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I’m experimenting with some new techniques in post. Working with both photoshop and the usual lightroom/Nik tools I usually use, I’m trying to create somewhat abstractified versions of the images, reduced to an impressionistic  essence of the image insofar as color and shape.

Red Flower. Copyright Joanne Mason 2012.

An early version of some elements of this technique were represented in a black and white image a few days ago. In essence, I use photoshop to drastically reduce the number of different colors in the image palette. Then the customary tools are used to create a high key version that reduces the images to the essentials of color and shape. This technique is still in an early experimental stage but I think is very promising for creating these impressionistic images.

Here’s another:

Purple Iris. Copyright Joanne Mason 2012.

Camera and exposure details are probably almost meaningless here. These were both shot with the Nikon D200 and the Nikkor 105mm f/2.8, and both shot in their environment rather than the studio.