Weekly Abstract and Experimental Thread #13 (6-17-2025)

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

Wanted to photograph the bubbles in hand sanitizer. Bought the oval bottle with the flatest sides possible. Avoiding curved sides gives less distortion and sharper images. Shooting through the thick plastic bottle was bad enough.

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barondla

This one is a recent experiment. The technique has a name but I don't recall what it is. You go round and round the subject taking photos from every angle then you stack them in a layered stack. You can ask software to blend them but I seldom get a good result with that so I do it manually, fiddling with each layer's opacity and blending mode and crop. Then when I get a result I like collapse the layers and edit it, in this case with Silver Efex.

Great start so far! Keep posting pictures.
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barondla

I'd call this experiment a success. It creates an unusual view of a well known subject. Haven't seen this exact technique before and have no idea what it is called. I will give this a try.
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barondla

Excellent image. The rapid little ripples add nice distortion to the reflections. The long lens attains a great ratio of subject to surroundings.
Thanks for sharing and participating,
barondla