Photography is a wonderful way to bring out your creativity, taste, style, and artistic flair. Besides satisfying your visual curiosity, a good shot also shows the best of your imagination with respect to time, space, and mood.
From wildlife to landscapes, to architecture or abstract scenes and images, one can deploy various photography techniques to optimize the quality of your creative works.
Learning how to apply various artistic expressions in photography can be a great way to come up with intriguing images that interest your audience or market.
Here are three ways you can use artistic expressions for that great million-dollar shot: –
1. Shoot an abstract
Abstract photography occurs when one focuses on a section of a natural scene by isolating it from its context such as colour, texture, line, shape, geometry, symmetry, or reflection of an entity.
Here, the photographer changes our perception of the real and familiar subject or objects such that the viewer doesn’t immediately recognize them.
Abstraction facilitates a move away from the specific, the concrete, and the obvious by eliminating an object and its texture, shape, and form. Colour and tones can become strong elements in an abstract photograph.
Details can be used to create abstract photographs by moving closer to our subjects. Alternatively, you can achieve abstraction through movement. Through subject motion, photographer motion, camera movement or a blend of any of these, information gets reduced, and impressions are created. For example, moving the camera upwards or downwards when photographing trees leaves behind colours, patterns, and lines.
2. Light trails at night
As darkness falls, lights at night illuminate targets, providing excellent subjects, and contexts to capture. For instance, the city roads are lit by light trails from vehicles, giving very unique and interesting patterns.
Fairgrounds offer good artistic shots due to their unique atmosphere, as well as their colour and excitement. Be innovative and artistic in your approach to capturing these scenes by looking for elements such as vibrant and attractive Christmas lights in malls and car light trails.
3. Sharpness and blur
Nice shots don’t always have to be about the beauty of a scene in its sharpest and most natural form as you can be innovative by applying a bit of artistic blur from time to time.
While sharp images are dynamic and provide an obvious and real static representation of a scene, artistic blur helps embed art and movement into your shots, making them even more compelling to the eye.
Using a slower shutter speed helps to provide motion and movement to photographs while also adding drama and vitality.