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How do you paint with photography? By creating composition of forms from the surroundings around you. I picked up photography because it’s a way to see — it’s how I see the world.
The understanding of forms is best understood when you can find representative structure in space that you could capture on a 2D plane.
It’s like music — but rhythm, melody, and harmony in space. Sometimes it’s hard to even describe what these things are.
Often, it’s a feeling. Emotion is hard to describe. This is an abstract painting about monochromatic blues, accented by the tip of a white paint and shades of gold in the shadow.
Stata Center, officially the Ray and Maria Stata Center and sometimes referred to as Building 32, is a 430,000-square-foot academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004.
- Camera: Canon EOS 10D
- Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
- Exposure: 70mm, 1/180 sec, f/8, ISO 100
- Series: Forms, Architecture
- Date: 2009-08-01
- Process: 2024-04-28
Creative Commons Attribution (CCBY)
Copyright 2009, 2024 See-ming Lee / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Rhapsody in Blue / Stata Center, MIT / SML.20090801.10D.50885
A collage of forms seen at the Ma On Shan Sports Grounds. Bright colors seem to be a main stay in sporting arena regardless of location in the world. Blue and yellow stripes always work. It looks like an Adidas retro sneaker to me. The circular rubber band and the curvature from the seats add a little bit of contrast without dominating.
If I could paint, this is what I would paint as well. As such this is part of the SML Paintings series also.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-21 14:21:47 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3261 x 4891
+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 137 mm
+ ISO: 125
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'14" N 114°13'40" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆康街1號馬鞍山運動場 中国香港马鞍山恒康街1号马鞍山运动场 Ma On Shan Sports Ground, 1 Hang Hong Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130221.7D.24023
+ Series: 體育 Sports, 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms, SML Paintings
“<<<” / 香港體育建築人流之形 Hong Kong Sports Architecture Human Logistics Forms / SML.20130221.7D.24023
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If I could paint, this is what would be on my canvas. But I can’t paint, so I paint through photography. Since I publish everything via Creative Commons (CCBY), in the past some people would turn my photographs into paintings. Maybe some day someone would do that for my “paintings”. Meanwhile I will continue to paint my abstract paintings using my camera.
# SML Workflow
Photographed handheld with the Canon 7D and the 70-200 f/4L lens. Processed in Lightroom 4.
# SML Data
+ Series: 形 Forms, 抽象 Abstracts, 界 Division
+ Date: 2013-02-01 11:05:24 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3451 x 5177
+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 81 mm
+ ISO: 500
+ Flash: Did not Fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'16" N 114°13'34" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆安商場停車場 中国香港马鞍山恒安商场停车场 Car Park, Heng On Shopping Mall, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong SAR, China
“形之界 Form Division” #abstract / 形 Forms / SML.20130201.7D.20873
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Another one of my abstract expressionist painting...
As I have stated earlier, I can't draw, so photography is my canvas where I paint.
Feel free to download high res, print and hang on your wall If you do, let me know - I will be so honored!
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Sometimes nature creates the most beautiful paintings on its own, and I have to capture it.
The river reflected buildings from afar. The white little egret took a briefer by the pebbles. The sun hits the pebbles from behind. Everything poetry.
For me, photography is part memories but also a way to paint. It recorded a state of mind that I felt as I mindfully looked for beauty among what appeared to be a pile of dirty from afar.
It’s urban, but it’s also nature. Urbanism is simply a result of humans gathering together.
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
- Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
- Exposure: 400mm, 1/640 sec, f/8, ISO 320
- GPS: 22°23'25" N 114°12'3" E
- Location: Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong
- Date: 2013-08-09
Copyright 2013, 2024 See-ming Lee / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Little Egret by the River. Blue, Black, White and Gold. Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong / SML.20130809.7D.49504.SQ
It seems that photographing “nothing of interest” is a personal specialty. This is the beautiful forms from the side of a concrete bridge. The curvature are natural and are not a result of geometric distortion from the lens. Bridges are just so beautiful, especially when used and decayed.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-22 17:18:51 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5030 x 3353
+ Exposure: 1/160 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 117 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'36" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆安地鐵站天橋 中国香港马鞍山恒安地铁站天桥 Metro Bridge, Heng On MTR Station, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130222.7D.24532.P1.L1
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms
“|||||| |||||||||||| ||” / 香港人流建築之形 Hong Kong Human Logistics Architecture Forms / SML.20130222.7D.24532.P1.L1
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My new abstract expressionist painting.
...actually it's my photography, but since I can't draw, this is as far as I can manage.