How to take a minimalist photography work

Minimalist photography began to be popular many years ago and endured endlessly. There is a reason for it to fire. First of all, the screen is very clean, and there is no extra interference element to disturb the viewer's sight. The minimalist elements have screened the color on another level, and the simple color matching makes the color more impact in the picture.

Minimalism photography has become one of the styles of many photographers. In daily life, they will always look for white space to shoot simplified content.

Minimalism is not a new thing. In any art form, including sculpture, painting, etc., has the concept of minimalist minimalism. Although the elements have become less, this does not mean that minimalism is easy to make. On the contrary In, it also requires you to use limited elements to shape unlimited content space, and at some levels, it will reflect the artistic cultivation of an creator.

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Since it is called minimalism, the keywords simplicity means extremely clean and not mixed with quality. The elements in the screen should have its own actual use, although we know that it is difficult to achieve in the real world. We will always inevitably appear like that and such interference. Unless it is removed by the later period, it is difficult to achieve true minimalism. So, how to shoot minimalist works efficiently? It may be a question that every photographer who wants to shoot this type.

Like any photo, the story is the most important thing that the photo is to pass to the audience. In minimalist photography, you want to tell this story as efficient as possible, then it means that there must be a clean background and properly negatively negatively negative Space and clear themes. I believe that no one wants no matter how many interference elements appear in the photo, the description of the disturbance of the element will introduce the audience's perspective into another inexplicable direction.

And keep the background clean, whether through blurring, solid color or simple texture, can easily eliminate unnecessary interference.

In landscape photography, the use of negative space is also necessary. Whether it is an experienced photographer or a painter, they will deliberately retain a part of the space in their own pictures. It is all bright. Although this space is not eye -catching, it has an important role in setting off the theme. For example, the clear blue sky surrounded by mountains is an obvious negative room, and some blue sky will be more magnificent.

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One of the consequences caused by portrait photography in portrait photography or still static photography is to create shallow depth of field, blurring outside the theme, and the blurred There is no interference space. Although it blurred the picture, it did not blur the theme, but saved the subject from the interference elements in the disturbance background.

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Another most important element of building minimalist photography is color. By using color to create contrast, in a simple picture, use two or three colors to work together, and highlight them in images to improve the image attraction of images force.

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Most of the time, minimalist photos will always tend to use a large area of ​​color color to establish simplicity, but you still need to understand the color and the role of different colors. Essence Then according to the nature of your theme, choose the appropriate complementary color to enhance your theme.

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And if it is a black and white work, you should pay attention to the role of black and white and gray in the photo, the contrast between black and white, and the role of gray tone in the work.

Minimalism photography is usually a very simple picture. The photographer tries to use the combination of simple elements (points, lines, and faces) to guide the viewer to enter the correct direction. In your work, any element that may appear may appear. It will guide the audience's attention, so it is necessary to reduce the number of elements in the photos to describe the story.

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Photo by Iiaki Bolumburu

In our daily, line elements can be seen almost everywhere. Whether it is the contour of the building, the extension of the road, or the large sky, the existence of line elements in daily space. However, it is precisely because they are everywhere that they are everywhere, so it is easier to inevitably appear in the screen to interfere with the sight. When composition, the line of the line in the screen should be analyzed. The place of the place, or the framework that is not in the actual destination.

The texture can also be a powerful expression element in the photo. Due to the limited language space of minimalism, texture is usually used as the theme, and they often appear in the form of repeated patterns, conveying content to viewers, including emotions, including light, including light, including light, including light, including light, including light, including light Including darkness.

Photo by Hossein Zare

Photo by Hossein Zare

As a photographer, the only way to improve your own is to constantly try to continue shooting and constantly thinking, so as to innovate your creation in accumulation and make your work attractive.Although minimalism is still very popular today, most people's minimalism is just simple content in the background of the picture, and it cannot effectively express the theme of emotions.And emotion is the soul of the photo, the theme is the focus of attention when a photographer creates.

It is not difficult to make photos that look good. Taking a work that belongs to your own style is the most concerned issue that every photographer should care about.

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