Weekly Abstract and Experimental Thread #12 (6-10-2025)

The weekly Abstract and Experimental thread
This weekly thread, starting on a Tuesday, allows us to showcase our abstract and experimental photos and get some feedback.
Opening up discussions, not only on content, style, composition & techniques, but also on the creativity of the image.

It’s easy to participate
Post an image with a title and description. To make it easier to view in the forum, all comments should include the original title and at least one of the original images as a quote.

Thread Guidelines:
This weekly thread is for sharing and developing abstract and experimental photography skills.
We want to see wild, creative photography.
Give your entry a clear title and mention the technique used.
Provide constructive feedback on others’ images.
Try to go beyond simple praise or dismissal and explain why you like it, or what caught your eye.
”Likes” are encouraged too.
Negative feedback and suggestions are also OK (be polite, honest, and constructive).
Giving feedback is just as important as receiving feedback, both help to improve our artistic and technical skills.

What is an abstract or experimental photo?
Different ways to see and investigate the world around us. Abstract photography reduces a subject to shapes, tones or colors making it unrecognizable. Abstract subjects are everywhere.

Experimentation might include, Infrared, dragged shutter, zone plate, motion, 3D, fluorescence, multiple exposure, birefringence, ultra violet, optical including adapted lenses, tri color, fractals, manipulated Polaroids, pinhole, Kirlian (bioelectrography) and many other methods. Experimentation can be for artistic expression or pure science. It is often more difficult than standard types of photography. This is fine, we aren't expecting perfection. Every experiment enhances knowledge. Your idea can help others explore the universe around them. We love experimentation. You can explain your process or keep it a secret.

This will be a looser collection of photos compared to other weekly threads. This is good. It will be a place to get away from standard animals, babies & sunset photos. We don't hate animals, babies or sunsets. Show us your creative abstract and experimental images.

Thanks for looking and participating,
barondla

An experiment using electronic flash with a fisheye lens. Pentax Q7 with Pentax Q fisheye. The fisheye doesn't have a built in leaf shutter like the expensive Pentax Q lenses. Q bodies don't have a focal plane shutter so this is using the electronic shutter. 1/13 is the fastest read speed for the electronic shutter and flash. The lens only has one aperture and it is F5.6. The fisheye lens was very close to the flower.
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barondla

Old Valve Radio - Multiple exposure, front and back with the cover off flipped so things align.

An old favorite from Sky Lake, home of some of the oldest trees in the US. Too swampy for the early logging of the Mississippi delta, it has been protected by the same family for the past 150 years and is now a state preserve.

Like lots of swamps Sky Lake is very still making for interesting opportunities for reflections. This is as-shot but turned upside down. I've made some options with darker or more creative colors but liked the original, which is how it is in spring, a hot lime color with yellowish water that reflects the sun in patches.

Arco

I've been sitting on this image for a very long time. I've never used it anywhere before this.

At the 1982 Summer Olympics on the grounds of the Los Angeles Colosseum, the scene was pure festive magic. The entire park was festooned with enormous silk and Dacron banners and flags of incredibly-saturated primary and non-primary colors. I had never seen such intense, bright hues of orange, turquoise, teals, yellow-greens, as well as intensely-saturated blues and reds. Color was everywhere, adorning everything.

This image is of a towering, billowing fabric decoration on one side of the Arco Oil Company pavilion.

The weather that week was a particularly intense "Santa Ana" condition with afternoon temperatures of 105-110 F and humidity levels in the single digits, making the cloudless skies intense blue and the air crystal clear. The light was magic. It was almost a psychedelic experience.

Kodachrome 64.

Rich

Great image, very green :-)
Turning it upside down make it work so well!

Fabulous multi exposure and results. Love the old radio and vacuum tubes. Great subject. Do you restore these radios and is extremely precise rotation required to get everything matched up? Cool concept and execution.
Thanks for sharing and participating,
barondla

This has a tranquil, Japanese art print vibe. Swamps are fantastic places. Did you have to wait a long time for motionless water?
Thanks for sharing and participating,
barondla

Vibrant and dynamic. For me, this is almost like an optical illusion. When I look at the picture the red parts seem to move. Amazing.
Thanks for sharing and participating,
barondla

Otherworldly. It could be waiting for the mothership to return.

Great color.

Rich

Very clever double exposure. At first I thought I was simply seeing the interior lit by the hot tubes through the grille cloth.

I can smell the hot fabric, plastics and other construction elements of the radio's box construction just looking at this.

Rich

Great eye in seeing the possibilities in this shop and turning it upside-down.

Swirling and mesmerizing. It's mysterious, beautiful, disturbing, restful . . . all at the same time.

Rich

Yes, I notice that, too. I think it has something to do with the type of monitor and the way our eye reacts to highly saturated light sources of certain colors against each other, especially the red and blue pixels of our monitors. Something about "safe" color combinations of RGB LCD screens.

Rich

reflections of the mundane

A shot I took in the train of the reflection of my water bottle. The doubled glass of the window, while often annoying when trying to capture the outside world, really helped create the imagine in this case.