I believe that abstraction means odd and weird photos.
FORMAL ELEMENT
Focus:
Light: Line: Repetition: Shape: Space: Texture: Value/Tone: |
Which areas appear clearest or sharpest in the photograph? Which do not?
Which areas of the photograph are brightest? Are there any shadows? Does the photograph allow you to guess the time of day? Is the light natural or artificial? Harsh or soft? Reflected or direct? Are there objects in the photograph that act as lines? Are they straight, curvy, thin, thick? Do the lines create direction in the photograph? Do they outline? Do the lines show movement or energy? Are there any objects, shapes or lines which repeat and create a pattern? Do you see geometric (straight edged) or organic (curvy) shapes? Which are they? Is there depth to the photograph or does it seem shallow? What creates this appearance? Are there important negative (empty) spaces in addition to positive (solid) spaces? Is there depth created by spatial illusions i.e. perspective? If you could touch the surface of the photograph how would it feel? How do the objects in the picture look like they would feel? Is there a range of tones from dark to light? Where is the darkest value? Where is the lightest? |
My Abstract Quote!
Class work
HOMEWORK - MORE & LESS ABSTRACT
FOCUSED ABSTRACT PHOTOS HOMEWORK
I chose the formal element focus because I think it stands out and it’s easy going take a photo of.
Dafna Talmor
Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, video, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hiscox and in private collections internationally
I see lots of photos that look like they are taken at a beach and the edges of the cliffs look like burnt paper and it looks like a ripper up paper that is trysts to be put back together she also used a repetition of the same sceneries also a lot of values and tones also the lighting goes form low-key to high-key
It looks like she has got different types of rocks and then put them together so that they can match I have also realised that she has no humans or buildings the edges also makes you think of a sunset
This photo shows some trees and is different to the others because they mainly show oceans and rocks and a weird type of sunset
WINDOW ABSTRACTS
Today we were cutting scraps of images and turning them into collages had to put them together with sellotape no glue and hug them up on the windows
These two are my favourite collages close up because I like the way it zooms into the transparent part and blurred the paper for one of them and the other one blurred the background and focused on the paper
Today in class Dafna Talmor showed us how to make constructed landscapes and first your supposed to choose at least 3 pictures then take them out their slides and cut out pieces and put things together to get the final look like the pictures above
TOOLS NEEDED:
35mm slides
Light boxes
Cutting mats
Scalpels
Hole punches
Sellotape
Coloured cellophane
Highlighter
Pens
35mm slides
Light boxes
Cutting mats
Scalpels
Hole punches
Sellotape
Coloured cellophane
Highlighter
Pens
Puzzled 'Em
I chose the photos because they are hard to tell and are supposed to be put in a game where its more like a guessing game.
Responding to Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter experimented with lines a lot i personally think he done this so that he can draw the audiEnce to the photo and so they can question themselvEs as to why he is using lines i think he uses lines so that he cant block some of the parts of the photo.and i have noticed that a lot of them are out of focus