I called this image 'Sometimes it just works' and I made it yesterday. The story behind the image is not groundbreaking, I wasn't in a peak state nor was I inspired to make an abstract piece of art (you may not even see this image as art and that's totally fine - art has always been subjective - think Damian Hirst!)
In fact, this image happened completely by accident and that's why i like it and why I'm choosing to blog about it.
I was actually preparing to photograph a family for their daughter's graduation celebration, I had attached my 70-200 lens to my Nikon D700 and was just swinging the lens up to frame my scene. On the way up, my finger danced over the shutter and this frame was made. When I previewed what the law of randomness had committed to my camera's sensor, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw on the preview screen.
With a little bit of post production work in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I was able to find and make an image which appeals to my love of abstract images.
I think the point of my article here is to say how dynamic photography can be; when I first started making images, I limited myself creatively - I thought I had to make images like the ones in the instructional books that I was reading at the time. How wrong I was and I probably owe my photographic liberation to an amazing Candian photographer called Freeman Paterson, whose work I was instantly drawn to. After reading his books, I went out with my camera and started looking at things in a completely different way. I started seeing shapes, lines, patterns - a whole manner of things which started to interest me. If you have an interest in abstract art and how a camera can help you find these shapes, I urge you to check out Paterson's work as I'm sure you'll be amazed!
Photography is a truly amazing art form, one that keeps my eye constantly evolving and seeing the world in new ways and for that - I love my job as a Hull Wedding Photographer.
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