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Finding the Picture with Brooks Jensen

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Finding the Abstract in the Details

The entire world is an abstract image in waiting.

As a lover of both creating and viewing abstractions from the world, I frequently find some object that I think might be photographable only to fine that the thing in front of me is photographically boring. Almost without exception however, if I spend some time looking more closely at some detail here or there, I'll find an abstract that really excited me. This tarp-covered boat in the Port Townsend shipyard looked interesting. Making the image below, I realized I wasn't all that keen on it as a totality. Looking more closely, however . . .

. . . and I found the stretched plastic was filled with patterns and details that might be usable in an abstract. The plastic was white, so the image below is obviously the result of lot and lots of tone pushing in the extreme. Here again, it's not what you take, but rather what you make that counts. Just for fun, scroll below to see the original of this dark abstract.

Tech data:

Panasonic G85 using a Panasonic Leica 12-60mm f/2.8-4 lens at 46mm. ISO 800. f/11 at 1/400th sec.