Abstract Photography

Dear Viewers and Fellow Photographers,

Abstract Photography is more difficult than normal photography. This statement is debated across the Globe by everyone, and is always wondered on about how it is not a 'real' art, but I would say that is a rather aesthetic way of thinking, an idea more like 'art for art's sake'. I strongly disagree with this as photos and all art has a meaning behind, whether what the viewer's feels whilst reacting to the image, or the importance to the artist which creates it. Many people usually forget that photographers are Artists.

Anyway, looking at Abstract Art you can see the absolutely huge range of what Abstract Art can mean. They usually have no definition, unlike a composition, and also no back meaning, it is simply to arise emotions in the viewer, and in many cases it is not even that. Here is an example of one:

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This photo is actually extremely eye catching. It is one of the few photos that actually have not been under heavy editing software to add more 'abstractness' to it. It is clever, the way how the slab of land in the bottom half of the photo seems as if it is a shape, no longer land at all. It is also extremely clever, the way it uses this feature to make the viewer concentrate on what it actually is, and is surprised that something as natural as land can be so confusing. The photo has no meaning whatsoever behind it, and the picture has only made to seem to flick through natural and unnatural due to the editing done to it. A more real life abstract picture would be something like this:

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This photo uses it's colours to define itself outside 'photographic'. The photo makes you want to look at the main object at the top of the photo and actually right into the bulb. The lights look like they are swinging because they seem to be at different angles to each other by the way the photographer has angled his camera. Also what makes this photograph look intresting is how the lights are purple under their own glow and how everything around them is pitch-black.

In Abstract Photography there are two main things, the editting and the object. The editting required to make a picture as normal as it is look so unreallistic is huge, and usually people get others skilled at such things to finish it off for them. Colours are important for this, as you can see in the first example as well as the last example, for the sea and the water and the lights and obviously the background.

The last style of Abstract Photography is the grayscale ones such as the one below:

http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Abstract-Photography-02.jpg

In this photograph you can see the amount of editing done to give the effect of whatever the long things are to seem to light up the clouds. This is a good photograph because of the alteration of the shape of the objects, which to our perspective look straight and identical but sometimes looks as if they are curved, bent or just abnormal. This picture shows to which extent the abnormality of the picture can go to.

Abstract photography goes a long way, pleasing the non-photographer and confusing the common photographer.

Yours Truly,
Snapography.

Garden Photography

Dear Viewers and Fellow Photographers,

Garden Photography is not a simple one-time topic. It consists of many areas, for example some sorts of Weddings or celebrations to the flowers. The Garden is an area full of photographic success for many reasons:

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The Garden, normally is an area full of colours and themes. You can add a huge amount of detail to the photos such as field of view to give it an extremely amazing effect. In the first picture you can see how the background gives the overall picture a somewhat 'beautiful' effect. The picture has a natural beauty effect which nowadays is not really available to lots of us.

In order to get such a great effect from your photos, you have to remember to have your subject of the photo in line with the background of the whole composition. Also you have to remind yourself how much effect the background has on the entire photo, and try to introduce different colours, and also try not to have a skyline or a definate outline to it, this enables the photo to keep it's wonder and heaven-like feature. Also, if you have more time to take the photo, try to keep colours in the background contrasting from your second object, in this case the flowers, and if you can, you might even make it the same colour as the first object in your photo. This combines the whole photo together.

This links into the use of flowers in your photos, this is well represented by this photo:

My own photo

This is a photo taken in Italy, near the Bay of Naples. It is from a famous tree type found in Italy, nicknamed 'The Blood Red' tree in Latin, due to a fable how Satan was hung on the tree and the tree had absorbed the blood leading to the colour of it. You can see the photo has a blurred out background and you can see the importance a background can give to a photo.

There are many examples of this on the internet which can inspire you to keep the background vivid in Garden Photography.

Yours Truly,
Snapography.

Aquarium Photography

Dear Viewers and Fellow Photographers,

Aquarium Photography is hard. Normally, the photo turns out to be blue and even discoloured, and leaves the untrained photographer wondering why the camera cannot capture what the human eye sees, and aquariums are the perfect example of this:

This is not a very 'fabulous' photograph, lets just say. The photo has no clear object, which is meant to be the shark but it really isn't visible, the angle of the photo doesn't give it a sea-like effect, it's blurred and "its all blue". There are many, many  visible problems with this photo.

http://ilmadventures.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/big-shark.jpg

Lets start torubleshooting, if your photos turn out like this when you go to the aquarium then its not quite worth keeping them. The first problem with this photo is with the object. In order to get a good photograph in the low light situation, keep your aperture high as well as the shutter speed. This will minimise the blurred effect on the photograph, while still letting light into the camera. If you sort out the problems with the object in the photo, it might turn out like this:

http://www.thesaltybox.com/News/3088-Sea-Life-London-Underwater-Pumpkin-Competition.html

This photo has a clear object, and has lost some of the dark bluish effect which is good. Now to remove the dirty blue you have to unsaturate the image, possible on some versions of digital cameras but not very effective, so what you have to do is probably edit it on any software on your computer, Picasa will be able to do the job. If you are able to do this successfully, your image may look more like this:

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The object is now clear, the water is not coming into the way of it, but the image has 'vignetted'. To solve this sort of problem, (if you get it) is to add a blue 'lighting setting' on your camera. This will undo this to a certain extent, and will also remove any remaining 'blueness' to the image. It should turn out slightly like this:

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The photo is finally visible, unblurred and clean. If you gave a DSLR, you can put on a macro lens and take photos like this:

http://imagene.youropi.com/london-aquarium-activiteit-londen-1(p:activity,6793)(c:0).jpg

Your Truly, 
Snapography.