These are the best of my shots from Europe that are intended as abstracts or to highlight color, pattern, shape, focus or other dimensions of space and time. I know this is not everyone's cup of tea, but I find that when I shoot for these things I do see the world in a new way and discover aspects of reality I would not otherwise.
In shooting people this way (which I have not done a lot of before), I was struck by the connection between some of the results and the statues of Alberto Giacometti (as in this famous photograph of the artists and his work by Henri Cartier-Bresson.)
I am not a big post processor of my images, but do find it interesting in the case of abstract photography to play around with saturation and color more than I usually do.
The most radically altered images here are a result of inverting the colors. They also came from the most naturally non-representational photos. In one of the cases, you can see the transformation from original image, to inverted color, to black and white, to black and white inversion.
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I'll have to send you an album of some of my favorite abstracts. I mostly play with saturation and exposure. It's a fun exercise!
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