Waveform 01

This is a Scanogram, which I created for the first assignment of a digital photography class I'm taking this semester. It reminded me of a waveform one would visually use to visually represent a sound, hence the title.

I created a series of these scanograms, including this one, by waving the reflective side of a mirror over a flat-bed scanner. The cover had to be removed for this, so the room had to also be completely dark for the scan to be in optimal conditions.
If I would leave the mirror flat above the scanner, the scan would turn out a plain sky blue color as the scanner scans its reflection. However, if the mirror were shaken periodically, one would get something like this.

The mirror was dirty, so I tried to get rid of a number of smudges and water stains using healing brush and cloning tools in Photoshop. Otherwise, this is the raw image.

Finally, I don't exactly know which category this (or scanograms in general) would go under, I just said photography because this was made for a digital photography class and using a scanner to "photograph" the motions of the mirror as the scanner scanned it, and I said Abstract because abstract because the Gallery Info description seemed to fit what I would describe this piece as too.