Here are some of the photos I took in school as replacement on the day of the 798 trip which was cancelled.

I narrowed it down to the ten better ones. A lot of it were taken inside the dome as I tried to explore the use of space and angles, combining that with some aspects of architecture. I chose these mainly because they seemed interesting to look at and it also felt cool.

The final three photographs I chose are the outside of a building, a view of a tennis court, and a blurred image of the net from the side.

These are the photos that make up my contact sheet. Taken at 798 it focuses on architectural photography and some of it is inspired by the photographer Steven Longbottom.

Here is the yellow set which is the final ten photos I chose. These stood out to me the most in all of the photos due to the angles, the objects in the photo, and the elements included including the color, shape, and pattern.

Here are the final few photos chosen

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These are my final three

Steven Longbottom is a professional photographer in Manchester. His work focuses on architectural photography.

Here are 8 of his photos:

https://isbeijing.padlet.org/timothywang6/my-glorious-padlet-n23ygndgxig30uop

Formal elements: lines and shapes

Worked: The photo is divided at the center and there is a clear line down the middle

Formal elements: Shapes

Didn’t work: These two share some level of similarity, but don’t think I was able to replicate the original

Formal elements: texture

Worked: The two share a similar texture although color is quite different

Formal elements: pattern and lines

Didn’t work: this does not really resemble any sort of pattern

Formal elements: lines

Worked: the lines are aligned and the spacing is accurate and it is equally abstract

Formal elements: shape

Didn’t work: the ball is not a circle but a sphere and there shouldn’t be any shades in the background as it should be white

Formal elements: lines

Worked: it worked in

Formal elements: pattern, shapes

Didn’t work: The colors are similar but it’s presented in different shapes and the spacing is also different

Formal elements: pattern, lines, shapes

Worked: it shows the repetition of squares

Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines

Worked: it sort of worked as there were distinct lines but ot lacks uniformity

Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines

Didn’t work: The angles are inaccurate, the colors are off, and the shape is wrong

Formal elements: texture, lines

Worked: there is texture

Formal elements in photography means these six elements: line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus.

Line – Any type of line in a photo, it could come in any size or shape or color or form or pattern or texture or tone. Something that creates direction or is symbolic or something. Used for effect

Shape – Shapes in photography can be either geometric (straight edged and defined) or organic (curvy).

Pattern – Objects, shapes, or lines that repeat or creates a pattern. E.g. reflection, echo, maze

Texture – The feel of a photograph if it were tangible

Tone – Having a range of tones in a photo from dark to light. Shows value.

Focus – The level of clearness in a photograph, parts of a photo could be either sharp or blurry

TONE

SHAPE

FOCUS

PATTERN

LINE

“Abstract photography can be defined as capturing images in which the subject isn’t the most interesting element”?

I think what is meant by this quote is that abstract photography is largely based on the theme of abstraction rather than taking a photo of something in particular like a selfie or picture of a certain thing. I feel like abstract photography is taking photos of something undefined or uncertain that evokes feeling and thought to what it is and what it does and is a piece of art open to interpretation. Like the photo ‘Wrong’ the boundaries between what makes a good or bad photo is very ambiguous and therefore make it abstract