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More Shapes And Colors

This week, I continued my journey of photographing shapes and colors, then tried to create an interesting multi-image composition. This one falls into the minimalist style. I took a photo of a simple brushstroke whose shape caught my attention. The red color didn’t hurt either. I also took a photo of a yellow background. I then combined the two and duplicated, transf...


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Shapes And Colors

Most of the time, when I am going out to photograph abstracts, I am trying to make the image with either a single exposure or a multiple exposure. It is not very common for me to make single exposures with the intention of combining them in Photoshop. But as a bit of a challenge to myself, that is exactly what I did on my last photo outing. More specifically, I wante...


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New Life

When I’m processing my multiple exposure abstracts, I don’t typically see ‘a thing’ in the image right away. When trying to come up with a title for the photo, I often look at the image until I start to see something and use what I see to inspire the title. But every so often, I do immediately identify an object in the image even before processing it fully.


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"Surrender To Your Mediocrity”

What now??!! That doesn’t sound like a good thing. And yet it was advice given in a painting course that I’m taking. And the advice is, I feel, actually quite good. Excellent even. It just depends on how you interpret the statement. Do take note, though, that it says to surrender to your mediocrity and not to mediocrity in general. Am I spli...


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Looking For Minimalism

I had been feeling a bit uncreative. That, of course, happens. And then I happened to attend an online talk about minimalist photography. I enjoyed the idea of using blocks of color and shape to achieve a minimalist look. So on a trip to the museum, I combined several multiple burst exposures to attain this image.

I usually try to avoid going out with...


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