Abstract Photos- Focus on Life Week 18
'You
like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape
or abstract.
You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read
it. The work of art-sculpture
or painting-forces
your eye.' Clement
Greenberg
Sally's prompt for the focus on life challenge this week is Abstract! Woohoo! I had no clue when I read that word what I would be doing. Sally had some suggestions and told us about making a light trail in our photos. Fun stuff, so that is the first thing I tried. But then she suggested that we distort our photos for more abstract designs- I think I could play around in photoshop all day trying out different things!. So this first photo is a distorted light trail taken right off my front porch.
But my own epiphany came when I took my camera out on my weekly Focus on Life Walk- I took a LOT of pictures, and when I was almost home I stopped to shoot into the window of the local bike shop. Ummm... have you ever tried to shoot a picture through a window? Well, there is a little something called a reflection. The window is right on a busy street, so there were cars going by and folks walking by too. These pictures seem pretty abstract to me! Even though I know what these are photos of, I have a hard time figuring them out. Yes, it's been photoshopped...
The local hair salon was even cooler!
Another abstract trick? Simply laying a photo on its side can do wonders to make it all quite confusing! Start here for more abstract fun.
11 comments:
love what you have done! The bikes are so wonderful!
Laurie I really like your light trail pic. I wasn't brave enough to try it yet but I want to down the road. I'm not very adventurous with my camera but I am working on it.
That bike though the window shot is great. Super job with Sally's prompt.
Very cool photos! I love the bicycles!
I admit I didn't even want to attempt the light trail, I thought too much work for me. I do like the beauty shop photos! Oh and the last one I didn't know which way to turn my head, LOL!
I love that bike picture! the bikes look like they are on the street .. so interesting how the reflection folds back on itself! that's awesome!
Looks like you had a good time playing with your photos and the results are super cool!
These are great - especially the light one. The reflection ones really make you think and look at things and the side view of the tree - that's wild. Love all of these!
Oh, great ideas! I particularly love that first one, I'm going to have to try that on my camera.
Really great shots! I'm impressed with your interpretation of this weeks prompt. Very clever. And I like how you rotated the last photo to bring out the abstract in it!
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