Abstract photography is photography in which the subject is somewhat distorted so that you can not tell from the first look what it is. Abstract photography is done by taking photographs in unique ways and often only capturing sections of the subject. This can be done by taking the photographs from a different angle or from close up. this means that the subject matter of the photograph can be the same as a regular photograph however it has a completely different look. when experimenting with abstract photography, i chose a subject to photograph then took one photograph in an abstract style then another in a conventional manor so a comparison can be made between the two photographs. in order to make this this comparison easier, I edited the two photographs together to make a diptych so the two photographs can be viewed side by side. here are the diptychs i created.
this is the first diptych i created with an abstract image and a regular image of the same subject matter. these photographs are of a pillar which i came across whilst i was on a trip to the photography show in Birmingham. I chose to photograph this pillar as i liked its shiny appearance. the first photograph shown here is the abstract image. In order to take this abstract photograph, i got up close to the pillar and shot from the bottom looking up. I am quite happy with the way this image turned out however, it is not as abstract as it could have been as you can still kind of tell that this is a photograph of a pillar. the second photograph shown here is a standard photograph of the same pillar. i took this in a normal fashion meaning that the entirety of the pillar is shown. this photograph is solely so show what the abstract image is of and how it usually looks if you were to see it whilst walking past. the second image in this diptych was rotated as i realised that when i was taking this photograph, i shot the first image in landscape and the second was taken in portrait so in order for these images to fit together in a diptych one of them needed to be rotated so i chose to rotate the second one.
this is another diptych i created using an abstract image and a normal image of the same subject matter. these photographs are of a stairway which i found when i was on a trip to the photography show in Birmingham. I chose to photograph this stairway as i felt i would be able to easily create an abstract type image from this. the first image shown here is the normal image of the stairs. this image was taken to show what the stairway usually looks like when you are stood at the bottom of them. the second photograph is the abstract image taken of the same stairway. this photograph was taken while standing on the stairs looking down. each of the stripes is a step so this photograph is just a birds eye view of the stairs. i think that this works well as an abstract image as when you are looking at this photograph you cannot tell what this photograph was told without being told.
This is another diptych i created within photoshop to show an abstract image and a normal image which were taken including thr same subject matter. These photographs were taken of a bench which, again, i found whilst on a trip to the photography show in Birmingham. I chose to photograph this bench at first because i liked the colour but then realised that the pattern within the bench would create a good image for the abstract photograph. the first photograph shown within this diptych is the abstract style image. this photograph was taken from close up so the holes in the bence and the rain droplets are visible however, not much else is visible within this photograph. this means that you cannot properly tell what this photograph is of meaning that this photograph works well as an example of abstract photography. The second photograph shown here is a normal photograph of the same bench. in order to take this photograph i stood a few steps back from this bench and took a photograph which showed off the entire bench so it was obvious what the photograph was of.
overall i feel that abstract photography is very interesting as i like how you can take a photograph of something in such a way that it is distorted so that you can no longer tell what the subject of the photograph is at first glance.
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