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Neon Rain 25 Part II
Following on from yesterday's post featuring four images of backlit rainwater pooled on glass, where I focused on the rainwater, I wanted to show how just the slightest change in focus can alter the outcome.
In these four images I manually focused beyond the glass and the effect is quite different, making the lights themselves more the subject while the water on the glass becomes a refraction filter.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #AbstractArt

Abstract image showing white and amber lights refracted through water falling onto glass to create a swirling, dancing pattern of shapes and colours.

Abstract image showing blue and turquoise lights refracted through water falling onto glass to create a swirling, dancing pattern of shapes and colours.

Abstract image showing white lights refracted through water falling onto glass to create a swirling, dancing pattern of shapes and colour.

Abstract image showing red and amber lights refracted through water falling onto glass to create a swirling, dancing pattern of shapes and colours.

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Pascal Schmid

@pascalschmid@pixey.org · 2 weeks ago

The low sun has drawn out the secrets of the snow.

#photography #abstractPhotography #blackAndWhitePhotography

Black/White shot of snow from above. The low sun reveals interesting patterns in the few inches of snow

Pascal Schmid

@pascalschmid@pixey.org · 2 weeks ago

The low sun has drawn out the secrets of the snow.

#photography #abstractPhotography #blackAndWhitePhotography

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Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 2 weeks ago

Neon Rain '25
Rainwater patterns on glass, backlit by multi-coloured lights.
Technique details in the Alt-text.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #Neon #WaterPhotography #NightPhotography

Abstract night-time image showing green and yellow lights in the background to create an abstract pattern from rainwater pooling on glass. The manual focus is sharply on the rainwater on the glass surface, which makes the lights in the background distort, blend and flare into beautiful, mesmerising patterns.

Abstract night-time image showing blood-red lights in the background to create an abstract pattern from rainwater pooling on glass. The manual focus is sharply on the rainwater on the glass surface, which makes the lights in the background distort, blend and flare into beautiful patterns.

Abstract night-time image showing blue and amber lights in the background to create an abstract pattern from rainwater pooling on glass. The manual focus is sharply on the rainwater on the glass surface, which makes the lights in the background distort, blend and flare into beautiful and subtle patterns.

Abstract night-time image showing blue and yellow lights in the background to create an abstract pattern from rainwater pooling on glass. The manual focus is sharply on the rainwater on the glass surface, which makes the lights in the background distort, blend and flare into beautiful patterns.

Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 2 weeks ago

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🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈

@Rihilism@toot.community · 3 weeks ago

Fall sumac kaleidoscope.

Aside from the interesting patterns, my favorite part of making these is looking for faces or creatures which you don't see until the composite is formed.

Do you see the pigs on their tippy toes?

#PhotoHour #abstract #AbstractPhotography #nature #Photography #AltText

Abstract photograph created using a single photo of fall sumac leaves and sumac branches. The sumac leaves extend along either side of a slender branch. Fall sumac leaves range from red to orange to yellow and in various combinations of those three colors. The photo is created by copying the original and then flipping the copy horizontally. The original and the copy are joined at the flip point and then both are copied, flipped vertically, and the resulting copies are then joined at the flip point. The result is four-quadrant image with each quadrant a mirror of the quadrants opposing it. The appearance is similar to what one would see in a four-mirror kaleidoscope. In addition to the realistic objects in each photo, the process creates multiple abstract objects especially at or near where one photo attaches to another.

Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 2 weeks ago

Neon Rain '25
Rainwater patterns on glass, backlit by multi-coloured lights.
Technique details in the Alt-text.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #Neon #WaterPhotography #NightPhotography

🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈

@Rihilism@toot.community · 3 weeks ago

Fall sumac kaleidoscope.

Aside from the interesting patterns, my favorite part of making these is looking for faces or creatures which you don't see until the composite is formed.

Do you see the pigs on their tippy toes?

#PhotoHour #abstract #AbstractPhotography #nature #Photography #AltText

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Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

Street Style
As one of the most popular genres, street photography comes in many different styles or sub-genres.
I'll end this series with probably my favourite style, Street: Abstracts.
I am comfortable photographing strangers but not everyone is, and in some countries it is even illegal.
Freed from that pressure, the abstract street photographer becomes absorbed in the colours, textures, patterns, reflections, light and shapes of the city.
#photography #StreetPhotography #AbstractPhotography

Ornate iron railings and a white building caught in bright sunlight are reflected in the shiny paintwork and window of a parked car in a largely monochrome image with just two tiny hints of colour, blue and red.

Lights from office buildings and a traffic light are reflected in vertical columns in the shining, rippled surface of a river running through a city centre, looking very much like an abstract painting

Taken in a Spanish marketplace the image consists of tiny silver fish which are arranged in a pleasing, cross-cross pattern on a stone slab.

Close-up image shows the subtle, swooping curves and brilliant red of a car's brake lights glowing in the dark of night

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Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 4 weeks ago

I had an hour to kill last night while waiting to collect my wife from Glasgow Central Station. It was raining heavily and the Christmas neon was lighting the streets. Be rude not to, eh?
#photography #neon #reflections #AbstractPhotography

Rainwater pooling on block paving captures and reflects red and yellow neon lights from a takeaway restaurant

Rain pooling on the curves of a parked car reflects red and blue neon lights from a bar nearby

A woman in high-heeled boots walks into a bar where the red neon light is reflected in the soaking wet pavement

Blue window lights from a tower block hotel reflect in a puddle rippled by heavy rain on a Glasgow street

Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

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Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 4 weeks ago

I was going through my archive to find out when I began taking more experimental rather than representational photographs and it seems something clicked in me around August 2018.
In this instance it was intentional camera movement, a technique I have often returned to.
Even more abstract techniques and styles followed. I still take 'normal' images but experimenting is what gets my juices flowing.
Here are four from that turning point.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #ExperimentalPhotography

Black and white image using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement showing two men walking past a shop window display which has a manga character wearing a straw boater and with his fist clenched and raised, as if punching the sky above the two passers-by

Black and white image using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement and showing a woman sat on a train with her head tilted away to her left and raised as she gazes at something out of the window

Black and white image using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement and showing an elegantly-dressed young woman with sunglasses on her head and a handbag over her arm moving swiftly at the left edge of an otherwise dark, empty alleyway

Black and white image using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement, showing a young woman carrying a cup of coffee in the foreground of a busy pedestrianised street full of people going about their business

Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 4 weeks ago

Steven Lawson Photography

@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social · 4 weeks ago

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Steven Lawson Photography

@stevenlawson@photog.social · 2 months ago

Experimentation is a huge part of photography for me.
For example, here I spent two hours holding my camera in the powerful flow of a freezing cold burn running high from recent rains.
I took more than 200 shots and have kept less than 20 due to the experimental nature of the session.

Hot tip: If you fancy trying this, don't fill your wellies almost immediately - it makes for a long day. 🙄🥶

#photography #AbstractPhotography #WaterPhotography #Bubbles #TG7

Bubbles created by the powerful force of water running over rocks in a stream are captured in close-up detail by my OM System TG7 camera held under water. The fill-in flash helps to highlight and freeze the individual bubbles, making them look like liquid metal.

Steven Lawson Photography

@stevenlawson@photog.social · 2 months ago

Hot tip: If you fancy trying this, don't fill your wellies almost immediately - it makes for a long day. 🙄🥶

#photography #AbstractPhotography #WaterPhotography #Bubbles #TG7

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Dorine2

@Kleinloog@pixelfed.social · 2 months ago

A cube mystery. An office building in Rotterdam, the a Netherlands. . The reflective cube gives the photo a certain ambiguous quality. It makes it hard to understand how it all fits together. At least, that's how it worked for me. #abstractphotography #abstractphotoart #abstractphoto #repetition #reflection #windowreflections #photography #fotografie #fediverse #rotterdam #nederland #architecture