DSS #123 - I need your C&C too!

ShootingStar

Hello

Like TJRidgway, this is my first attempt at abstract photography.
I like it, it makes me look at my environment all the time and I discovered crazy things I used to walk by every day.
So I have 3 possible entries which are very different.
I would really appreciate your inputs, C&C etc.

Anchored tree



Humidification



Sharp water



Thanks a lot for your help

Claire

kwickers

Humidification




I like this the best, it is a nice blue, abstract enough, but understandable, the image fills the frame. My fav of these three. If you did reshoot or modify this image I would like to see more of the top center part where the liquid and/or bubbles seems clearer and brighter. Keith

ShootingStar

kwickers wrote: »

I like this the best, it is a nice blue, abstract enough, but understandable, the image fills the frame. My fav of these three. If you did reshoot or modify this image I would like to see more of the top center part where the liquid and/or bubbles seems clearer and brighter. Keith

Thanks for the inputs Keith.
Is this version better?
I am not convinced. I cannot get more of the brighter ones, as it is at the end of the part.



Thanks

Claire

tinamarie52

I like #1 better than the condensation shots. I would crop it to fill the frame with the 'tree'. I like the stark contrast between the background and object.

For me, the condensation is very ordinary (as in , we see it every day and know what it is). Even though it is well-captured, it doesn't say abstract as strongly as #1.....for me!

Chris

ShootingStar

tinamarie52 wrote: »

I like #1 better than the condensation shots. I would crop it to fill the frame with the 'tree'. I like the stark contrast between the background and object.

For me, the condensation is very ordinary (as in , we see it every day and know what it is). Even though it is well-captured, it doesn't say abstract as strongly as #1.....for me!

Chris

Thanks Chris

Regarding the humidification, it does look like other common shots but I don't think you know what I photographed. It is a product we manufacture at my work and I photographed it during testing. If you look closely, there is a plastic pattern among the bubbles.

Regarding #1 I tried to crop it again. What do you think?


Thanks

Claire

tinamarie52

Yes, I like the crop better. And yes, I saw the regular button-looking things in the condensation, but I still like the first one.

What's interesting is that YOU know what you shot, so there's context that makjes it a neater shot than for the viewer. I struggle with that in my photography. I have a fabulous shot of the spartina grass line in the marsh against this awesome sky in a blurred abstract. It might be my most favorite image. No one else gets it because they weren't there.

Just because you have an image ofr the challenge, don't stop looking!.

Welcome to the challenges.

Chris

PedalGirl

As far as theme goes, I think that Humidification would be more on the right track. Since what the theme is after is that the object that you are photographing is not really recognizable.

ShootingStar

Chris, thanks again. Very true about the story behind the pictures.

Pedagirl, thanks for your comment.
This is where I am struggling. JAG explained the subject should not be identifiable and fit the whole frame, however she also said to do some research about abstract photography. So after reading a lot of various articles on the subject, the definition that I found which fit the best all I have read is: "What does take precedence is the form, colour, line and texture within the composition, to create a piece that is visually stimulating."
That's why I have the "tree" one in my 3.

So JAG, if you are reading this, should we restrain to the definition you gave on the DSS entry post?

Thanks again everyone and if others have opinions and comments, please post them.

Claire

JAG

ShootingStar wrote: »

Chris, thanks again. Very true about the story behind the pictures.

Pedagirl, thanks for your comment.
This is where I am struggling. JAG explained the subject should not be identifiable and fit the whole frame, however she also said to do some research about abstract photography. So after reading a lot of various articles on the subject, the definition that I found which fit the best all I have read is: "What does take precedence is the form, colour, line and texture within the composition, to create a piece that is visually stimulating."
That's why I have the "tree" one in my 3.

So JAG, if you are reading this, should we restrain to the definition you gave on the DSS entry post?

Thanks again everyone and if others have opinions and comments, please post them.

Claire

I did say to look it up to get more definition and that yes there are other forms. But I also defind what this challenge is more pointedly about:

"Definitions very slightly, however what we are looking for this round is that the image you submit is not identifiable as a direct object, rather concentrate on colors, shapes, lines, textures and such to create your images."

So as I demonstrated in my images on that original challenge thread, the last image being an acceptable abstract, it might not get as much reconition of being abstract as say one that is like the other examples.

I hope I have answered your question?