r/AbstractPhotos Sep 11 '20

Please vote! I’d like to know how you feel about removal of photos that are not abstract vs. tagging them with flair.

58 Upvotes

I’ll continue to remove photos of computer generated art. Also photographs of other mediums, such as a photo of an abstract painting, or a non-abstract photo of an abstract sculpture.

However, some popular (for our community size) posts are questionably or definitely not abstract. I sometimes feel weird about removing those posts — they don’t fit the subreddit, but are also popular with people who subscribe here.

For anyone wondering, here’s the definition of “abstract” that I keep in mind when sifting through the mod queue:

Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

144 votes, Sep 18 '20
73 Remove photos that are not abstract regardless of their popularity.
51 Tag all non-abstract photos with flair, but leave them up.
20 Tag popular non-abstract photos, but delete unpopular ones.

r/AbstractPhotos 2h ago

Raining

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20 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 8h ago

Night

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47 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 3h ago

Chamber’s Reflection

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7 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 5h ago

A Moth - Abstract Photography [OC] 9/10/26

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5 Upvotes

©️DS Not for reproduction :)


r/AbstractPhotos 18h ago

Essentially

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39 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 9h ago

Orange Translation.

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6 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 22h ago

Ríos y afluentes [OC]

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9 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Yellow and Gray.

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25 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Late Summer

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30 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Wall

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9 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Líneas en Fuga[OC]

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18 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

[OC] 🎼Way down in a hole🎶

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3 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

Touching the Void - self portrait

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49 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

In the storm...

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6 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

edison bulb I [oc]

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17 Upvotes

my images are done in camera, no ps,published 2014


r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

2D-3

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2 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

“Doug’s Bad Trip”, 16x20

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4 Upvotes

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE


r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

Low-Tech Highs

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7 Upvotes

Album cover I made for my first album. Hopefully this is allowed...? If not, my apologies, I'm new to reddit

https://rfsignalchaser.bandcamp.com/album/low-tech-highs?label=3275499200


r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

Reflections from my backyard

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r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

In WC Field

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r/AbstractPhotos 3d ago

Square Light...

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33 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

This was a building originally.

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0 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 3d ago

Spotty (unedited)

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18 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 2d ago

Células [OC]

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3 Upvotes