​Simple 5 tricks to play beautiful minimalist photography

Minimalism is not "extremely simple". How to create rich images with limited combinations of elements is a technical task that requires a lot of technical details and considerations. Today I'd like to share with you some of the most basic minimalist works creation points, canvas prints they will certainly help your creation.

1. "Clean" background

In a minimalist style, the elements are very simple and limited, so the background must be clean and simple, or it will become too dominant. Clean background, can be a large single tonal scenarios, such as clean, less cloud in the blue sky, quiet water, large of grassland, such as: it is important to note that "a large single tone" is not the whole picture color uniformity, the boundaries between the scenery of a few pieces of pure color, cheap canvas prints australia also can be a minimalist good background.

As shown in the picture below, the background color is obviously divided into three layers: black ground, blue sea and light yellow sky. The overall color of the picture is not single, but it has a very minimalist feeling. Can't find a large solid color area? Look for small areas of solid color zoom in on the viewfinder, and it will naturally become a large area of solid color. A clean white wall, a small patch of sky between buildings, acrylic glass prints if placed large enough, can become the solid background we need:

2. Strengthen the subject

The main feature of minimalism is that the main body is small and the picture has a lot of white space. However, too weak the main body, the creation of minimalist works is also unfavorable. In fact, one of the common mistakes of minimalist works is that they are so "minimalist" that the whole picture is empty and they don't know what they want to express:

3. The composition of a picture

When the body is very small, the color is not outstanding, you can try to use the rule of thirds and composition or center, to ensure that its have a certain sense: and when the subject is larger, should use edge composition as far as possible, don't let it take the picture is too full, white space is insufficient, the feeling of lost "minimalist”: big edge subject, image has a large space, minimalist style.

4. Use lines

There is something, its picture proportion may be small, but can cover the whole picture, the sense of existence is very strong. It's a line, a line in a simple background. Horizontal and vertical lines, or a set of directional lines in the same direction, can effectively guide the viewer's gaze. How you arrange these lines depends on your spatial intent. A set of powerful convergence lines lead the line of sight powerfully into the depth. The branches in the foreground act as a frame, leading the line of sight to the main body. All in all, lines are the best partner of minimalism. As long as the background is concise enough, the lines themselves are not too messy, very free to use.

5. Appropriate anaphase

Proper post-processing is very important for minimalist photography. Sometimes you need to turn up the contrast to make the main body stand out. Remove noise to make the background color more uniform; Adjust the curve, enhance the contrast between light and shade, etc. You can also try to make it black and white later. It is important to note that post-conversion to black and white is not simply a matter of color removal. It is recommended to use the professional black and white mode in the later software to convert the color pictures to black and white. Take Photoshop as an example. Select "image" -- "adjustment" -- "black and white" in the upper menu bar, and a screen will appear like this:

As you can see, there are many color options on the screen. What's this for? After different color turns black and white, expression form still has certain distinction. This interface can be used to adjust the depth and weight of various colors in the original image.

You can put it simply this way: turning down a color means that parts of the original image that are of that color appears darker in the resulting black-and-white photo, and vice versa. By turning black and white in this way, rectangle canvas you can selectively enhance and weaken the tone of a certain color in a black and white picture to better enhance the feeling of "minimalism".