Diagonals
Different studies have been done into how people view images and many of them say that a natural way into an image is by traveling left to right and so a diagonal line starting at the bottom left and moving to the top right of an image can be quite useful and natural.
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Keep in mind that numerous diagonal lines leading in different directions and intersecting with one another can add a sense of action to your photo but adding too many diagonal lines might make it chaotic and confusing.
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As with both horizontal and vertical lines – diagonal lines that are repeated through out an image can create very effective patterns that can easily become the subject of a photograph themselves. A recently ploughed field or the ridges on a sand dune might be good examples of this – although technically this is probably more ‘converging lines‘ (another way to use lines in images).
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