Minimalist style photography skills

Minimalist photography is not as difficult as you think. Let's sort out some minimalist photography skills and learn together!

1, choose a simple and clean picture background.

A simple and clean background is the best choice for minimalist photography. When shooting outdoors, you might as well choose a scene with fewer picture elements as the shooting background.

Endless wheat fields, a blue sky, hills piled with stones, or vast lakes and oceans can all be used as the shooting background of minimalist photography.

Avoid too many complicated and redundant visual elements in the background. If you can't find a simple and clean shooting background, you can also use some techniques to reduce the interference of irrelevant picture elements.

2, including the visual center focus

People can usually be the best visual focus of minimalist photos, so you can invite friends or children to pose and shoot in the photos, or you can bring a tripod to make yourself the protagonist of the picture.

After the shooting, you might as well take a look at the shooting picture and check the position of the visual focus. If it takes too long to find the visual focus, it means that the visual center focus of the picture is not obvious enough.

Even the same scene, you can try to shoot it many times, and each attempt will let you find something else that can be used as a visual focus.

Step 3 find a big tree

Big trees can add vivid details and infinite interest to the original plain picture, so big trees can be used as an excellent visual focus of minimalist photography. At the same time, there are many similarities between trees and people themselves, which can arouse the audience to sing emotionally and make the audience unconsciously integrate into the picture.

When going out to shoot, you might as well look for a single big tree in the wilderness, but if the environmental background contains many elements, try to be close to the big tree to reduce the interference elements in the environment.

Change the shooting angle and try different compositions until you get a clean and concise picture effect and an eye-catching visual focus. Low-angle shooting can bring more sky into the picture, thus bringing white space effect.

The above picture shows a large area of the sky and part of the land, which belongs to minimalist photography.

Although a single tree can bring a good picture effect, if it is mixed with characters or other objects, it will bring a sense of space and depth to the whole picture and increase the story and interest of the picture.

Of course, it is also interesting to photograph the four seasons of a big tree.

4. The picture becomes a large sky.

Minimalist photos contain a large area of negative space, and a large area of blank pictures help to create a clean picture effect. Because there is no interference, the viewer's attention is consciously attracted to the main object.

Shooting at a low angle or keeping the subject high can let more sky into the picture. However, it should be noted that when shooting the sky, the mobile phone should consider the light effect and the direction of sunlight.

If the sun is behind the photographer, the main light and color effects will be enhanced and the detail elements will be better presented. If the sun is in front of the photographer, the subject will show a black outline.

Although the main colors and details can't be fully presented, the silhouette effect adds amazing dramatic effect to the picture. You can put the subject on the top of the mountain and then shoot from different angles to compare the similarities and differences of the pictures.

Step 5 shoot down

Shooting down from a height, with the earth as the shooting background, enables us to eliminate interference and shoot simple photos even in an environment with complex picture elements.

In addition, taking the ground as the background can also add beautiful textures and colors to the picture, and taking pebbles on the beach, green lawns, golden wheat fields or clear water as the background will also receive good shooting results.

Of course, don't forget to add visual focus to the picture. People, interesting objects, ducks playing on the water, etc. Can be the focus of the visual center. You can also use your creative thinking to shoot shadows, reflections or light to increase the interest of shooting.

Try to shoot from different angles, and the slight deviation of the angle of view will bring completely different picture effects and visual feelings to the viewer.

Step 6 shoot in the snow

Snow as the background can create a fairy-tale blank effect. The following photo takes snow as the scene, giving people the illusion of shooting in a professional indoor studio.

Shooting on a cloudy day, the world melts into a vast expanse of white space, and the effect of blank space is enhanced, or shooting from a height, directly using snow as the background of the picture, is also a good shooting method.

After focusing on the subject, slide up and down on the screen to adjust the image exposure if necessary. Because the snow scene is highly reflective and bright, when shooting a large area of snow scene, the camera's automatic metering system will mistakenly think that the environment is bright, so it will automatically reduce the exposure. In this case, properly increasing exposure compensation can effectively improve the picture.

Of course, you can also use mobile phone software for post-processing, and make the snow look more white and flawless by adjusting the brightness and contrast of the picture.

Step 7 shoot in the fog

The foggy weather casts a mysterious color on the plain scenery, completely reversing everything in front of us and providing an excellent opportunity for shooting minimalist works. Fog can hide darkness, eliminate interference and create a white, clean and bright background for the subject.

If trees with different distances can be photographed together with fog, the farther the trees are from the camera, the better the fog will cover them, the more blurred they will be in the picture, and the depth of the whole picture will be strengthened.

Like shooting a snow scene, if necessary, the exposure can be slightly increased when shooting a fog scene, and of course it can be adjusted by software later.

8. Add eye-catching colors to photos.

If you choose a uniform color such as snow, water and grass as the background, you might as well add an eye-catching color to the picture.

The easiest way is to use colorful props or clothes: a bright umbrella can usually be the most effective assistant for minimalist photography. Of course, you can also decorate the picture with painted chairs like the photo above. Give full play to imagination and creativity, and minimalist photography can be extraordinary.

If you choose a character as the visual focus, you can make the character wear a brightly colored coat, skirt or hat. You can also put on a pair of red rain boots and take pictures of your feet as shown above.

Some brightly colored objects may also be found in the background picture, such as painted huts or brightly colored boats.

Adding striking colors to the picture can make the subject more prominent and attract the attention of the viewer more easily. In addition, red and yellow can form a bright color contrast with the background, bringing a pleasant visual experience to the viewer.

9. consider composition

Even if there are not many visual elements in the minimalist picture, how to arrange the elements plays a very important role in the overall picture effect.

Picture composition will have a certain impact on the attraction of visual focus, and also affect the visual balance of the picture. Guiding lines such as roads can be very good composition tools, which can guide the viewer's line of sight, increase the depth of the picture and create magical symmetrical effects.

Looking for visual elements that can create a "frame" effect around the subject, such as tunnels or branches, can make the subject more prominent and make the focus more eye-catching.

How to arrange the subjects in the frame, should they be placed in the center of the picture, the bisector or the edge of the frame? The position of the subject will play a decisive role in the picture composition. If you are not sure which composition can produce the best picture effect, let the subject be in different positions, take more pictures, and then consider the picture effect repeatedly and choose the best one.

Making a composition in your mind before shooting can save a lot of time in later editing.

10, retouching with mobile app.

After shooting, the mobile phone retouching software can help you cut out unnecessary visual elements in the photo, or add other elements to balance the composition.

If there are visual elements in the picture that distract the viewer's attention, such as signs, wires or garbage, you can use app software to modify the picture.

If an object in the foreground distracts the viewer's attention, you can use an application to replace the foreground pattern with a beautiful reflection. If the picture looks unbalanced, you can add another element to the photo to improve the overall composition of the photo.