Often people will say they just do not get abstract art when it is a painting. Abstract photography on the other hand has an entirely different effect on the audience. It almost has a magnetic challenge to the mind to figure out what it is.
Or upon knowing what it is, being able to wrap the brain around the image of the photograph becomes the challenge.
Abstract Art Photography Form Abstract photography can take several forms. The most common are...
1. The Abstraction of the Subject Matter This involves seeing beyond the reality to see abstractions of photographic subject matter.
2. Abstraction of a Part of the Whole Abstractions in photography can also include a part of the whole that in and of its self has some intrinsic artistic value. This requires stripping off other aspects of the photo.
3. Abstractions Within the Photo It can include seeing things in the photograph that are not necessarily the substance of the photograph. It could be analogous to seeing images in clouds. These images are visible in the art of the photograph.
Abstract photographic art is indeed a unique form of abstract art. It can be colorful, bright or dark and mysterious. It can move people. It has power.
bokeh Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh is different from sharpness. Sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus. Bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus. Bokeh describes the appearance, or "feel," of out-of-focus areas. Bokeh is not how far something is out-of-focus, bokeh is the character of whatever blur is there.