Abstract Photography - Favourite Image

This is my favourite image of all my film. I rushed to do it as I was working through lunch (I'd much prefer to have a 3 hour photography session than 2 hours as I feel we don't have enough time), and did not set the exposure long enough. I have every intention of developing an improvement of this photo, and to develop more from this particular film.
 For this particular image, I gathered as many fallen apples as I could find. When I had a few dozen, I selected one that had barely any damage, one with a little bruising, one with a little decomposition, and one that had nearly decomposed completely. I set them in a row and awaited the sun to set just enough to allow the shadowing in the decomposing apples to show depth in the apples.

Abstract Photography - Final Print Improved

I set my final print for a longer exposure, and I'm a lot happier with the outcome. Just to clarify, I blurred the focus on a muddy puddle, and I feel it is one of the most abstract things I've done through this project.

Abstract Photography - Final Print

I'm not happy with how my final print turned out. When thinking about the exposure time, I feel it should have been longer. To make certain I have the detail I want, I will also give more contrast. Putting the contrast up should improve the light and dark areas without effecting each other.

Photography - Final Print Tests

The same thing happened here as the contact sheet tests. I must remember to open the aperture before exposing. The lines where the second image gradually gets lighter shows the estimated exposure time. The darkest is at 20 seconds, counting down in 2 second bursts to 4 seconds being the lightest.

Contact Sheet Tests

 

These were the two tests I had done before my final contact sheet. The first contact sheet test was much too dark. I set my aperture on the exposure unit to 5.6, and the second time round it was successful. The exposure times ranged between 4 and 16 seconds, 2 seconds added per interval. I chose the time that looked right, being 8 seconds, and exposed my final contact sheet at 8 seconds.

Abstract Photography - Contact Sheet

The most successful of my films for Photography. Each image represents abstract whether it is a pattern, shape, use of tone or shadowing. Every image was closely thought about before taking, and there are some that are better than others. I've developed of a few of the images I thought to be best, and will post/write about them in the upcoming months when I have completed my photography brief.

Unmatching Jigsaw

These are the small squared I used in my last post to create the open spaces. I felt that together they created an intricate image. This has given me ideas to create more just like this using different colour palettes. 

Reply to Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm

Here I used the same colour palette that Jackson Pollock used in Autumn Rhythm. The spaces of no lines are where I placed small squares of paper. I will combine the smaller pieces together to create a small image, and then convert it to a larger painting.

Soft Pastel Spherical Shapes

A repeat of my last two posts, only these were done with soft pastels on an A3 scale. I would be pleased with this if I had managed to keep my paper clean. I feel the patches of unwanted colours at the bottom of the drawing ruin the whole thing. 

Monochrome Spherical Shapes

Using the same technique as my last post, I changed my material. Instead of using water colour paints, I used charcoal. This gave the image a monochrome effect. This worked better in comparison to my other spherical shapes. I was disappointed that colours from the opposite page had rubbed off on to this drawing. 

Painted Spherical Shapes

More from my Abstraction project. I aimed to create coloured bubbles, but found that making 3D effects of sphere's worked better.

Abstracted Hand 3D

I saw something similar to this on the internet and decided to make my own. I lightly drew around my hand with a pencil, then using a ruler and a fine liner, I drew multiple lines. I arched the lines as the made contact with the outline. The result was this 3D effect of my hand.

Abstract Plate

For this my idea came from a mounted square plate on my wall. I used the same technique from my Floral Abstraction piece, and I used the shadowing on the background instead of the plate.

Floral Abstraction

This is an A5 drawing from my Abstraction sketchbook. I focused on the middle of a Begonia and created a shaded effect using pointillism. The Begonia's I studied were red, so I used the colour palette in the background to give the drawing more volume.

2D Sculpture (2)

Another sculpture from the Barbara Hepworth Gallery, only this time I used the mosaic effect in Photoshop.

Rose Pattern

I drew around an image of a rose in Photoshop, just keeping to an outline. I then copied and repeated that rose to make this pattern.

Digitally Drawn Peach Rose

I coloured this in Photoshop with a basic paintbrush. I had drawn on a new layer over an image I uploaded, and after finishing I deleted the background, leaving only the painted image. 

2D Sculpture

A sculpture from the Barbara Hepworth Gallery in Yorkshire, outlined with basic paintbrush and background patterned with a simple photoshop background.

Abstracted Ballet Shoes

For this I was simply playing around with photoshop. It started as an image of ballet shoes, but I had removed the background and edited the hue. Using a smudge tool, I pulled at the edges. I was left with this abstracted image of ballet shoes.

Slab Building

A tester from Ceramics using the slab building process. It is linked to my Abstraction Project, hence the use of shapes. After it has been fired I will stick to a colour theme of blues when glazing. More information to come when I have finished the piece.