Behind These Abstract Works 03

May 18, 2020

I has stared at the original photo for a long time and still had no good idea about it, then I use my lightroom presets (created by me) to explore some possibilities. One of these presets draw my attention, it’s a monochrome preset which enhancing texture and clarity, that makes me recall the artist Zdzislaw Beksinski, a Polish painter who has many Gothic, surreal, doomsday works. He is my favouriest artist, inspired by his works I add some gore color to the monochrome version to express the moods of hell.

Then Ghosts From Hell created successfully.

Click HERE you can check some of his works, his website and wiki.

Behind These Abstract Works 02

May 12, 2020

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

May 06, 2020

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.