January Photo Competition: Abstract

[alef]

Here's an old one of mine.


1. Sparkling

Even though my first entry is an out of focus shot of a chandelier at the Royal Fesitval Hall, as johey says abstract doesn't necessarily mean out of focus and there are superb entries already.

Fantastic. Think that's the best out of focus shot I've ever seen.

 

[kropotkin]

bokehtastic

 

[Crispy]

Some nice pics so far. They make good desktops

 

[mauvais]

1. Toothbrush - new shot, not done much to that.

2. Adventures In Bubbles - old shot, reprocessed. Lots of layer work.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Good ones mavis

(psst, why do you put borders around all your photos now?)

 

[mauvais]

Always have! Last two years at least.

 

[Robster970]

1. Pumpkin Lantern

it's this pumpkin lantern taken on a 7 second exposure whilst the camera was moved around in haphazard, entirely random directions

That's lovely.

 

[Wilson]

metal

 

[hiccup]

Line after line

 

[kropotkin]

Line after line

That's nice- I like the lines the wires make.

 

[kropotkin]

1. Toothbrush - new shot, not done much to that.

2. Adventures In Bubbles - old shot, reprocessed. Lots of layer work.

Both great.
What framing script do you use?

 

[rioted]

Hello everybody.

Three reflections taken with a cheap compact down the canal a few hours ago:

1 Tree
2 Railings
3 Court

 

[mauvais]

Both great.
What framing script do you use?

I just increase canvas size in Photoshop. +2 pixels white, +60(?) black, sometimes +2 white again. Or the opposite. I wrote an action to do it.

 

[snadge]

Hello everybody.

Three reflections taken with a cheap compact down the canal a few hours ago:

1 Tree
2 Railings
3 Court

railings is superb.

 

[mort]

Hello everybody.

Three reflections taken with a cheap compact down the canal a few hours ago:

1 Tree
2 Railings
3 Court

Tree is also superb. A great set of shots

 

[e19896]

My, my E#! That is lovely indeed. Definitely one of my favs from your eye.

On a lighter note. I have to admit I am not a fan of this month's topic and know even less about what "abstact" means than Mauvais.

Ignorance drove me to Google, the Great Enlightener, and I immediately thanked god when I realised "abstract" does not mean "out of focus" (ONLY) as I incorrectly understood it to be earlier! Nor does it mean that you should not be able to identify what it is you have taken a pic of.

Yes, go ahead. Laugh. I deserve that for my lack of worldiness.

Any case, here are some good sites about Abstract photography (with examples of photos) I came upon. For those of you as artistically challenged as meself, have a look. We could even pick up a few tips here.

http://www.totku.com/new.html

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGall2.asp?catID=19

http://www.flickr.com/groups/abstrato/pool/

and then, a link to one of my two fav photographers on flickr. This is a young lady with immense, natural talent leaving every single one of us on here way behind in her dust. She has some bloody amazing abstract stuff that, again, we could learn from.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erbi5276/

well thank you that was on a fuji 1300 around 2001 i was very stoned looking at the plant and a little board truth be told she was there looking at me and erm i thought macro and now she is dead, as said her sister lives on at my brothers in fact he helped kill her, shit happens..

 

[Robster970]

First one this month

Inverted smoke

 

[hiccup]

the thumbnails page is looking very pretty so far

 

[mauvais]

3. Contact - new shot, done with a 50mm lens reverse mounted on the end of a 300mm lens. Tricky. No real PS bar dust clean up.

 

[alef]

First one this month

Inverted smoke

Very slick, looks almost like blown glass.

Did you add the green? If it's just inverted then I guess you had some red smoke?

 

[Robster970]

Very slick, looks almost like blown glass.

Did you add the green? If it's just inverted then I guess you had some red smoke?

In PS I inverted it which made the smoke kind of brown/green coloured. I shifted the hue a bit to make it more green. It's all a bit fiddly to set up btw and the hosue now smells quite strongly of josticks..

 

[alef]

(removed, pupils lurk)

 

[Valve]

2. In the Clouds

 

[e19896]

First one this month

Inverted smoke

fucking love oh shit this is going to wire when we have to vote? there are some stunning images here already going to loan a cannon me thinks and go out and play..

 

[Robster970]

fucking love oh shit this is going to wire when we have to vote? there are some stunning images here already going to loan a cannon me thinks and go out and play..

Thanks man. I know what you mean about this month. I had a look at the thumbs It's only the 8th today too, another 23 days left this month.

 

[Sweet FA]

Mucking about in the kitchen this morning


1. Dust

2. Frozen Roaches

3. Rags

 

[mort]

2. Perpetual

Minor editing - increased saturation and blacks during RAW converstion.

Early days and the bar is being set very high particularly by Robster's Inverted Smoke.

 

[e19896]

Thanks man. I know what you mean about this month. I had a look at the thumbs It's only the 8th today too, another 23 days left this month.

and was we haveing a conversation about this comp being dead, and one said erm perhaps not just the subject matter might be a little hard? then comes abstract and it takes of, nothing like a good challange is there folks? abstract being one of them and Robster970 your smoke has raised the challange and thanks for doing so fucking love it..

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Number 1

www.flickr.com/photos/keeperofdragons/2178515562/

number 2

www.flickr.com/photos/keeperofdragons/2177729855/in/photostream/

KoD

 

[Fez909]

1) Laura As Eye See Her

A bit of tweaking in Photoshop, such as levels and cropping. Shame I didn't have my proper camera with me that day, as the quality from my phone's a bit pants.