Abstract Forms
What is abstract forms?
You can see the relationship between abstract art and abstract photography which they both concentrate on shapes, colour, texture etc. The audience is some unlike to see the whole object this is because the photographer has either cropped it out while taking the image and also has taken the subject of the photo is small pieces. Often the photograph wouldn't b literal view of the subject itself. The impact of aspects of the object within the image will become a foam of expressing the point. The abstract tends to being out some or all of these forms:
- Colour variation
- Angles
- Textures
- Shape
- Curves
- Patterns
"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." - Lucian Freud
Response #1
For our first lesson we was given a set of colourful paper which had to be returned the way it came and a set of white paper which we was able to do anything on it, for example cut it up into little pieces, cut out patterns, hold the corners and etc basically do what you want to the paper. So what I did is got colours that contrasted with each other and by doing that I was able to do that by researching the colour circle which allows me to see which colours are able to link with each other and to also to remember my primary, secondary colours. Firstly what came into my mind was that I wanted to cut up different sized triangles and by doing that I was able to place the different coloured paper under neath it. But as you can see within the first two images the lighting wasn't that great because I was using the schools normal light system which to improve my work, what I did was used the studio and there lights. I had placed the lights on top of the paper which I would get a clear bright colours within my images and also the papers will stand out. But because the paper wasn't flat onto the ground the paper would stick up and with that effect you would see a small shadow on the paper beneath it; thats coming from the light above. I tried to do many different things by lifting the paper and allowing the light to reflect a shadow to the paper below. As I had used all of the coloured paper I would cut more triangles, this is because I thought it would bring more effect to the picture and more interesting shapes. When it came to placing the paper I wasn't really worrying about it. But then I realised that I had to for it to be a good picture you should have a reason why you placed that paper in that position, well if you realised the colourful paper would cut through half of some of the triangles and I thought of doing this because it looked weird but interesting because its randomly just cutting through a triangle, I would want the audience to be asking themselves, why did the artist do this? What was she trying to achieve? What was her thoughts while doing this?
Francis Bruguière
Bruguière was an American photographer who became an important influence on American avant-garde photography which he had also moved to London where he had began his experiments that you wouldn't know what the object is till you would do some research on it and finding out that it was just paper and a bit of light or someone telling you if you went to an exhibition. He had also experimented with multiple exposures and also the cut-paper abstractions which he is well known for. With his cut-paper designs, which it isn't photograms which you would expect it to be, it evolved out of experiments by using light itself to create abstract
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photographic forms. Within these images he has photographed, strong, dramatic light, and interacting with curves by using light and shadows. The thing I loved and found inspiring about his work was that you don't know what the object is and that make the audience want to ask some questions and allowing them to do some research on it, also the cut paper abstractions are just amazing.
Jaroslav Rössler
Rossler was one of the most important Czech avant-garde photographers from the first half of the 1902's which got ranks for their abstractions and constructivist principles of photography. He was just an assistant to Frantisek Drtikol, but by doing other things he began to focus on minimalist details of actual objects and geometric paper-cuts, dealing with the compositions of the work for example with the, light and shadow, photomontages and also with constructivist shots of modern engineering and architecture.
Vjeko Sager
Responses #2
Research...
To try something different when I'm taking a set of pictures I wanted to try out a new setting on the camera, so I chose to use the manual settings and this is because I wanted to try to figure out how to use the settings and how to change the shutter speed, the aperture an the ISO. So what I did is done some research on what them settings meant which is shown below.
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By changing the shutter speed, aperture and the ISO I was able to see the difference between each picture.
I was able to find the right manual setting just by changing them and taking a picture and seeing how they turn out. If they turn't our dark I would increase the aperture and maybe increase a bit of the ISO. But just by taking pictures of the pictures I wanted I was able to find the correct setting to the lighting of the room.
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Response #3
These images below are the pictures that I have taken with the settings that I have displayed above. These are the evidence that I have taken images while it was on different setting modes. Trying to find the right shutter speed, aperture and the ISO was kinda tricky this is because we didn't really get taught on how to use a camera, on how to change its settings, what each of them mean and what they do. So I done my own research on how to use a camera and thankfully I was really successful with that.
I wanted to create a contact sheet and this is because by creating a contact sheet you can put the settings of the picture that was taken underneath the image. Which was really useful this is because by doing this I was able to see the settings for each image.
Response #4
Editing Images
I had decided to edit my pictures that I have taken with the micro lens, and I have edited them by using photoshop. What I have done to the images were that I had just used an auto smart fix. Which the images on the right are the before and after images.
In Photoshop I used the Elliptical Marquee Tool with a ratio of 2:2 to create circular selections of each image. I saved these as jpeg file and also gave them a white background. |