Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts: vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more of a challenge to convey how they feel. To create a sense of a place without the distractions of detail, we can turn to abstract techniques. Intentional blur, multiple exposures, unusual camera angles and digital mash-ups can all help us emphasise the emotion of the place, and create wall-worthy art that feels more in touch with the work of impressionist painters than it does with ‘conventional’ photographic techniques.
In this project we’ll look at a range of techniques that you can try out on the streets. Camera skills are often about eliminating shake, keeping scenes in…
