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:

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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.