Lines, Shapes, Forms and Light

In this post I explore how light combined with the lines of a subject give it dimension or form.  The understanding of line, shape, form and light is one of the many basic principles of photographic composition.

When we talk about shapes in photography, it is simply the two dimensional outline of a subject.  However, the three dimensional shape of a subject is created through the use of light and shade.   Light coming from the side of your subject creates shadows and they give the shape a form as opposed to front lighting.  However, sometimes it is the lines as opposed to the light that seems to give the subject a form.

I have found that building structures are perfect examples to demonstrate this subject.  The images presented here are an assembly of lines and forms of basically architectural subjects, where lines of the structures combined with lighting take basic shapes and add dimension to the subjects.

I feel that black and white photography gives a much more dramatic effect to architectural subjects.   All of the images here were shot using a Sony A7II camera.  All comments about this post can be addressed to me at my email address:  nymacc@gmail.com.   

Midnight Dreams

It has been said that it is within the mind where photographic images are created not the camera.  In this blog post I use photography to take you the viewer to a different visual place.

Surrealism started as a cultural movement in 1917 and by 1924 it became seen in the photography of Man Ray through the use of double exposure, montage and solarization.  Surrealism in photography deals with distorted reality.  There is a certain visual confusion, however, a narrative develops through examination of the components of the image and not all viewers may experience the same narrative.

So are these distorted perceptions of reality or a wider matrix of our social being turned into a visual blur of our private thoughts?  In this post I experiment with the combining of various images to create dream like photographs.  While this particular style of photography may not be something everyone wants to pursue, it can be an interesting departure from whatever you choose as the norm.  These images are my “Midnight Dreams” and a trip into the photographic world of surrealistic photography.

I think if you are an artist you are not so much interested in the reality of what you are looking at, but more about interpreting the reality that the subject projects.  All the images were shot using a Sony A7II camera, some of the distorted perceptions of reality created in Photoshop and others in camera.  I can be reached for comments at nymacc@gmail.com