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This photograph explores tone and highlights the contrast created by just using a backlight and shining it on the paper. The shadow is emphasised due to the lack of light that is shining on it. The texture and orientation of the gradual bend of the paper is only slightly picked up. This helps to abstract the object, making it seem more ambiguous.
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Part of the beauty of abstraction is that it holds the ability for the mind to see new things. For me abstract images go further than just resembling different objects. They make me see different scenes, scenarios and create a whole new world or place before you. This is how I respond to photograph 9. This photograph reminds me of a desert. The thin waving sands, and the soft yellows and oranges are perfectly highlighted for me. The sand is described in the long gradual curve of the paper, sloping slowly downward and settling in a large bulk of shade. This photograph looks nothing like a desert, but it has the qualities of one, it makes my imagination wander into the prospect of imagining something that is not there. Transforming an object into something that it is not is the goal when abstracting and in 9 I feel that has been achieved well. I have had people tell me that some of these photographs look like close ups of Saturn. This is more evidence of how abstract forms are a instigator to a vast range of inspiration. It proves how one thing can look like a different thing to any different person. It shows that abstract forms are such a personal sub-genre of photograph.
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