On the way to Sheng Siong, Serangoon shot this staircase. I like abstracts with lines and curves. What do you think the image below?
You can also try shaking the camera, making sure it's out of focus, making sure the exposure is way off, etc.--- you never know what can pass off as "art" and "abstract"....
No offence, but thats the worst advice I think ive ever heard. There is no need to do this to get a 'passable' shot, and most likely the result will be god awful.
Try to find a more unique angle, play with the lines more, id suggest looking for a better staircase, there are some great ones in chinatown which look fantastic in black and white.
Please dont resort to shaking your camera, taking shots that are out of focus with the wrong exposure, you will most likely be wasting your time.
He might be trying to be sarcastic.
You can also try shaking the camera, making sure it's out of focus, making sure the exposure is way off, etc.--- you never know what can pass off as "art" and "abstract"....
You can also try shaking the camera, making sure it's out of focus, making sure the exposure is way off, etc.--- you never know what can pass off as "art" and "abstract"....
if you have no idea how you can help the critique seeker, please do not post useless comments.
warning issued.
please keep all discussions relevant to the critique of the picture posted.
1. This is not about sarcasm. It's about opening your mind to what "abstract" means.
2. A simple Google search of "abstract photographs" reveals many many links. The very first one is http://www.urban75.org/photos/abstract/thumbs.html. A few of the images below should illustrate my point:
http://www.urban75.org/photos/abstract/046.html
http://www.urban75.org/photos/abstract/047.html
http://www.urban75.org/photos/abstract/033.html
3. I'm sure you understand how Google organises search results (by popularity of links and clickthrus-- in this case, I doubt the guy paid for it).
4. The TS specifically asked about "abstracts". Art, esp abstract art, can be very "strange". I remember being in the Met in 2006, where there was a piece of blue cloth placed horizontally in a room with a couple of fans under it, and the effect was to blow the cloth upwards and downwards so that it was like waves in the ocean. The Met considered the fans and that flapping piece of cloth to be a masterpiece and paid a lot of money for it. So who are we to say what art can or cannot be, no matter how strange we may think it is?
5. In classical photography, we can talk about "rules" like the golden mean, 2:1 or 3:1 lighting ratio, 1/focal length min handholding shutter speed, stopping down for max depth of field, focusing on the eyes for portraits, not chopping off the limbs, etc. but these do not apply to abstract photography. I may not be an expert on abstract art, but I can see that a spirit of experimentation is necessary, the classical rules do not necessarily apply, much less its universal acceptability and understandability.
On the way to Sheng Siong, Serangoon shot this staircase. I like abstracts with lines and curves. What do you think the image below?
which simply means you have no idea what you were talking about when you tell TS to make sure he makes images that are out of focus and over exposed.