Red Wine Glass and Bottle Abstract Still Life Photography
Ruby Red Held Between Bright Edges And Darkness
A thin red line is enough to give this photograph its centre of gravity. The wine glass fills the right side of the frame, with a dark bottle behind it and narrow highlights tracing their edges. I made this studio still life by reducing the scene to glass, ruby colour and controlled light.
Most of my photography begins while I am travelling, responding to places and people as I find them. My smaller body of studio work gave me the chance to approach a picture differently. Here I could remove the surrounding world and concentrate on how much of an object needs to remain visible for it to hold the composition.
The bottle’s shoulder curves into a bright vertical edge at the left. The glass has a longer, sloping highlight, interrupted by the level of the wine. Beneath that line, the rounded bowl holds a deeper red glow before narrowing into the stem. Large areas of black keep those few illuminated shapes distinct.
I like the tension between recognition and abstraction. The subjects are familiar, yet their outlines and reflections make a spare arrangement of curves and lines. From across a dining room or wine bar, the red provides a small, concentrated accent against the darkness. Closer viewing brings out the subtler glass contours. It is a wine photograph built around what the light reveals and what I allowed to disappear.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2012
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Every photograph in my collection comes from my own travels, explorations, and years behind the camera.
I create my work as photographic art rather than mass-produced decoration. From street portraits and abandoned places to landscapes, architecture, and the unusual subjects I discover along the way, each image begins with something that made me stop and look.
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