Tag: abstract

Monochrome Monday: 1st June 2020

Post author By David M
Post date 01/06/2020
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Monochrome Monday travels back a couple of days to a walk around the neighborhood.

I was struck by the various shades of green of the newly opened Maple leaves. However, it was a grey, overcast day so rather than blue sky showing through the gaps in the branches it was featureless grey. So I decided to try a monochrome conversion using a red filter which increased the contrast between the various shades of green.

I rather like the way the leaves have become an almost abstract pattern with the branches giving a clue to what you’re looking at.

Monochrome Monday: 1st June 2020

Tags abstract, leaves, Maple, South Bruce Peninsula, spring

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

CFFC: Glasses, Cups or Saucers

Post author By David M
Post date 05/03/2020
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This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Glasses, Cups or Saucers.

Having been on a bit of a table top photography kick recently this was a good challenge for more messing around with unusual viewpoints and adapted lenses.

A nearly empty cup of coffee illuminated from below due to it sitting on my light table.

I thought the pattern of rings on this drinking glass was interesting.

Tags abstract, close-up, detail, minimalism, table top

Cosmic Photo Challenge

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature as Art

Post author By David M
Post date 03/02/2020
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This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature as Art prompt.

As soon as I read the prompt I had several ideas for the challenge. I decided that any effects in photos I selected had to be done in camera, no heavy editing to get an effect. I also decided that all the photos had to be square, although I can’t really explain that decision.

The centre of a Coneflower. A mix of subject and camera movement coupled with very thin depth of field from the high magnification macro lens.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature as Art

Autumn tree trunks. Subject isolation with a telephoto lens turns the tree trunks into a pattern.

October Squares: Lines of Tree Trunks

Isolating a small section of a sunrise with a telephoto lens turns it into a graphic image.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature as Art

Motion blurred tree trunks. An experiment with moving the camera vertically during exposure.

October Squares: Abstract Lines

Shadows of tree trunks across the snow. A straight forward shot with the fallen branch close to following the rule of thirds.

January Squares: Sidelight

Cloud movement over Colpoy’s Bay. A 60 second exposure at dawn allows the clouds to move across the sky and makes the water appear calm.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature as Art

Tags abstract, cloud, Colpoy's Bay, Coneflower, CosPhoChal, motion blur, OM Zuiko 38mm f/2.8 macro, shadow, sunrise, telephoto, trees, trunks

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Abstract

Post author By David M
Post date 03/12/2019
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A selection of images for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Abstract.

Motion blurred trees.

CFFC: Trees.

Autumn tree trunks.

The motion blurred centre of a Coneflower.

Coneflower detail

A small section of a sunrise isolated with a telephoto lens.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Angles.

Tags abstract, Coneflower, detail, Lens-Artists, motion blur, sunrise, trees, trunks

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

CFFC: Green

Post author By David M
Post date 01/11/2019
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This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green.

I discovered that I had rather a lot of green photos that would work for the challenge. So I decided to go with two very different photos featuring vastly different amounts of green.

One of my abstract trees created by vertically panning the camera during exposure.

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge: Green