Derrek from the 2011 Beautiful Dog Walker Series of Photographs

Another component of special effects is Cubed or Particle or Confetti or Stained Glass style manipulations of conventional images and in this case it is, Derek. 

To my way of thinking, Derek is more beautiful than ever in these images from the ongoing collection:  The 2011 Beautiful Dogwalker Series of Photographs in Stained Glass and Confetti immediately above.  The pixels represent as cubes, confetti, glass, crystals depending on the degree of software manipulation. 

Will Derek recognize himself in these images? I think he will. The manipulation (or distortion) of the original image hopefully does not exceed what would allow for an honest recognition by the subject only.  Everyone else need only see that the subject is this or that, a male or female, perhaps. Alternatively, the abstraction can go to a very high or lesser degree which allows for a lot of decision making and part of the joy of working in special effects. 

You can have any number of manipulations from high to low abstraction and consecutively placed, they would tell an incremental story.  The original subject's conventional identity gets revealed at the end of the line (or at the beginning, depending)  whether the viewer knows the subject personally or not. 

Derek would be able to recognize himself more clearly at the end of the series of course, if the progression is from abstract to conventional portrait.  That makes for another consideration the photographer gets to make, a single image or a series and if a series in descending or ascending order of recognition? 

The images seen here aren't exactly the two extremes of high abstraction and conventional images. 

Abstractions such as these fall somewhere in the mid-range but, they do remind me to create one that follows the formula Pablo Picasso gave us in his Bull lithography series which does come to mind.

At a later date, I may post such a series of images for visitors and for Senor Picasso to see should he ever drop by my corner of the blogosphere to have a look.  Some visitors will be familiar with the Picasso, Bull lithography series mentioned above. 

I'm in Love with Blur

I do love blur art photography and now that summer is here, everyone I image can look that much more beautiful if they appear in blur.  I know blur not for everyone.  Some people say they have to visually strain too much to see what's happening but that's not the point. 

Visually straining to see what you won't be able to see is not the point of appreciating this style of photographic imaging and unconventional photography.  Blur provides a certain amount of mystery and erases the clarity and sharpness that is not always flattering to so many of us no matter what our age or state of affairs.

Think of blur as another way to receive the impressions of what should be within your capability to get the impression of in terms of the photographic.  Is it a scene, a person, male, female and so on?  Once you have the answer to that why need to see every feature clearly when you can have the impression that they present as with a gentler visual impact. 

Blur reminds me of poetry, the edges are off the prose and you get the impression without all the verbiage which frees the mind to up to a certain degree to appreciate language in  perhaps a more musical way.  With blur, there is the beauty of it all. 

In the coming weeks I will be posting more images in blur and will probably dedicate this blog for the most part to this style of imaging.  I hope you will enjoy or come to enjoy, depending, what this special effects photography has to offer you the viewer. 

Coney Island Beach, a Blur View, from the Beautiful Beachcomber Series of Photographs

Blur View of the Beach, Coney Island, from the 2011 Beautiful Beachcomber Series of Photographs

Side View of the Beach at Coney Island in Blur from the 2001 Beautiful Beachcomber Series of Photographs