Abstraction
Many people argue what abstraction actually is. Abstraction is a form of photography that can make an ordinary picture incredibly interesting in a unique way. Or it may just be some you personally see differently than someone else would.
Abstraction can be interpreted in a number of ways, whether it be merely un-focusing the lens or capturing an object in a different light to make it appear as something different. It's pretty much all down to you. There has been many an argument as to what Abstraction really is. The truth is, no one really knows? Abstraction can mean one thing and something else to another, like anything, it's what you personally make of it.
Ab·strac·tion The act of abstracting or the state of having been abstracted. b. An abstract concept, idea, or term. c. An abstract quality. 2. Preoccupation; absent-mindedness. 3. An abstract work of art. By the end of this I hope to have created several good final pieces based around the abstraction genre. I feel like I'm focusing on the idea of water/reflection and all the different sorts of things you can put in water (i.e dye, oil, powder/sherbet) |
Ryan BushRyan Bush is a fine-art photographer and has been for more than 16 years and from all those years discovered abstraction and Earth's natural beauty.
He likes to take advantage of everyday surroundings which makes the idea of Abstraction all the more easy. |
HOMEWORK
Pierre CordierPierre was born in Brussels in January 1933 and considered 'the pioneer of the chemigram and of its development as a means of artistic expression'.
While writing a message in nail varnish on some photographic paper and later called the technique a "Chemigram", the process of using paint (varnish, oil) and elements of photography (fixer, emulsion, developer). He noticed if he left them out to develop then images will appear. Mon numéro de tentative un:I really liked the out come of the photograph, so decided to create one myself. I wasn't personally inspired by someone to make this, but found it quite interesting to look at and make for myself. I done this specific one on photoshop. Overlapping an ordinary picture of a tree with a photogram, editing it afterward so that it looked how I wanted it to. I don't really like this image and definitely wont be using this sort of technique for my final piece, but am glad that I experimented with the different sorts of effects that you can achieve from photoshop. I have also learnt some skills from using photoshop which I may want to use on my final piece when it comes to editing the images I have taken myself. |
Some of his workWe took into account Pierre's invention and decided to create some of our own, which didn't take very long at all.
Emerging these two images together via photoshop only took a few minutes due to the photograms being previously made for us to use as we wish. |
Final Project Preperation
My Aim:
I really like water and want to incorporate water in with my final pieces. I've always liked it when oil doesn't mix in with water and the slow movement of ink running through water. I feel that I can come up with some good images myself with oil and ink. I've also taken the time to look at some professional photographers who have worked with some of the ideas that I want to.
I really like Alberto Seveso and Rebecca Sims as all of their images are quite abstract and peculiar - something that relates to the topic that we are currently working on. Here are some things that I personally done myself and some of the research that I found out by looking at some of the photographer's that I was 'inspired' by: Alberto Seveso
s an Italian Artist , who specialises in illustration, graphic design and photography. In this particular instance he's combined ink and water together, which I personally like the look of. He was exploring/experimenting with dropping different variations of ink into water, equipped with a high-speed camera to capture the fast movement of ink in water.
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Some personal attempts:Here I experimented with the idea of oil and water (with some glitter). I really like this idea of combining water and oil together to create this abstract image. The way the oil magnifies different parts of the picture/books I have place below it. One thing that really needs some work on is the lighting. It's not as lit up as I would really like it to be.
Rebecca SimsI really like some of her work. The way she has used water and oil together really intrigues me and is something that I'm really interested in.
The way she has manipulated the oil to come up with these interesting images She specifically chose to create these series of images as she really liked the colour |
Here are the series of images that I created myself, using a fast shutter speed on a regular canon camera. Using really diluted acrylic paint, I then dropped large amounts of water into a jar full of water.
I really like the outcome of these images, especially with the effect that's now on them. With the pictures I then went forth and made what appears to be a video, but is in actual fact the pictures I took sped up to a fast pace. I prefer the videos without the filters as I think with filters it looks too processed. |
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Alfred Stieglitz
I particularly like the way he has used the reflection from the buildings on the water and captured it. I really like the way he hasn't just made it so the water is still, he has managed to work with the movement of the water to create a really appealing to the eye.
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Keld Helmer Petersen
I don't normally like just black and white photo's, but this one is an acception. The contrast really stands out and makes it more interesting.
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Experiments in Sutcliffe Park
We went to Sutcliffe Park with our cameras and a variety of camera lenses to experiment with, in order to take some highly 'professional' images in Margate. Rachael and I both took it in turns with the camera to take a variety of images with different lenses.
Margate:
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Taking our recently acquired skills of photography, we ventured out to Margate to test our skills in order to get some good pictures. We took advantage of the heavy wind and took some 'abstract' images. I paired up with Rachael again to take some of these images.
Photoshop
I wanted to edit some of my pictures from the trip on photoshop. By using a website called DeviantArt , where you can get cool effects for your photos, I downloaded some effects.
Here I chose an image that I wanted to put an effect on. In this case I chose an image that I took in Sutcliffe Park.
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Using DeviantArt, I dragged the effect I wanted into photoshop from DeviantArt and went to this lay out. From this I chose from the list below
As you can see, the end result is much brighter and clearer. I think that I prefer the end result more than the original.
Although I don't particularly want to use this technique for my final piece, I did want to experiment with photoshop. |
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My proposal:
By using a combination of water, oil and dyes, I want to create some abstract images of these different effects through/above water. Also by taking some images before hand and placing them under the jar/bowl that I'd be using it would create an abstract image that will hopefully show how I have managed to use abstraction and stayed true to the project that we are currently focusing on.
Final Piece
This is how I edited the images above so that they look decent for my final piece:
I used the editing programme provided with iPhoto.
I hardly done any changes to be honest, only sharpening the image slightly so that it didn't look so out of focus and making the colours more vivid. |
I used the simple editor to enhance the colour of the image, as It looked pretty dim
This is the last stage that I done to get the end result of the image that I wanted. As you can see I didn't really change anything drastically
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