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Graham Whistler
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I have been working on some old USA Arizona D800 images to create some abstract type images for a camera club set subject of Abstract. Do these images work? Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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I struggle with abstract photography. Photography is inherently recording life as we see it. Whereas abstract is creating scenes that are not lifelike. This is how google defines it…. “Abstract photography consists of images created using photography materials and equipment that don't have an immediate association with the physical world. Abstract photographers use perspective, movement, and light to transform the world we see into an unexpected, often unrecognizable image.” To me, abstract is about lines, shapes, curves, swirls, vortexes, grids, textures all interacting in different colours. Immediately you include anything “lifelike” the viewer gets a reality fix…which weakens the abstract nature of the image. I can only remember doing one such design for a tech company brochure front…annoyingly I cannot find it for the moment. But this is another design I did for an injection moulding company. It’s more of a digital collage than an abstract design as I’ve used their product shapes rather than random created shapes. So there is inevitably a reality fix as the components are recognisable as life like objects. It was eventually used as an exhibition poster with text overlay.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Chris…does this need a subject of its own? Leaving it in Landscapes further reduces it abstract status to my mind.  Who knows, we may go crazy and create a new experience for us all.  |
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Eric
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Go on then, I will have a go. I have no idea what it's trying to say but maybe tomorrow I will have a title....or not  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Just showed the image to my Art Director, as she was going to bed, who said this crop was more "abstract". Who am I to argue with senior management??????? So I am off to bed as well!  Click here to comment on this image. |
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chrisbet
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For whatever you like. |
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Eric
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I suspect my effort is less abstract and more abject…. |
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Eric
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The wife and I delayed bedtime last night to capture some photos of the Northern Lights. I was photographing the sky over the house and Jan was photographing over he garden. I noticed she was being illuminated with the red aurora from her iPhone screen. I told her to stand still' Apparently 3 secs is too long to stay still as she turned her head to ask if I had 'finished' at 2.5 secs. A resulting blurred face of my lovely wife was the result ......and the moment was gone. This is the photo I caught, which is more appropriate on the abstract thread.  Click here to comment on this image. Front garden with Jupiter centre stage..  Click here to comment on this image. and another.....  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Just heard something quite surreal. The elderly lady (93) living in the property across the road from me passed away during the time I was photographing the Aurora over her bungalow. Rather than Jupiter Ascending caption ( the planet was the bright spot ) those with a more devout faith might have considered ‘Phyllis Ascending’ a more appropriate caption for the moment, especially when this image over her roof which I didn’t post, had perhaps a more biblical look…..  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Graham Whistler
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Perhaps better with fire: "The Gates of Hell!" Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Perhaps better with fire: "The Gates of Hell!"The reminds me of a throat with epiglotis one tonsil on fire and the other swollen lumps. With that in mind ....how about superimposing an open mouth drawing.... The Jaws of Hell....  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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The only place I know where you can go from heaven to hell in half an inch scroll |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:The only place I know where you can go from heaven to hell in half an inch scroll |
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Graham Whistler
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Devil and Teeth? Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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I think the fire and devil are too obvious. A pair of HUGE demonic eyes or horns ghosted like the teeth perhaps. |
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Graham Whistler
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I know Eric. it was ott, a bit of fun I will stick with just the fire for the camera club comp! |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:I know Eric. it was ott, a bit of fun I will stick with just the fire for the camera club comp!I think you could use the two sides as heaven and hell theme ..and paste into the areas with appropriate suggesting images......  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Graham, I wonder if we are missing a trick? You have an opportunity to create an abstract image using AI.....and submit it (declared as AI) alongside your own image as a comparison what AI can do with just a few commands. In some ways AI is ideally suited to an abstract theme as it can do crazy things. I created this by asking Firefly for "an Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features with a warped mesh net of hieroglyphs thrown over the image and fractal patterns with floating ice flakes" Whether I should have done so is a matter of conjecture having seen the result. But it is what I believe to be abstract. It also will be a talking point in the club!!!!!  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Incidentally this was one of Firefly's interpretations of "Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features" which I used as the base. In some ways it's abstract enough to stand alone ! Click here to comment on this image. The most annoying thing about AI is when you go back and repeat the same lines of text, you NEVER get the same image repeated.  |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:Incidentally this was one of Firefly's interpretations of "Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features" which I used as the base. In some ways it's abstract enough to stand alone !I’m not a great fan of abstract images but this one looks a bit like a chocolate ad. |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:I’m not a great fan of abstract images but this one looks a bit like a chocolate ad.Yes it does rather. Do you think I should offer it to Ferroro Rocher?  |
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chrisbet
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Sous chef banned from the kitchen ...  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:Yes it does rather. Do you think I should offer it to Ferroro Rocher?Only for a very large amount of sweets to sample. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Sous chef banned from the kitchen ...Like it. There’s a hidden Kandinsky in all of us. |
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Eric
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No so much abstract as surreal…. Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:No so much abstract as surreal….Now that works for me. |
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chrisbet
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More of a photographic décollage  |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:Now that works for me.Booking the first flight to Mars then ? |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:More of a photographic décollageI don’t know what colour that is! |
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Iain
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I think I’ll probably be a star in the sky before the first flight to Mars takes off. |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:I think I’ll probably be a star in the sky before the first flight to Mars takes off.Won’t we all! Have you been taking any photos lately? Not seen any on here recently. I was out in the garden this morning at 8am…..I forgot about the clocks going back.  I only had my iphone to hand but 2 skeins of pink feet flew over. Lovely sight and sound. 174 to save you counting them lol  Click here to comment on this image. |
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