Yesterday afternoon, I took a walk up the “wild” section of Brimstone Corner to work on the 2016 edition of my Autumnal Abstract series.
This is my third year of making Autumnal Abstracts; here are the 2014 and 2015 versions.
All of these photo are made using a slow shutter speed* and deliberate movement of the camera. A moderate telephoto lens (a zoom set to 80 mm this year) was used. The maxim “less is more” seems to hold here. Thus, the narrow field of view of a telephoto seems to work better than a wider lens.
The resulting exposures are unpredictable and irreproducible; this is what makes it fun!
Processing in the computer is limited to the usual adjustments (black and white point setting, contrast adjustment and cropping). The “abstractness” comes from the camera not the computer.
This year I seem to favor the very abstract with swaths of bold color.
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However, there were a few less abstract frames that caught my eye as well.
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* Typically the shutter speed is in the range of one to four seconds. A neutral density filter is used to achieve these shutter speeds.