Contact Sheet:

                     “YELLOW” contact sheet:

 

My vision is to show and capture the hidden beauty in everyday life moments that could easily be missed or slipped away. Combined with Uta Barth’s unique style of out of focus and exquisite light use, I want to create images that are challenging the traditional views of visual perception meanwhile beautiful and unique in its own way. I chose these images because they are all under the category of my vision and are all considered abstract photography.

              “GREEN” contact sheet:

 

The approach I was going with these set of pictures was making them mostly out of focus. As well as the lighting in each images, I intended to imitate Barth’s style of the use of Focus and Light. As you can see, each images I took could be considered as an sight that normally you would just walk pass or see but just glance by. All of these images can be found easily,  but I intend to capture these moments that could be overlooked and try to explore the beauty within it. By blurring out the details of these moments, the thing that our eyes originally sees which makes up the “boring images”, light, suddenly stands out. For example if you look at photo 8 and 9,  when you look upon the sunset clouds or the sidewalk lights slowly turning on as darkness sets in, you would view it as another casual evening night. But when the it is out of focus and what “matters” is disappears and the fundamentals of what makes up an image appear, viewers will now take time to examine the photo more carefully and perhaps even have their own interpretations after seeing the scene with another perspective.

        “RED” contact sheet:

Following my vision of challenging the traditional views of visual perception meanwhile capturing the hidden beauty in everyday life moments that could easily be missed or slipped away, I used out of focus and the exploration of light to make what seems to be an everyday moment become something more. By blurring out the details of these moments, the thing that our eyes originally sees which makes up the “boring images”, light, suddenly stands out. Take Photo 1 as an example (my personal favorite): when I was first taking this photo, I thought the car and evening lights were interesting so I tried to capture it. It was pretty challenging because I had to wait for cars to come by and I also had to blur the focus myself because there was something wrong with the camera. But eventually, I found the “money shot” and got the image. As you can, the texture of the lights after being blurred looks very abstract and interesting. Especially the car light at the bottom left conner which projected a weak but visible string of light, combined with the out of focus, created a sense of mystery and a dream-like ambiance.

Although I took a couple of successful photos in the span of two trips,  I have to admit that I was just wondering around most of the times looking for interesting scenes to capture. It was pretty time-consuming so perhaps next time I could have a more specific idea in mind when taking photos and be more organized.