I really thought I wouldn’t have anything for this, but I was surprised. https://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/grid-weekly-photo-challenge/
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Once more I didn’t think I had anything then found a bunch. Nice Challenge!
https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/wpc-grid/
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Hi Michelle, you have a great topic. I adore your photo.
Here is my entry. http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/18/the-daily-post-weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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New York City architecture is ruled by rigid grids. But often the result is surprisingly fluid… http://windagainstcurrent.com/2015/09/18/grid/
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Grid | Rotterdam http://jaspersmits.net/2015/09/18/grid-rotterdam/ jaspersmits.net
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I chose a natural grid: a forest canopy framing a jumbo jet.
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Here are three gird views from the archives – http://wp.me/p3CFsE-1Zj
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Thank you again Michelle for another great challenge. I tried for a “boxy, but good” scenario …
http://wp.me/p1fzXa-19Z
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Very interesting challenge this week..
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interesting perspective to look at some of your blog posts with the gallery style.. to see the network of grid or.. design of grid between the photos/images/tiles.. 🙂 http://byswav.com/2015/09/18/original-art-from-the-heart-of-ireland-made-in-laois/
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I took this photo with the use of analogue camera in 2002, while driving around ring of Kerry in Ireland..
http://byswav.com/2015/09/19/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
~ Enjoy!
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The downside of the grid.
http://wp.me/p16tta-IA
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Great theme with an interesting twist – in the literal sense! Here is my version of “Grid”: https://thephotoseye.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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The grid is not in front of us!
https://lespetitspasdejuls.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
Enjoy!
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Nice example. Here’s mine https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Great challenge! Not so easy… here is my Grid anyway 🙂
https://pilvipouta.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/grid-the-daily-post/
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Great post / prompt and photo Michelle!
I literally just sat on a wet and windy balcony to grab this shot and added some music…
http://andytownend.com/2015/09/18/grid/
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Here’s my grid photo, a night shot.
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/the-barcode-night-photo-from-ekebergasen/
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here’s my entry for this week:
https://thriftyat60.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Here’s my entry. Mucis. A grid of five parallel lines.
https://jaapkroon.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Love the black and white-alteration, Michelle. It enhances the grid.
Here are mine: https://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/
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Mine: http://stenoodie.com/2015/09/18/weekly-photo-challenge-grid/ 🙂
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