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Tips from a Pro: Shooting Abstract Images

I needed a change of pace. They’re completely different from my usual work. Typically, I do luxury-brand product and cosmetic photography, and paper and cardboard fine-art pieces that I design, build, and photograph. They’re essentially still lifes of specific objects that I carefully light, often with lots of compositing in post. So I wanted a break. I wanted to try something looser—ambiguous pictures with unidentifiable subjects. For me, it was a way of getting away from clean lines and lots of structure. I experimented. I went to hardware and art supply stores, and bought a bunch of things: inks, paints, solvents. Then I took them into the studio to see what would happen. It was a lot of trial and error. I would have two brands of eye shadow that looked similar and should have photographed similarly, but when I started playing with them, each reacted very differently. I played around to see what I liked. For the cosmetics, the idea was to paint with eye shadow or lipstick on a black plastic tray. I’d crush and smear lipstick, for example. Then I might add a thinning agent like water or rubbing alcohol, and see what happened. I’d tilt or spin the tray to add line and a suggestion of movement.Each evolved differently and, when I look at them now, I sometimes can’t remember what the actual subject was. Yes. That was liberating, too. For most of my commercial work, the lighting is the hard part. For lots of products, it’s all about the lighting. It has to be clean, subtle and mood-setting. With abstractions, I don’t have to obsess so much about it. The energy of the subject’s lines and the dynamics of its shapes are my subjects, and they can be communicated with relatively simple, even lighting. The technique was to shoot straight down at the subject, and I lit all the abstractions with Speedotron 4803cx packs with the 102 heads. For some of these I lit through a scrim, and for others I bounced the light off a large white board above the subject. I blacked out the rest of the room to kill any reflections. It’s actually a setup you might use for copy work, only a little softer. I didn’t want any funky shadows or anything like that. It depended on the image. There was no formula, and as each evolved, I really had no idea if I’d print it in color or black-and-white. I wasn’t too hung up on the color-versus-b&w question. I’d play with the image on the computer, and it was usually quickly obvious what worked best one way or the other.

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WELCOME Nailed is my blog for posting nail art, nail polish swatches, tutorials, and whatever else I might post. I'm no professional, this is just a hobby I've had since early 2010, so the difference between this blog and the other nail blogs all over the internet is simply that I barely know what I'm doing. Please enjoy, and feel free to replicate any of the looks I post, all I ask is you don't steal my photos.

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