Minimalist Photography: How to Keep It Simple?

Minimalist photography trends are used in the fields of architecture, design, and visual art. Currently, there is a community of photographers who prefer minimalist photography with many sites online. And there are quite a number of prestigious international competitions in France, in Spain, or Minimalism Photography Magazine specializing in minimalist photography.

The slogan of minimalist photography is Less is more. For minimal photography is not easy, the camera must take away what is cumbersome, focus on a detail or a subject and use light, composition, colors to express the meaning. In order to take impressive minimalistic photos that are not trivial, the author often has to have good writing about aesthetics, with a cultural background in many related art fields such as music, painting, etc.

Many minimalist photos capture many profound, profound styles of “meditation” photography to create moments of silence, causing viewers to spend time contemplating and conversing with the author.

Everything phenomena can become the subject of minimal photography, provided that the author must have rich thinking and imagination. The brush on the girl’s eyebrow like the birds flying in the sky was a photographic work that reminded me forever. And the backdrops of minimalist photography are often simple. And the empty space in the image makes a lot of sense if you know how to take advantage of it that suits your subject.

Minimalist photography is not a good shot or something, but usually a thing already in mind. Observe things and phenomena from different angles to find meaningful details, lines or minimal colors. Tile roofs, masonry walls, floral details on the architecture of temples, pagodas, even the lines on the traffic boundary line … can all catch the photographer’s eye. Remember the most familiar minimalist picture that many people take is the birds sitting on the wires like the notes on the music.

With the spread of minimalist photography in many genres, from abstract photos, to landscape photos, Aerial, conceptual images, the creative amplitude is maximized. And post-processing is no longer so simple as before. Post-processing in minimalistic images is not overly complicated, but it also needs a blue eye for sophistication.