Abstract Expressionist: Robert Motherwell

The first two images are painting made from scratch on Photoshop to closely resemble two of Robert Motherwell's paintings. I used two tutorials to help me learn how to effectively use the brushes and then did my best to convey the same thing Motherwell did. His abstract paintings are comprised of lines and shapes. Then the next 4 photographs are pictures I took that resemble Motherwell's style. Motherwell did both color and black and white photography which I tried to represent in the photographs taken. I focused on capturing shapes and lines in the photographs and having strong colors. In multiples of his pictures he uses lines as the basic pattern with a shape in the middle of the lines, which I attempted to mirror in these photographs.

HDR

My HDR series was over Christmas lights. I choose this theme because Christmas lights come in different forms and colors. I wanted to capture the various ways Christmas lights are used during this festive time of the year. I also liked the effect lights gave HDRs. The detail in the glow of the strings of lights as well as their surroundings was a look I thought was cool.

I went outside my house at dusk to take these HDRs. I had a little problem with trying to find places outside that my tripod would stand flat on. My Christmas lights were in various places and so i had to adjust height and angle of the camera for each picture shot. It happened to be windy outside so this was also another obstacle I had to overcome. The HDRs i shot inside was overall easier to take because the floor was flat and there was no wind.