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Thanks for elaborating. I'll keep that in mind moving forward when posting to this sub. I have noticed that people tend to respond positively to more traditional photos and negatively to abstraction. But there are specific subs for posting those images so it's not a big deal.

If you are at all interested in abstract photography, there are plenty of artists to look at. There's Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, and Edward Weston. It started gaining in popularity in the late 1800s / early 1900s with the Abstract Expressionist movement and on through Cubism and Futurism.

Thanks for the comment. I also like finding those everyday moments.I enjoy discovering easily ignored details of everyday life. I've lived in this space for awhile and don't remember noticing this pattern on the wall.

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your feedback and your decision to delete mean sounding opinions and instead leave a critique of the work. And yes, I value critique of my work.

I'm wondering if you could elaborate on what makes it bland and amateurish. Are you reacting to the overall composition, the subtle contrast, or the lack of an obvious subject? Or maybe all of those or none of those things? I feel the photo is comparable to the subtleties of light and shadow of Astronomatopoeia 029 and 008 and taken with a similar artistic eye while 012 and 005 are definitely spontaneous snapshots. Astronomatopoeia 025 is similar only as minimal subject matter but dissimilar as abstracted space.

I'd love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa's Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me "just in case". It was fun.

I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the 'shape' of color. I don't think information is thrown away. I think it's about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.

Or sometimes it's just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.

Right?! #burnitwithfire

Thanks!

Thanks!

No worries! I appreciate the explanation. It's a monochrome digital image with a light sepia toned filter applied at the time I took the photo. It's not a true black and white photograph and there aren't any tags for sepia, monochrome, Van Dyke, etc. so I tagged it black and white. I suppose I could start #monochrome .

Would you prefer monochrome?

It's just like how it sounds.

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