Abstract imperfection

This my first attempt at imperfection.

all this time I’ve been trying to be proper, perfect, in my photography. Then I thought about this perfectionism, and while it’s great helpful and amazing and I will continue to do it, why not go to the other end of it, be imperfect, break all the rules, let even the most normal mundane sense of properness go through the roof, make everything imperfect, improper, etc. now in theory that may sound cool and ‘unique’ and all,

but after seeing lots of amateur horrible images (and taking some amateur horrible images myself,) and seeing a few world class images from seasoned professionals, let me tell you: being imperfect, and breaking the rules, trying to be unique, and being a rebellious teenager gives you horrible images, not good ones. So when does imperfection become artistic? I’ll tell you the keyword:

ABSTRACTNESS. Seeee, as humans we either appreciate perfection, or abstractness, and we’re not okay with most things in between, so the key here is to be imperfect in a very abstract arty way, otherwise it does not look good. If you don’t agree, pull up a random selfie that you clicked with no intention of making a good image with good composition lighting and all, now, according to the imperfect is cool by itself theory, this selfie must be a good image right? but it isn’t, hence, disproving that imperfect = cool. So I thought about this, tried it practically, and came up with a few ways to create this abstract imperfection…There are 3 ways that I’ve identified :

1. make most of the photo perfect but add a touch of subtle but definite imperfection.

like with this image

2. make everything extremely imperfect, (shaky, out of focus, blurry) but let be a small but definite amount of detail in the hazy cloud of imperfection (kaainda like with this image that your reading the caption of, but I’ve left a good amount of detail mixed with the hazy abstraction)

3. make everything as gracelessly distorted as possible, (shake it like heck, keep messing with the focus, zoom in and zoom out, all that must be recorded in your image, (and those of you who are thinking if that’s possible, yeah it is)) -and what you’ll get is a canvas of blurry colors, which is HIGHLY abstract, then again, if you go too far into the abstract and keep killing the details, then you’ll be left with a canvas of blank colors, which is boring, there is nothing TO it, it’s just a color square, not an image, so it must be abstract enough to be defined as abstract, but have enough detail that it doesn’t look like a color square, so ya, that’s it, thanks for reading my (very bad) writing, make your arguments in the comments..(hey I’m trying to engage my audience!- do it!)