Behind These Abstract Works 02

Here is Wheat Wave.

It’s not the original colors, I did some post-processing which made it more yellowish, and I increased clarity to texturize it which made it more like the WHEAT.

Of course, it - the ideal- did not appeared in my head when I took this shot, at that time I looked at LCD of my camera just felt it could be a interesting shot full of texture. I stared it for a long time and an ideal came out - yes, wheat wave!

Since the subject is considered, there is only one way to go, post-process it.

Behind These Abstract Works 01

I added a new category recently into my galleries named Nature’s Palette, those works are abstract, in the next several posts I’ll explain the creating process and connotations of them.

As a photographer we always want to leave our safety zone and seek some breakthrough of our Classic Style, I choose abstract as a new route to expand my photograph life. Having over a decade years’ graphic designer experience, my sensitivity of colors is an advantage to photography, and I love nature / landscape photography, so I decided to give my new route the name of Nature’s Palette.

Here is the first picture of my new style, and having the same name of this gallery. I used colorful Lupins and the background trees to create it. Lupins are the most ideal objects of my subject, they have all kinds of colors on color wheel and that makes them a perfect match of the theme - Nature’s Palette. I adjusted the shutter speed carefully to create brush-like patterns, and the movement of camera was designed to make those patterns more natural as oil colors. In post-processing, I enhanced the tonal contrast and saturation, that made the colors and texture more vivid and sensitive.

Nature’s Palette

Nature’s Palette

里人格的语言系统

这个全球性灾难到现在都还没有过去,国外的风景摄影师们也都在家憋得慌,不过他们还有自己的优势——有花园。像我这种人是决计买不起房子的别说还带个花园了,我以后可能会住在某个废弃花园角落也说不定,几个纸箱一点报纸,能稍微遮风挡雨就算是完美人生了。也许,那样的日子也不错,真正的生死置之度外,每天只想着吃点就行。

一直都在写英文博客,偶尔也想写写母语的。

一个有趣的事情,我发现自己独自在外拍摄的时候是喜欢自言自语的,像是和别人对话一般(也许就是和我的里人格?)分析这个角度不好啦,那个光线太强啦,需要上滤镜啦等等,而且自言自语用的是——英语。不过身边只要有别人在,我就会和人家说中文,比如夫人在身边,我会跟她说光线太强需要滤镜,这里构图不行等等,但是没人的情况下就开始说英语了,也许我的里人格喜欢英语?这个情况从高中开始就有了,高中时独自骑自行车回家的时候喜欢自言自语,那个时候也是说的英语,我当时把这个情况归结为学英语的需要,毕竟要面对高考,现在看根本不是这样。

在进行艺术创作的时候,按照道理说是进入右脑模式,此时不应该有左脑的语言系统介入,因为这会很容易导致退出感性的右脑模式进入理性,不过我在创作时一边在用右脑进行色彩构图光线等感性的认知,一边在用左脑将右脑的感性认知和判断用不属于自己母语的语言翻译出来,这运算量很大,加重了身体的负担,应该是我容易疲劳的原因吧。

嗯,我这种怪人是不是应该被送到某地下实验室里面被解剖分析?(最近NF剧集看多了……)

(题外话:最近Netflix港区在封锁土耳其地区注册的NF账号,我的也是土区注册的,所以没有办法看港区了,但是其它地区没有出现这个情况,毕竟港区心想,你们都是在土耳其花钱却跑到我港区这边取货,我们虽说是一家,但是收入是单独核算的,中国人又多,带宽资源真耗不起,封!)