Stationery photography: Leading lines using a macro lens

Lines....

they make a picture look good. The first 3 photos deal with stationery photography. Let us see how.

The above picture has a white thumbtack on a red background. The subject in the photograph is the thumbtack, but unfortunately it has a distracting red background. However, is there something that indicates that the thumbtack is the subject? A leading line pointing/leading towards the thumbtack could have helped.

I just had a red card paper and I used it in the above picture. I had a few more colored card papers, that were placed one above the other that created a line, just like the picture below

Although, the 2 pins are the main subject(s). A leading line was created (by overlapping the card papers at some point), but it is not really a leading line because it is kinda far from the subject(s).

Point: If you don't have a leading line you create one.

Let us see another example below, this one is closer to the subject(s).

This one was much better, and it won an award in a photography competition too. The choice of colors (red and green) could have helped too as they are complemetary in nature according to a color wheel.

So much for leading lines; generally lines add to the beauty of a picture and they are almost everywhere.

The next 2 pictures, though not about stionery, focus on lines

The below flower has lines on it's trumpet like body

Here is a denim button, that is the subject. It has leading lines going near it, but the macro beautifully captures the texture of the denim that has a lot of lines.

If you can show such things you should.

Stuff used:

Camera: Canon 1200D

Lens: Tokina f2.8/100 mm macro lens

Thumbtacks

card papers of different colors

A pair of denims

Internet: search for color wheel