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Posted by Graham Whistler: Mon Sep 30th, 2024 12:38 1st Post
I have been working on some old USA Arizona D800 images to create some abstract type images for a camera club set subject of Abstract. Do these images work?

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Posted by Eric: Mon Sep 30th, 2024 23:31 2nd Post
I struggle with abstract photography. 

Photography is inherently recording life as we see it. Whereas abstract is creating scenes that are not lifelike.  This is how google defines it….

“Abstract photography consists of images created using photography materials and equipment that don't have an immediate association with the physical world. Abstract photographers use perspective, movement, and light to transform the world we see into an unexpected, often unrecognizable image.”

To me, abstract is about lines, shapes, curves, swirls, vortexes, grids, textures all interacting in different colours. 

Immediately you include anything “lifelike” the viewer gets a reality fix…which weakens the abstract nature of the image.

I can only remember doing one such design for a tech company brochure front…annoyingly I cannot find it for the moment.

But this is another design I did for an injection moulding company. It’s more of a digital collage than an abstract design as I’ve used their product shapes rather than random created shapes.  So there is inevitably a reality fix as the components are recognisable as life like objects.   It was eventually used as an exhibition poster with text overlay.



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Posted by Eric: Mon Sep 30th, 2024 23:44 3rd Post
Chris…does this need a subject of its own? 

Leaving it in Landscapes further reduces it abstract status to my mind.o.O


Who knows, we may go crazy and create a new experience for us all. :lol:



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Posted by Eric: Tue Oct 1st, 2024 00:30 4th Post
Go on then, I will have a go.

I have no idea what it's trying to say but maybe tomorrow I will have a title....or not :lol:




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Posted by Eric: Tue Oct 1st, 2024 00:36 5th Post
Just showed the image to my Art Director, as she was going to bed, who said this crop was more "abstract".

Who am I to argue with senior management???????   So I am off to bed as well!




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Posted by chrisbet: Tue Oct 1st, 2024 13:33 6th Post
For whatever you like.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Oct 2nd, 2024 14:11 7th Post
I suspect my effort is less abstract and more abject…. :lol:



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Posted by Eric: Fri Oct 11th, 2024 16:35 8th Post
The wife and I delayed bedtime last night to capture some photos of the Northern Lights.
I was photographing the sky over the house and Jan was photographing over he garden.

I noticed she was being illuminated with the red aurora from her iPhone screen. I told her to stand still' 

Apparently 3 secs is too long to stay still as she turned her head to ask if I had 'finished' at 2.5 secs.

A resulting blurred face of my lovely wife was the result ......and the moment was gone. 
This is the photo I caught, which is more appropriate on the abstract thread. :lol:






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Front garden with Jupiter centre stage..



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and another.....



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Posted by Eric: Sun Oct 13th, 2024 22:35 9th Post
Just heard something quite surreal. 

The elderly lady (93) living in the property across the road from me passed away during the time I was photographing the Aurora over her bungalow. 

Rather than Jupiter Ascending caption ( the planet was the bright spot ) those with a more devout faith might have considered ‘Phyllis Ascending’ a more appropriate caption for the moment, especially when this image over her roof which I didn’t post, had perhaps a more biblical look…..



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Posted by Graham Whistler: Wed Oct 16th, 2024 12:29 10th Post
Perhaps better with fire: "The Gates of Hell!"

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Posted by Eric: Wed Oct 16th, 2024 15:42 11th Post
Graham Whistler wrote:
Perhaps better with fire: "The Gates of Hell!"

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The reminds me of a throat with epiglotis one tonsil on fire and the other swollen lumps. 
With that in mind ....how about superimposing an open mouth drawing....




The Jaws of Hell....


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Posted by Iain: Wed Oct 16th, 2024 21:21 12th Post
The only place I know where you can go from heaven to hell in half an inch scroll  :lol:



Posted by Eric: Wed Oct 16th, 2024 22:22 13th Post
Iain wrote:
The only place I know where you can go from heaven to hell in half an inch scroll  :lol: :lol::lol:



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Posted by Graham Whistler: Wed Oct 16th, 2024 22:39 14th Post
Devil and Teeth?

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Posted by Eric: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 09:53 15th Post
I think the fire and devil are too obvious. A pair of HUGE demonic eyes or horns ghosted like the teeth perhaps.



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Posted by Graham Whistler: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 10:50 16th Post
I know Eric. it was ott, a bit of fun I will stick with just the fire for the camera club comp!



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Posted by Eric: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 11:45 17th Post
Graham Whistler wrote:
I know Eric. it was ott, a bit of fun I will stick with just the fire for the camera club comp! I think you could use the two sides as heaven and hell theme ..and paste into the areas with appropriate suggesting images......




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Posted by Eric: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 17:24 18th Post
Graham, I wonder if we are missing a trick? 

You have an opportunity to create an abstract image using AI.....and submit it (declared as AI) alongside your own image as a comparison what AI can do with just a few commands. In some ways AI is ideally suited to an abstract theme as it can do crazy things.

I created this by asking Firefly for "an Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features with a warped mesh net of hieroglyphs thrown over the image and fractal patterns with floating ice flakes"


Whether I should have done so is a matter of conjecture having seen the result. :lol:  



But it is what I believe to be abstract. 

It also will be a talking point in the club!!!!!


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Posted by Eric: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 17:58 19th Post
Incidentally this was one of Firefly's interpretations of "Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features"  which I used as the base. In some ways it's abstract enough to stand alone !



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The most annoying thing about AI is when you go back and repeat the same lines of text, you NEVER get the same image repeated.:whip:



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Posted by Iain: Thu Oct 17th, 2024 21:24 20th Post
Eric wrote:
Incidentally this was one of Firefly's interpretations of "Abstract photorealistic image depicting desert like features"  which I used as the base. In some ways it's abstract enough to stand alone !



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The most annoying thing about AI is when you go back and repeat the same lines of text, you NEVER get the same image repeated.:whip:
I’m not a great fan of abstract images but this one looks a bit like a chocolate ad.



Posted by Eric: Fri Oct 18th, 2024 19:55 21st Post
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I’m not a great fan of abstract images but this one looks a bit like a chocolate ad. Yes it does rather. Do you think I should offer it to Ferroro Rocher? ;-)



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Posted by chrisbet: Fri Oct 18th, 2024 20:25 22nd Post
Sous chef banned from the kitchen ...



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Posted by Iain: Fri Oct 18th, 2024 21:27 23rd Post
Eric wrote:
Yes it does rather. Do you think I should offer it to Ferroro Rocher? ;-) Only for a very large amount of sweets to sample. :lol:



Posted by Eric: Fri Oct 18th, 2024 23:32 24th Post
chrisbet wrote:
Sous chef banned from the kitchen ...



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Like it. There’s a hidden Kandinsky in all of us. :lol:



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Posted by Eric: Sat Oct 26th, 2024 18:05 25th Post
No so much abstract as surreal….



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Posted by Iain: Sat Oct 26th, 2024 20:53 26th Post
Eric wrote:
No so much abstract as surreal….



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Now that works for me.



Posted by chrisbet: Sun Oct 27th, 2024 08:02 27th Post
More of a photographic décollage :thumbs:



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Posted by Eric: Sun Oct 27th, 2024 15:34 28th Post
Iain wrote:
Now that works for me. Booking the first flight to Mars then ? :lol:



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Posted by Eric: Sun Oct 27th, 2024 15:35 29th Post
chrisbet wrote:
More of a photographic décollage :thumbs: I don’t know what colour that is! :lol:



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Posted by Iain: Sun Oct 27th, 2024 21:12 30th Post
I think I’ll probably be a star in the sky before the first flight to Mars takes off. :lol:



Posted by Eric: Sun Oct 27th, 2024 22:33 31st Post
Iain wrote:
I think I’ll probably be a star in the sky before the first flight to Mars takes off. :lol: Won’t we all!

Have you been taking any photos lately? Not seen any on here recently.
I was out in the garden this morning at 8am…..I forgot about the clocks going back.:banghead:

I only had my iphone to hand but 2 skeins of pink feet flew over. Lovely sight and sound. 174 to save you counting them lol




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