A Photographic Challenge

Saturday Ambassador

Looking for an interesting challenge for your photographic skills? Consider abstraction:

 

Abstract, Deva Mayorga-Malone, 2013, Digital composite

 

You can create it, as in the digital composite above, with Photoshop's blending modes, effects and a bit of imagination. Or, you can find it:

 

 

Industrial Abstract, Deva Mayorga-Malone, 2013, Digital photograph

 

Either way, learning to see abstraction is a very good artistic exercise and will expand your horizons as a photographer. Knowing what the subject is surpasses the point of such art; abstraction is in the approach, an intentional effort of the part of the photographer to display only certain characteristics or qualities of the subject.

 

If anyone would like to delve into the art of abstraction, email small JPEG files to ambassadorsaturday@gmail.com and I'd be pleased to display them in my next post. Please include your name with the image if you'd like credit for it.

 

~Saturday Ambassador