Abstraction: Set 1 Red Selection

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I chose these 3 photos out of all of the photos because I felt that these photographs are some of the best depictions of my vision and artistic intent in evoking complexity with interconnectedness. Although I feel that there is certainly room for improvement with these pictures, due to the constraints that I was under to take these photos, I still think that they are of enough quality and interest to circumvent the odd texture of the photograph.

For this photo, I attempted to capture how the outline of the trees creates a sense of depth and complexity while maintaining some aesthetic effect with the way that the trees are dividing up the picture. Although not perfect, I am happy with how I managed to capture the lines (seemingly) in the middle layer of trees managed to create outlines of trees, allowing it to be expressed in a complex manner yet resembling something very typical in life. The outline of the trees in both layers also produces a shape that is reminiscent of a squiggly line, which produces an interesting effect. I personally enjoy my use of tone in this picture which, although digitally modified, produces an effect of contrast between the three layers within the photograph, emphasizing its presence and furthering my artistic vision.

Abstraction: Set 1 Green Selection

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For my Green selection, I chose pictures that are more fitting of my vision and artistic direction in how I want to evoke the feeling of complexity. I also chose pictures that are of higher quality in line with the artistic direction I aim to take with certain photographs.

I also aimed to capture abstraction within these pictures. Most of these evoke the feeling of abstraction through their complexity being depicted in an abstract manner, which is one of the reasons I chose these images over some of the others which, in my opinion, were a bit too realist for the purpose of this unit.

In most of these photos, one element is predominantly portrayed. Although this depends a lot the picture, most of these elements include shape, lines and a bit of pattern.