Best abstract landscapes I've ever seen

[sm4him]

I might have just found my inspiration for the summer.

OP, play around with different things near and far and find your own way of creating something similar. She definitely has amazing work and like Mishele I'm inspired!! I've tried to create my own "landscapes" and this is one I was quite happy with

^ +1 for both of these responses.

I see absolutely no reason to work TOO terribly hard at "figuring out" how the original photos were done, exactly. I mean, what's the point in that? Even if you figure it out, exactly, all you've done is successfully copy someone else's work.

Use it as inspiration--don't try to recreate what the original artist has done, though. Look for how you can take that idea and make it your own.

I've just gotten an idea for a whole new series from these photos--they may well end up looking nothing like the photos in the OP's link, but if they end up looking like they do in MY head, well that'll be a success.

 

[Compaq]

I like it! HDR? That's some crazy texture!

Yup, processed in photomatix sometime last summer.
This thread has inspired me as well. Thank you!

 

[TrustDust]

I like the effects and something I might also try over the summer.

 

[cynicaster]

Those are nice photos for sure.

The first thing that came to my mind was that maybe they're only "landscapes" through the power of suggestion. In looking at some of them, I got the distinct feeling I wasn't looking at a horizon at all, but some small object in a controlled lighting environment. Very cool though, whatever it is.

 

[rhymeorreason]

I know what your saying, but there is a reason I'm asking for advice about the exact technique. I'm quite new to photography, and all the various techniques that you can use to put more of yourself in the picture, rather than just direct representation. I find, that if I (in the first instance) try to replicate a technique quite slavisly, then it helps it to sink in. And then from there I can move forward with my own interpretation.

To use a bad analogy - Its like tennis, you can't move forward and hone your own game until you have the basics down

 

[Derrel]

I looked at the 45 samples she had on-line...they do look like long exposures. Some have some unusual chromatic aberration. I honestly think that some of the photos have been shot through bottles or drinking glasses, held in front of the lens. A good number of them appear to be processed quite vigorously in post; it's possible to take many images and really "tweak" on the parameters to emphasis what began as very subtle imperfections or subtle effects, and to really push the image's boundaries.

 

[rhymeorreason]

On a quick update, I found this by her on another blog (plasticpumpkin.wordpress.com) earlier today -

"... I work with transluscent materials and liquids and light and I get very excited when I can make a light wave look like a wave of water..."

Now how you manage to that.....I don't know???

 

[AnnieHuley]

The closest thing I have is a scene involving a low sun and lots of fog.


Lauvøya 2 by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

Oh my gosh! I LOVE this!

 

[Compaq]

The closest thing I have is a scene involving a low sun and lots of fog.

Lauvøya 2 by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

Oh my gosh! I LOVE this!

I was at the right place at the right time - something landscape photography seems to boil down to.

 

[Compaq]

BTW, five minutes in photoshop yields


Lauvøya 2 eksperiment by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

 

[cgipson1]

Would this count?

 

[TATTRAT]

This ended up in some macro shots, have no idea what it is, but fooled with it for a bit and liked the end result

like a drunken hazy morning on the beach

 

[squirrels]

This ended up in some macro shots, have no idea what it is, but fooled with it for a bit and liked the end result

like a drunken hazy morning on the beach

Very "searching for my lost shaker of salt"!

 

[PixelRabbit]

Or "where the heck am I and where are my glasses???"
Been there done that lol

 

[derezzy]

I love the ones of the waves how do you do an edit like that