February Photography Challenge: "TAKE TWO"

Hold on to your lens caps folks, we are going to try something different this month in the photo challenge.  It is a challenge that requires TWO images. The idea is to take a photo of an image and then in a second photo abstract the original.  The actual object in the photo can be of anything you like. We are looking at figurative painting this month in the Picasso challenge so if you like you could tie into that theme and take a body part shot (no blatant nudity please). You could also make use of a  mannequin or statue ,whatever inspires you is cool, it doesn't have to be a body shot. The term Figurative actually applies to any object not just the human form, as is commonly thought, The exercise is mainly an exploration of the contrast between realism and abstraction, allowing for two diversely opposed perceptions of the same object.
 
Ways to abstract the second image could be by such means as:

-photoshop (ie alter colour, focus, saturations, cropping etc…)
- take a second shot but alter angle, lighting or distance  (ie macro shot)
 
 Go wild. When you post your results, we ask that you post both of the shots, the original one and the abstracted one. Hence the name “Take Two”.  Thanks to Nicole there is now an Image Editor tab on the header of the site that some of you may want to play with for this challenge. Have fun!!!!







 

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Johnson on February 27, 2010 at 3:56am
Really cool tunnel effect that draws you right into the painting to focus on the image of the woman and the yellow on her top. Nice one!!!!
Permalink Reply by Cy on February 26, 2010 at 9:40pm
I've been playing again...............

From this original...............


To this abstractly altered one........

Permalink Reply by Danielle Evans on February 26, 2010 at 10:05pm
That is so cool! My eye wants to make pictures out of some of the bigger blobs. Maybe if you did a painted version you could add (animals?) images to the work there.
Permalink Reply by Cy on February 26, 2010 at 11:00pm
Ooooh yes, now you mention it ........... I can see a cow and a dog and a beetle and a penguin and a.............etc.
Permalink Reply by Wendy Johnson on February 27, 2010 at 3:54am
love the colours and geometric pattern of tis one!
Permalink Reply by Cy on February 26, 2010 at 11:08pm
These are cool too..........and from the same original as above.




But I may have to rename this thread "Take Three or Four" just to satisfy my playful abstractions.

(are your eyes playing tricks on you with that middle pic above? It's like an optical illusion that keeps drawing me in to the centre)
Permalink Reply by Diana on February 27, 2010 at 3:49am
52 telecaster


altered tele

Permalink Reply by Wendy Johnson on February 27, 2010 at 3:55am
Coolio, diggin the collage looking pieces.
Permalink Reply by Diana on February 27, 2010 at 5:54am
Here's one of my guitars taken in an angled part of a room.


Blue Period


Red Period

Mo MapesPermalink Reply by Mo Mapes on February 27, 2010 at 7:43am
Excellent idea!!!!!
Permalink Reply by Wendy Johnson on February 27, 2010 at 8:36am
Oooooo, I like the red period!!!
Permalink Reply by Dana Hileman on February 27, 2010 at 3:20pm
Before I even joined this site, I had a ball doing this sort of thing, but this challenge gave me a little more push. Changes were done in Photoshop.
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