Train Your Eyes for Minimalist Photography

Let's say you have decided to give Minimalist Photography a try and you are keen on clicking some Minimalist Photos. The question is where to begin?

To begin, You need to Train Your Eyes for Minimalist Photography

You need to Change your "Perspective" i.e. the way you look at things. Shapes/lines/ geometry is everywhere. They are a part of our everyday lives, but we often forget to notice them.

For example:

• What shape is a birthday cake? Isn't it mostly a square or a circle?
• Even when you cut your birthday cake with a knife, what shape do you cut out ? Don't you cut out triangles ?
• Geometry is everywhere. OK, how about a wrist watch? The most common dial shapes are circular, square, or rectangular.
• How about the plates we use to eat our food in? again circular or square. (the common ones)
• How about  doors and windows? Mostly all doors are rectangular (rather rectangles) and most common window shapes are improvised squares or rectangles. Rectangles, are used the most in everyday life, they are just about everywhere.
• Also, how about the electricity wires you see on the road attached to the poles. Well, those are not electricity wires, for a minimalist those are Lines.

This is the kind of perspective change you need to bring in, in order to compose Minimalist frames.

Let's take a few examples of Minimalist Photographs to better understand how a normal person views objects and how a Minimalist Photographer views them. 

Minimalist Photo: 1

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a) How a Normal person views it: Two holes in a rusty metal sheet.

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: Two circles separated by a line (Minimalism as Simple Geometry)

 

Minimalist Photo: 2 

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a) How a Normal person views it: A yellow wall with an opening.

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: A red rectangle within a square, which is again within a larger square.(Minimalism as Simple Geometry)

Minimalist Photo: 3

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a) How a Normal person views it: Snippet of a ladder .

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: Five vertical lines cut by a diagonal one.(Minimalism as Simple Geometry)

Minimalist Photo: 4

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a) How a Normal person views it: Six windows .

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: Rectangles, squares, lines and curves. (Minimalism as Simple Geometry or Repeating Shapes)

Minimalist Photo: 5

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a) How a normal person views it: A bicycle parked by the wall.

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: A semi-circle, lines and a rectangle. (Minimalism as Simple Geometry or Parts of the Whole)

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a) How a normal person views it: A staircase.

b) How a Minimalist Photographer views it: A right angled triangle on the left, A diagonal lines. other straight lines.( Minimalism as Simple Geometry/Less Elements) 

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I hope the above Examples helped you to see things in a different manner.

--- Now you can also enroll for Online Classes on Minimalist Photography via Zoom or Google Meet. Click here: Online Classes

 

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Thank you, have a nice day/night.