So, for my final project in Craft class, I chose to do abstractions using medium format photography. I really loved taking those photos and love how they came out, so I decided to go look up abstract photography. What I found is very beautiful, and very different from what I am used to. They are all color photographs and they are zoomed out more and actually make it clear what they images are of. When I think about photo abstractions, I always thought to make the objects more ambiguous and to just focus on shadows and shapes and composition. But I suppose this does not always have to be the case.:
Leave Frost
© Tony Sweet
A Brush with Flair
© Tom Anderson
oTo
© Milena Kertova
Steel Fork
© Katarina Mansson
On Fire
© Jim Miotke
July in Denmark
© Evy Johansen
Eyes
© Elizabeth J Bernier
In these photos, the photographers used a wide and beautiful range of colors and they used their subjects to their full advantages. Instead of trying to make the viewer not recognize the subject, they decided to use the subject to allow viewers to see it in new and exciting ways. Some are more zoomed in and others show most of the subject, but either way, the viewer still knows what they're looking at. It's as if the photographer is trying to show the beauty of the objects, and not the shapes, colors, and compositions that you can find in them. All in all I think these photos are fantastic and I can't stop looking at them and all the colors and textures in the images. Perhaps I'll try to take photos like these next time I decide to do a project on abstractions.
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