Impressionistic Photography
November 28, 2015
Foggy morning, Columbia River
I’m finding it fun to experiment more with my photos, taking time to make a beautiful impression from some of my duds, those photos that I would ordinarily consider too blurry to keep. I use an app called Photoshop Express to edit my images — crop, tint, color saturation. I try to create more expressive, subjective, abstract images. I am pleased with the painterly quality of the resulting photos. Don’t you agree that they are beautiful?
This is a more natural view of the Columbia River, the morning after Thanksgiving, as the early morning fog was dissipating.
This is a more impressionistic take on the same view.
As much as I yearn to find time to paint, I still love to take photos. And it feels very satisfying to push myself in new ways with my photography. Experimenting makes me feel alive. I don’t think I will ever set aside my camera for my paintbrushes. I want time to play around with both.
November 29, 2015 at 7:31 am
They are beautiful. My favorite is the first “adaptation.” It’s really quite amazing, the things we can do with photos. Post-processing can be an art, too.
November 29, 2015 at 8:51 pm
Joseph Turner would approve! Yes, they are quite beautiful — I cannot pick a favourite. I do love how photography has the ability to interpret what the eye sees whether the image is sharp or blurry, a close-up or wide-angle, colour or B&W, abstract or realist, photoshopped or hand-coloured. There is as much variety with photography as there is with painting and, like you, I love them both.