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I started focusing just on the oil slicks – I’m a sucker for easy abstract images. I made several compositions.
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I started focusing just on the oil slicks – I’m a sucker for easy abstract images. I made several compositions.

  • I was fascinated hearing about the La Brea Tar pits when I was a kid. Millions of fossils have been excavated revealing the desperate end of many pre-historic large mammals that roamed North America.
  • I wasn't that inspired by the place when I got there, but started taking photos of reflections and oil slicks.
  • I found I was more interested in making things abstract.
  • I started focusing just on the oil slicks – I’m a sucker for easy abstract images. I made several compositions.
  • When I got home I noticed the patterns have a latent 3-D quality that I wanted to explore.
  • Simple dodging and burning - lightening and darkening parts of the picture - enhanced the 3-D effect. I also tried pushing the color balance and saturation.
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  • This processed image is the same image as the next one as it looks straight out of the camera.
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  • I'm amazed that these fantastic topographies that look so otherworldly and synthetic are depictions of something so real and literally of the earth.
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