Abstract Flowers
With the advent of computer software to manipulation photos in the late 1980’s a new art form was created. For the first time the average photographer, for a reasonable cost, could manipulate their images in ways only the expert dark room technician could achieve. That’s not to say that all attempts at altering photos is good art but we are able to create interesting compositions.
The photograph presented here has a nice abstract feel along the lines of the early nineteenth century painters. The filter used gives movement to the scene with its elongated swelling lines of distortion. I like the dark path going up the center of the frame at an angle. It helps to accent the angle of perspective of the flowers on the right while the flowers on the left are a massive anchor of color.
The original photograph, while colorful, was probably a rather ordinary image. The computer manipulation was able to take a mundane scene and transform it into something more dramatic, if you don’t suffer from vertigo.
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March 14th, 2008 at 10:24 am
3/14/08
This is the original shot with a little color adjustment in PS. If you have ever driven on 101 in the Oxnard area you have probably seen those long white tent like structures. They are a form of hot house used to grow Tomatoes, and Flowers. I was at one that had a nice growth of flowers. I set my shutter speed at about 1 sec. maybe 1 1/2 sec. and as soon as the shutter opened rotated the whole camera. Presto here is the results.
Roy