Abstract Nature Photography Tips
We can create truly outstanding images from our nature photography subjects with abstract nature photography.
You may be curious how to best combine what you know about abstract photography with your already fine nature photography techniques to come up with abstract nature photography photos…
I’ll present five abstract nature photography tips, techniques, and ideas that give you a place to jump off. Let’s get started!
What is Abstract Nature Photography?
To define abstract nature photography, we look at what might be considered as abstract art in general and how it relates to abstract photography.
From Wikipedia:
“Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.”
Thus, abstract photography may not represent what is actually seen, but it’s often based on what we observe in the world around us (look at the image above of Antelope Canyon.) I like to describe abstract photography as showing us what else is in those scenes in front of our eyes, whether it’s a detail of that view or an idea in our mind.
Nature photography is a pictorial representation of the natural world, be that plants, animals, the sky, the ocean, and anything else not man-made. It can include man-made things, but the image's main focus is something not man-made.
Combine the main ideas of abstract photography with the main focus of nature photography, and have abstract nature photography, a pictorial representation of aspects of nature that may or may not correlate with what we can see with our own eyes.
Confused? Don’t be. Almost any idea you might have concerning abstract nature photography will probably work on some level. You just have to try your hand at it. Read More…
