Blue Inversion

Blue Inversion

 
As long as man can remember patterns have been used as decoration visual media like art, sculpture and communication of culture, spiritualism or ideological beliefs. But photography captures the happenstance, the occasional, the unorganized. Photography creates a macro world where only the objects inhabited by the frame are relevant. For the lucky (or focused) photographer, this can be an epiphany.
 
Even objects like garden bricks, stacked boxes, and branded consumer goods can make captivating two dimensional presentations. The function of the objects and their relative relationship to the immediate surroundings can also have an impact. Picture unused computer equipment stacked shoulder high in a green field, or broken lawn equipment ranged around a wild growth marshland.
 
Often a photo will comprise a patten of objects that are simply grouped or unified by other means. Perspective is key, the motivation and opportunism to slant the lens and tilt the camera and find a new angle on everyday environments. This is the power a photographer has, to make a new reality that exists only in the viewfinder.
 
When a series of repeated objects are fresh to the eye, a positioning of the camera can obscure the immediate sensory obfuscations and clarify the lines of the series. Patterns are sometimes interesting when the sizes of the items graduated or in different colors but assembled the same way. This can make for some iconoclastic fatures in imagery. A clean image of repeated objects can then set the stage for drmatic image file enhancement.
 
Inversion
 
Inversion is a tool I use very sparingly because it renders the image an abstract. Since all of us are taught to encounter images as organic, an abstract visual image like an inverted color process image file appears negative, the values are not productive to anything more than zero. The mind starts to automatically ‘correct” and guess which color really belongs where.
 
But the atmospheric charge from an inversion can be very effective and enrich clor values when the actual photo has good composition and figural value, yet diminsishes due to pastel shades, or neutrals and grays making up the basis of most of the image. These can be difficult pictures to sell from microstock galleries or feature on a website. occasionally they deliver serious drama to the right image. 
Blue Inversion