Picture Rules:
- Your picture must include the theme element of the challenge – which is Minimalist.
- Round 2 starts, 12:00pm EST Thursday June 13th 2024.
- Round 2 ends at 12:00pm EST Tuesday July 2nd 2024.
Click this link to see the rules of this challenge
Video Transcript
You want to take a photo in the style known as minimalist, but what is it?
What it isn’t is Fine Art, though it might be, nor is it High Key or Low key, but could also be these, and it is a style that cuts across many other photography styles or techniques.
Minimalist photography comes from minimalist art, a style that uses simple compositional elements, through colour, object, shape or texture to capture the image.
The general idea is to capture a single subject, and have one or very few elements in the scene. With more than one or two focal points in the image it ceases to be minimal and becomes an ordinary photo.
It is simple composition and it’s about placing one main element in the photo and surrounding it with negative space. Negative space in this context is defined as “empty space” around the subject.
Talking of simple, it would be very easy for you to bop the like button if you are enjoying this video.
When your viewer looks at your photo, you want them to focus on the subject and not lots of distracting things in the image. Your subject needs to be the focal point that viewer is immediately drawn to. The negative space in the image is there to highlight the subject and remove any distractions.
Your subject can be a person, animal, a thing, architecture or anything you can isolate in the scene.
The style works well in your home studio where you can isolate a subject with negative, or outdoors using fields, sand or even sky to provide the space needed to surround the subject.
I will pop out now and try to take a shot in the style of minimalist, back in moment.
As well as that image I also have taken a couple of other photos using the sky as my negative space, though you can use any blank area.