Hitting the keys before the month turns red is quite a challenge! A blog must be made & I’m beating the end-of-month deadline..hurry, hurry, February is fast approaching! Today’s issue is about digital manipulation..in photography.

An abstract art is generally understood to mean as an art that doesn’t depict objects in the natural world but instead uses colors & forms in a non-representational way. Since abstraction is mostly based on sensation, intuition, feeling, & thinking, there is still a misconception to believe that nature cannot offer abstractions without human touch. Abstract photography is nothing new & people constantly come up with new or re-invent old versions of photography techniques. One way is digital manipulation which mostly does distortions or add-ons on images. I love this idea & even if I don’t do any manipulations on my camera, images already look distorted anyway due to lack of experience, or the object taken already is a distortion in itself..hehe! What a mess!

Digital manipulation is another form of art. You can crop the image to a composition that works for you & then use levels or curves to adjust the contrast of the photos. One can create a new image from the image itself. Distorted images do give us a different feeling, different view. Art can be just anything you think that pleases your eyes & mind, & the others’. This distorted photo looks fantastically great to me. I can’t see my friends’ faces perfectly well but the most important thing is that the photographer has given them new perspectives in their outlook. The artful in themselves is itself already an artwork..hehe. The photo was taken (not by me!) during our company’s staff outing last week.