ABSTRACTION
Abstract images can be easy to make you can create good photos with simple items in your own home or around you some really weird but nice images can come out of simple things just like the glasses of water and stripped background which can be wrapping paper or an image from google images. Many things around us can be a great abstract photo all you have to do is find a way of making it look different or strange and try certain angles and ideas with what you have and an image like the glasses of water could be apart of your collection. as you can see in the image below many normal day things can be seen as an abstract image such as the chain and watches,the photo frames and the broken bike lock up pole.
for the most of my second set of images they have beens based upon water on certain objects although some of them are pigeons so the images are nature and water
After looking at Francesca Woodman I have thought about what my images will be based upon which is light and lines I think that these two themes go together well since the sun can come through certain objects creating lines and lines that are already there are able to shape the sun and light cutting it up or blocking it out. I decide to have the sone in the background for the majority of the images because it causes the image to go dark but you can see certain things that the sun outlines for example one of my images that was taken on the link is very dark but as it gets closer to the sun you can make out the stairs at the end of the link. I like this effect since it creates different shapes and lines in the image. Having most of my images like this interests me and i want to have the rest of my images like this but in different places like in a public place
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Abstract images are filled with many different elements but the way they are shown are within shapes,curves,colour. Most of the abstract images are of nature such as plants with different colours you get alot of different types of flowers and trees that also have certain shapes,curves and textures this can be seen as abstract since a majority of plants and trees aren't seen a lot so the mixture of colours and shapes can make the image standout from many others but to take an abstract image of even normal day things you have to look at the world in a different way and not as the plane world it can be.
These images above are a test of abstract images that I have tried
With this set of images I have looked at ways I can take different photos some of the images are based on photos I have already seen for example I was watching a video and on the video a photographer was using a glass ball to take pictures I think that this is a really nice image since it causes the back ground to flip upside down. some of the images are of plants and water on plants but unlike my previous photos I decided to put an affect on the camera so the image would come out differently I liked the affect it has on the images since it causes then to become even more vibrant of ave more detail to them. Some of the images aren't as good as the others and don't really look like an abstract image but some of them I was experimenting so they didn't come out as well as the other for example the red lips urinal to make that look better I could have taken it from a different angle and put a certain affect on the image to make it more interesting and different that what it actually looks like. The image of the full moon I took in my back garden I thought that it shows the night life for some having the light of the moon and for the others it can be the life of using the lighting of their house at the bottom of the image light coming from the windows is blurred so the moon stand out first so more people are able to notice the moon the outer circle around the moon looks as if it was bigger and started to implode
My aim for these set of images was to get images that where taken at a different time of the day so the fog and street lights stand out more and create a glare that will be able to shine through certain object for example the light at the top of the triangular sign
i really like how the images of the scooter and bmx rider turned out because the rest of the image was focused but the riders where blurred while moving i really like the effect I think I should have taken more images of the riders since I preferred the out come of then more than the others |
For abstraction I saw the images miss had showed us in class, I took inspiration and just kept taking photos. I found abstraction easier than anything else since I was able to use simple things such as light and shapes. I mainly looked at light and line which matched well. My favourite being one of the images above the rail and light in front of the football cage I don't know why but the image stands out to me more than any other. The reason for most images being black and white because I think they look better than the images original colour. I used light in the images because of the glare from them but they can also block certain objects out and cause something else to stand out, for example the picture of the BMX rider the flash from the camera hides the fact someone is holding the camera and this flash causes the rider to be a main focus of the image.