This is a perfectly natural nature image, but has an abstract, OOTB element, hence I'm here! We had torrential rain and thunder the night before and I noticed in one drying puddle on Bonaventure Island that an earthworm had decided to be an artist!
I chose an angle that gave the best light and relief. Small crop from the bottom. Upped the Vibrance and colour temp. a little in ACR. Sharpen. Nothing else.
Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: EF70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM, @ 116 mm
Program: Aperture Priority
ISO 800, 1/160s, f/9
Exp. comp.: +0.3
Flash: off
I do think the trails work but something about the pattern is off for me too. Do you have more room? I often find abstracts are a first impression thing......you either love it right away.....or don't. At least that happens with me most of the time!
Maybe tighter? Missed question on focal point....sorry....and area for your eye to rest on. If my eye wanders around the scene.....it wants to come to rest somewhere in the scene and not continually "wander". It could be something as simple as the intersections in a ROT or power point position.......similar to the eye if a bird or animal in that point. Make sense?
Last edited by Roman Kurywczak; 07-20-2011 at 02:51 PM.
Great! Often times it is intangible.....as many abstracts have a "flow" to them and that becomes the focal point. I do believe this is where the art part comes in many times and to you for exploring! Ask 10 people.....and you may get 10 different answers on this!
OK Roman, I've thought about this a bit more and although I view the image as a texture with no real "focal point", what draws my eye is the oblong "coming together", centre left. Maybe it's in the wrong place in the frame.
This is very nice, John. Great OOTB vision to see and capture this. I like the earthly color and I can see some differential geometric patterns (just as Roman predicted there will ten different answers to focal point for the abstract ). Paul's Worm Art looks excellent too...
John, I used the Radial Blur zoom effect (about 90% on slider) from CS5, on the original image. Enlarged the imaged. Then pasted your original image back in to fit.
worm trails in mud
to you for exploring! Ask 10 people.....and you may get 10 different answers on this!
...Paul
