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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 11, 2011, 08:18:10 am

Title: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 11, 2011, 08:18:10 am: Hi all,

I took these a while ago, I like abstracts but I realise they are not to everyone's taste, what are your thoughts on these and this kind of imagery?

Photobloke
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: RSL on February 11, 2011, 08:21:24 am: Good shooting, Bloke. That's seeing!
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Post by: PeterAit on February 11, 2011, 08:33:17 am: These are great, I love this sort of minimalist/semi-abstract work.
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Post by: William Walker on February 11, 2011, 09:44:55 am: That first picture (10.jpg). The one I would love to have taken...
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Rob C on February 11, 2011, 12:28:39 pm: Quote from: W. Walker on February 11, 2011, 09:44:55 am
That first picture (10.jpg). The one I would love to have taken...

+1

Anything with the words Gug. has been done to death, like that collection of slipped and crumpled tin disks in Bilbao.

Rob C
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 11, 2011, 12:34:29 pm: Quote from: photobloke on February 11, 2011, 08:18:10 am
Hi all,

I took these a while ago, I like abstracts but I realise they are not to everyone's taste, what are your thoughts on these and this kind of imagery?

Photobloke
They're very good. I like the minimalism and particularly the first shot.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: popnfresh on February 11, 2011, 01:13:26 pm: All three are very good. #2 is good enough to appear in a promotional brochure for the Guggenheim. Excellent work.
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Post by: Alistair on February 11, 2011, 05:32:12 pm: All very very nice images. The first one though is just sublime. Well done.
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Post by: wolfnowl on February 12, 2011, 12:33:22 am: Nicely done, but I'd like the first one better if the gray bar (ceiling?) at the top was removed. I'm not talking about cutting it off, just making it a seamless white to the top of the frame.

Mike.
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 13, 2011, 12:14:43 pm: Hi all,

Thanks for the kind words, I've had these images languishing on my work PC for quite a while now and everyone who saw them, didn't seem to appreciate them, so I sort of gave up trying to do this kind of thing, but if you like them, then I feel inspired to try and do a few more.

Thanks again.

Photobloke.
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 13, 2011, 02:54:39 pm: I like them, and I think Mike's suggestion is a good one. Making the upper area match the lower one in tonality will strengthen it, IMHO.

Eric
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: EduPerez on February 14, 2011, 02:55:25 am: Another applause for the first one!
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Post by: NikoJorj on February 14, 2011, 03:47:25 am: Another applause (even if it's a landscape sensu lato)!

In the same broad genre, you may be interested in Gianni Galassi's work : http://giannigalassi.typepad.com/ .
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 14, 2011, 08:12:21 am: Quote from: NikoJorj on February 14, 2011, 03:47:25 am
Another applause (even if it's a landscape sensu lato)!

In the same broad genre, you may be interested in Gianni Galassi's work : http://giannigalassi.typepad.com/ .

Thanks for the link and yes I do like his work and cannot wait to get out there and take some more for myself..

Photobloke
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: RSL on February 14, 2011, 10:50:45 am: ;D
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 14, 2011, 01:56:36 pm: Nice one, Russ.
But where are the people? ;)

Eric
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: RSL on February 14, 2011, 02:02:52 pm: Eric, In front of the radiator shooting a picture.
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 14, 2011, 03:06:25 pm: Quote from: RSL on February 14, 2011, 02:02:52 pm
Eric, In front of the radiator shooting a picture.
Touché.

Here's one of my tar pix.

Eric
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Rob C on February 14, 2011, 03:14:20 pm: Quote from: RSL on February 14, 2011, 10:50:45 am
;D

Hot Damn! And the first thing I was looking for was the name of the car! (Loud crash of dropping penny.)

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Rob C on February 14, 2011, 03:15:26 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 14, 2011, 03:06:25 pm
Touché.

Here's one of my tar pix.

Eric

Come on, Eric, you got that off a Chinese lantern!

Rob C
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: RSL on February 15, 2011, 03:59:11 pm: Knot or not knot?
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: jule on February 19, 2011, 10:29:41 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 14, 2011, 01:56:36 pm
Nice one, Russ.
But where are the people? ;)

Eric

Russ cropped them out. ;D ;D ;D

Julie
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 19, 2011, 11:45:17 pm: Quote from: jule on February 19, 2011, 10:29:41 pm
Russ cropped them out. ;D ;D ;D

Julie
Of course!

Eric
Title: Re: Abstracts in Black and White (not a landscape)?
Post by: donaldt on February 20, 2011, 01:38:30 am: very very cool!
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Post by: armand on February 20, 2011, 04:33:00 pm: few from Native American Museum, in Washington. Has something similar to Guggenheim.