Distortion: Valerie Morris

 In most types of photography, distortion is unwanted. Sometimes it can be desirable because an artist can create art that is one of a kind. Distortion is alteration of an original object that could be hard to figure out what it was in the first place.

Distortion is similar to abstract because there isn’t a true reality to the image. When an image is being distorted, the meaning of the image becomes different. Distortion doesn’t have to be taken so literally but most of the time it is. Your perception and outlook could be distorting how you look at the scene or something you photographing could actually be distorting the image.

Distortion: Andrew Pusbach

 

 

 

 

  

Distortion is the twisting, changing, or alteration of a shape, truth, or condition.  
 

Eliminating the subject’s environment from the composition, viewing it from a unique angle, or employing selective focus, removes its context. This allows the viewer to free his imagination to see the subject in a more creative and abstract way.

When a photograph is created, the composition, timing, and inclusion of specific elements, is all subject to the photographer’s personal vision. This can be interpreted as distortion, due to the fact that the photographer’s personal vision dictates what is conveyed to the viewer.

For this particular image, I photographed an old and dilapidated train car in Victor, Colorado. I found the subject to be interesting, but a compelling composition was evading me. As I studied the car I noticed some peeling paint on one of the walls, and realized that I found my subject.

 

Abstract: Scott Kotelnicki

Abstract is a lack of a definite or an undefined structure.  It is a view beyond the natural eye of observation.  When abstract is first seen its shapes and colors define it.  Only if these capture the eyes will the viewer begin to look deeper and search for meaning in the art.

Using a 60mm macro lens I got in close to a wooden puzzle that was light with the morning sun.  My first shots concentrated on the shadows that were form on the table. but in the end beauty is still most important in my work.

Abstract: Angus Hooper III

The leaves and sticks in this image resemble a dead animal lying in the road.  The contrast between the dead of the leaves and the animal form made, make me wonder if someone was puting this image together intentionally.

Abstract: Andrew Wyman

    These ashtrays, outside of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment building, gave me a lot to think about today. What pressures are these smokers are facing? Are these smokers unemployed and looking for work? Are they people who have been injured on the job and seeking workman’s compensation? Or, are they simply government workers employed at this building?
    I pass this building at least once a day. I pass by it oblivious to what’s happening in these people’s lives. I’m usually listening to music and concerned with my own worries of the day. If I were to step back and look at the world in an abstract way maybe I could help to make a real difference in the world.

Abstract: Brandon Chapin

To a human being the most abstract thing in existence, in my opinion, is that which mankind did not create.  This means Mother Nature created abstract, is abstract, and remains abstract.  It is something that we don’t always understand and will always be dumbfounded by.  During my travels across the deserts of Utah, Arizona, and Nevada I stopped in Moab, Utah to see the rock formations that have been sitting there, the same, for ages.  They are beautiful, natural occurrence that creates awe and amazement in humans when seen in person. 

© Brandon Chapin Photography

Abstract: Valerie Morris

Have you ever truly stopped and looked at what is around you? Our world is amazing and filled with many possibilities. If you would just take a few seconds in your busy schedule, and really looked at what you touch throughout the day. What would you see? 


Would you see the ordinary object or would you see colors, textures, and shapes that appear repeatedly. If you can open your eyes to this, you just looked at the objects in an abstract way.


Abstract art can be the most ordinary objects, we see every day. However, they may not look like it. Truthfully, it’s not really about the objects. It’s about what the objects can create through design.

Abstract: Matthew Moore

Like A Banana To A Flame   © 2012 Matthew Moore

Into The Light—Banana Heaven Awaits   © 2012 Matthew Moore

What would your life be like if you were a piece of fruit? Would you have friends, a job, offspring? What challenges would you have? Would you have enemies, predators or prey?

In the above images, I played with light and focus to express what a banana might experience at its end-of-life. I wanted to portray a top-down background light in an ominous way as to suggest "going into the light" and a soft out-of-focus essence to create a dream-like state. Luckily in post-production, I was able to create two different stories with the same shot. One where the banana was looking to the light much like a moth does to a flame just before perishing and the other as if the banana's spirit was moving towards the "heavenly light" on its final breath.

Abstract: Andrew Pusbach

“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.” –Aaron Siskind

One of the inherent qualities of abstract photography is how it allows the artist to view the world and its mundane objects in a unique and inventive way. It can be interpreted in countless ways, continually challenging the viewer to understand. Abstract art can be viewed from numerous angles and perspectives; in many cases, changing the orientation of the image also changes its interpretation. Aaron Siskind’s abstract photography has greatly inspired me to see the world in a new and creative way.

Link to Aaron Siskind's images and information: http://www.aaronsiskind.org/images.html

Time: Justin Stapp

While lots of people say photography is about light, I say there is also another power at play: Time.  Photographic images wouldn't exist without light, but in the same aspect could you say the same about an image's existence in respect to time? I guess it is one of those chicken or the egg moments. The more I think about it though I know time has a huge influence on whatever photograph one may look at. Time within the artist's life, the time it took to make the image, the timing of the moment the image was taken. Anyway you look at it, time had an influence. Photographers have always studied light. What about the study of time, like the image I have made, a construct of time if you will. I tried to compress my bike commute time into one single frame.  If you are intrigued you might enjoy taking a look at Michael Wesely's work and study of time where he takes exposures years at a time.

Cold: Jason DeWitt

Ice crystals form like tiny spider webs over a cold surface.  Obscuring the view of what lies behind as though nothing else matters except ice itself.  But ignorance, and arrogance are their downfall. For their very existence depends on the cold, and a small amount of heat would destroy them.

Window - Blair Bost

This is a bit of an abstraction of window.

It can be a confusing photo at first, but it ties into the theme.

The bottom shape is a reflection through a window. From across the street, a motorcycle is parked with it's mirror directed so perfectly at my window. The natural light is reflected from the mirror to a mirror in my apartment, back onto the wall facing it.

The top shape is a circular mirror reflecting light from the window.

The only photoshop editing I did was darkening the area around the shapes to increase visibility, as well as turning the image black and white.

Blair Ryukyu Bost

RyukyuPhotography@gmail.com

Texture -Beäte Burgess

Abstract design and implied texture that the human form can create when conforming itself into juxtaposed positions. Organic lines outline the textural surface and suggested tactile feel of the body, revealing the potential essence of who this may be.

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