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3- The presence of expressive movement lines
In a successful photograph, all lines, all masses and every arrangement of elements must come together to lead the eye towards the point of attraction. Perhaps the use of strong expressive lines is the best means in the hand of the photographer to link the parts of his image together.

Look at picture No. (3) again, and notice how the upper slope starts from the lower corner to the right of the picture, and flows curving towards the upper corner to the left of it, where it ends at the top of the central pillar suddenly and with maximum force. He also noticed how the rest of the columns start small to the right and gradually grow as they approach the center across the main movement line, as they reach their maximum there. These strong lines of movement for the columns and the slope, removed the inertia that could have resulted from the presence of the point of attraction in the center of the image, and thus made the image successful.

In picture No. (4) the point of attraction is the person on the far right to the bottom, and this point is not interesting in itself, except that the strong flow of lines, through which the eye leads the entire space of the picture, left a sense of movement and rhythm instead of the weakness of the point of attraction. It can be said that without these lines there would be no image in the true sense.

In order to make sure that the eye will turn towards the point of attraction and not in another direction, there is a way to make that point the most illuminated or brightest point. This matter sometimes requires the intervention of the photographer when endorsing and printing, and this is something we will learn later. The eye always turns automatically and unconsciously towards the light.
If the lines of movement in the image coincide, or are parallel to the movement of the eye towards the light, the expression of your image will be greatly enhanced.

Fonts may be fake. In this case, her expression may have been more effective. Look at picture (7). Do you manage to prevent yourself from looking in the direction of the eye's gaze in the corner of the picture?

When using lines to build the movement of the image, you must pay attention to stopping those lines inside the image area, and not letting them escape outside, and there are several ways to do that. If the lines are light in color, you can shade them gradually as they approach the edge of the picture, and so the eye will stop there in a nice way. The same process can also be done with the colored slides by placing a material that shades the area where you want to stop looking. You can also use a normal frame to stop the lines.
In the picture (8), the two columns in the foreground make a frame for the picture naturally, and the shade gradually becomes lighter as we approach the point of attraction represented by the highly luminous building.
This picture is a good example of using the natural frame when there are no strong lines that lead the gaze towards the point of attraction.