There is no tutorial to what you're looking for because it has to come from your imagination. The best way to approach it is to train your vision to see things in an abstract way. Look at pictures that you want to emulate and try to imagine the lens focal length and camera angle used. Practice seeing things differently as you travel through your world.

It's taken years but I've trained myself to see things in a somewhat abstract way. One thing I do is look at photographer's work that I admire and then ask myself how they would approach an image I'm contemplating capturing. Another is to shoot around a subject, not limiting myself to what would be a clich

The tutorial is the thinking behind the evolution of abstract art that began at the turn of the 20th century. Basically abstract is any way of seeing other than the literal stereoscopic 3 dimensional reality of vision. It is not just that you don't visualize literally but in almost every successful abstract art endeavor there was a particular variation on seeing or visualizing reality in some atypical but organized manner. The early abstract painting of Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris was one of the more obvious ways of seeing or visualizing non-literally by picturing reality in one image or vision from different perspectives in time, and for some odd reason was called cubism. The critics and commentators on art that name various abstract ways of seeing and picturing things usually don't quite get it. Like not realizing Picasso and Gris were describing a universe from the same or a similar perspective that the physicist Einstein was expressing in his theories of relativity between space and time.

The painter Seurat instead of the litral saw reality as dots of color much as a modern photolithographic process reproduces continuous toned reality. While Mondrian pictured reality like it conformed to a two-dimensional graph of ordered rectangular spaces of different weight and color. Possibly the most aptly named way of abstracting literal visual reality was that of the surrealists by manipulating the literally real to become more than real by mixing the elements of reality non-rationally related like a vision in a dream .

But photography as a way of picturing things is in itself an abstraction like B&W photography makes the literal unreal by removing color.

Technique can facilitate the abstraction of reality by means of re-ordering visual perception in a differently ordered but predictable way. The computer is particularly adept at this as exemplified by all the various filter affects. But a more sophisticated way to use a computer to see the world in a delibrate variation away from the literal is by means of an Apple Mac application called Studio Artist made by a programming company called Synthetik Software Inc. It provides an easier way to reorder the literal to become abstract by deliberate design and then takes a literal digital image and repaints it according to that design concept one pixel after another in a deliberate and ordered pattern. The possible variations of abstraction Studio Artist can accomplish can be simple or complex and the variations are virtually infinite depending on how you program the application. This is made easier that starting from a blank page because the application now contains hundreds maybe thousands of different programmed option users have created and made available as part of the application, the ultimate result of synergy.