abstrat fluid lights stream on bright black background
non objective photography, photography based digital art

how to make high contrast non objective artworks in black and white

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on bright black background white gleaming lights fluid contrasts, black and white picture with fluid white lights on bright black background

When we say multimedia we mean the use of various genders of art and techniques as well. So we can have artworks with mixed pictures and paintings, pictures or painting digitally elaborated using a software and so on. Here above we see a photography based digital artwork where we find mixed analogic and digital techniques. here are all the steps used for making this artwork with very deep and bright  black color and gleaming white, all with a very smooth texture:

  1. first step is a black and white picture made on traditional 50 ASA film, Ilford Pan F, made with a Nikon FM, manual camera, using a 50 mm len with a red filter. The use of the red filter and of the 50 asa film increases the contrasts and reduces the grays:
  2. the film was processed in…

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fluid green shape with shades dissolving into pieces
non objective photography, photography based digital art

calm mood: serenity sensation

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fluid green shape with shades  dissolving into pieces calm mood given by light shades of green in dissolving shape. Photography based digital art

Non objective photography is a good way for transmitting emotions. Altough the picture interpretation is always based on personal sensibility and experiences we can always create in the watcher specific emotions. The light tones and shades, the soft light evoke, like in this picture, a calm mood. The combinatin of shape and colors in this artwork give you a good sensation of calm and serenity.

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wihte snow and blue pyramid with sun above peak in surreal landscape
photography based digital art, surrealism photography

albedo

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snow field with rising blue pyramid on horizon below sun on black sky albedo: dream landscape with snow on foreground, rising blue pyramid on middleground at horizon and sun with light reflections on surrounding clouds on black background.Surrealsim photography.

A dream image representing the albedo, step of alchemy.  Albedo is one of the four major stages of the magnum opus; along with nigredo, citrinitas and rubedo.  Following the chaos of the nigredo stage, the alchemist undertakes a purification in albedo, which is literally referred to as ablutio – the washing away of impurities. See references about albedo

Surrealism pictures are a branch or better the ancestor of photography based digital art. It is an “old” tachnique, started with the darkroom and used by surrealists as Salvador Dalì in some works of photography. The technique is known as photomontage and consistes in mounting more images into one.

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the path of the soul to the heaven after death representation
photography based digital art, surrealism photography

surrealism and symbolism: a way to depict cultural and religious archetypes

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emerging colored pyramid in light, surrealism photography emerging colored pyramid in light, surrealism photography

In the surrealism photography the image can hold a conceptual and symbolic value, in contrast with non objective photograpy, where the image interpretation depends on  the watcher imagination. It takes the place or better can be used along the symbols of the world cultures. We have symbols like Swastika, Cross, Moon, Sun, and many others used by official religions and mystic movements, related to a specific meaning. The two swastikas toghether simbolise the equilibrium, the cross the rebirth and the Moon, in the islamic religion, has different meanings depending on its color. All these symbols evoque, in their culture and religion, a specific sensation, message. So through the surrealism photography we can create images transmitting messages as well. The depicted situations, landscapes create a dream world which makes our imagination working. We start from the rational sphere, given by a recognizable image for reaching the emotional sphere.

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bright yellow fluid shapes with orange sketches
non objective photography, photography based digital art

colors of the nature: bright yellow shapes with orange sketches

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bright yellow sdigital art; hapes with orange sketches bright yellow fluid shapes with orange sketches inside. Photography based digital art

A subject from natural environnement. Yellow color is bright and we see inside orange sketches or symbols.

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butterfly on viola flower in violet color. Side view of wings and body.
fine-art-photography

butterfly on flower

butterfly on viola flower in violet color. Side view of wings and body.
butterfly on purple and white flower. Side view with wings in half vertical position. Picture with focus on foregorund.

Macro photograpy. Butterfly on violet flower. Particular od scaled wings.Side view with wings in half vertical position. Picture with focus on foregorund. Photo for sale.

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