Abstract Photography

Abstract photography takes place when a photographer focuses in on a part of a natural scene, isolating it from the background. By zeroing in on the color, texture, line, shape, geometry, symmetry, or reflection of a scene, it warps our perception of the real world and familiar objects, making it look unique.

Saul Leiter

– Saul Leiter was an American artist and early pioneer of color photography. His interest began in his late teens.
– Leiter’s first exhibition of color photography was held in the 1950s at the Artist’s Club, a meeting place for many of the Abstract artists of that time.
– At the age of 23, he left theology school and moved to New York, which is where most of his photos were taken.

I like Saul Leiter’s images as the use unique viberent colours in a city environment, which normally consists of grey and white buildings, instead of red green and yellow. He uses a high aperture to blur half of the image to create a focus on the main object in the image.

My ideas

– Fill up a bucket of water, and spray paint and mix it round. Then take photos of the patterns.
– Play a colourful video on my laptop and shoot the images through different glasses, eg, wine glasses and perfume bottles.

My Abstract Photos

How i did it
First, i opened up a video on my laptop with a colourful video playing, then i put a glass in front of the screen and took photos through the glass. I made sure the room was dark and the lights were off, to get a nice ambient effect.

Explanation
I like the outcome of these abstract photos, as they have a lot of vibrant colours, which is visually appealing.
They display a lot of unique shapes and patterns, as the glass distorted the appearance due to the curves and texture on the glass.
The colours compliment each other, which makes them stand out.
The photos are over exposed, which makes them more abstract as its harder to tell what the image is of.
The highlights compliment the shadows, although the black point is higher making the black more dominant, therefore bringing out the colours more

My Out Of Focus Photos

Explanation
I changed my camera to manual focus and put it to the most blurry setting, and took photos of different objects in front of the screen, and through the glass, using the same method as the abstract images.
I edited the images to circles in Photoshop to make it different and look nice.