Ten minimalist photography skills

1, choose simple clean background

Simple and clean screen background is the best choice of shooting minimalist photography. Go out when shooting, might as well choose fewer scenery picture elements as the background. The endless wheat fields, one blue sky, rock pile of hills, or vast lakes, oceans, are minimalist photography as a background. Avoid background contains too many complex redundant visual elements, if unable to find a simple and clean background, you can also through some techniques to reduce the intrusion of unrelated picture element.

2, contains visual center focus

Even the minimalist style picture element is relatively small, such scenes are still focus should not be lack of visual center. But it is important to note that both by the people, the natural scenery and man-made structures to serve as the center of the picture, the viewer's line of sight should be toward the focal point, in the first other location rather than the picture. After finding the right background, therefore, the search can be used as a focus of visual center of the object, and then around the focus to organize images. Characters can often become extremely brief picture perfect visual focus, so you can invite friends or children posed in the pictures, can also carry the tripod, let oneself become the protagonist of the picture. Filmed, might as well take a look at the good image, look at the location of visual focus. If you need to spend too much time looking for visual focus, which means that the image visual center focus are compelling enough.

Then the same scene, also can try several times, each time will be to try to make you find other things can be used as a visual focus.

3, looking for a separate tree

The tree can be had uneventful images add vivid details and unlimited fun, so the tree can be used as an excellent visual focus minimalist photography. At the same time, the tree itself has many similarities with people, can cause the viewer's emotional resonance, and make the audience unknowingly into the picture. Go out when shooting, might as well look for a big tree, alone in the wilderness but if the environment background contains more elements, try to close to trees, reduce the interference elements of the environment. Transform shooting Angle, try different composition, until they get the clean concise picture, and get striking visual focus. Low Angle shot can be more intake of the sky screen, resulting in a white space effect.

4, images in large area of the sky

Minimalist style photograph contains the negative space of large area, big blank screen helps to create a clean picture. Because there is no can make the distraction of clutter, the viewer attention consciously attracts the main object.

Low Angle shot or make the main body in the highlands can let more the sky into the frame. But it is important to note that the mobile phone to the sky when shooting, the light effect should be considered as well as the direction of the sun. If the sun is located behind the photographer, the main light and colour effect will be strengthened, the details element will get better. If front of the sun is highest in the photographer, the subject will appear black silhouette effect. Though unable to fully present main body color and detail, but the silhouette effect picture added astonishing drama. Can put subject at the top of the mountain, and then from different angles, comparing similarities and differences.

5, shooting down

Down from a height, the earth as a background, even in the picture element and complex environment, this technique also enables us to suppress interference, shoot the photographs of the style is concise. In addition, to the ground as a background can also add a beautiful texture and color in the picture, will the pebbles on the beach, bright green lawn, the golden wheat fields or transparent clear blue water as a background picture, also received good results. Of course, don't forget to add visual focus in picture, character, interesting object, and playing ducks on the water surface and so on all can be used as a visual center focus. You can also play a creative thinking, is light, shadow, reflection, or increase the fun. Try to shoot from different angles and perspectives of slight deviation will bring to viewers a totally different picture effect and visual perception.

6, in the snow

Against the background of snow can create fairy takes effect. Below the photo for snow scene, give a person a professional indoor studio shot of illusion. In cloudy day, harmony of heaven and earth as a white, white space effect has been enhanced, or standing on high shot down, directly to the snow as a background picture, is also a kind of good method. If necessary, sliding up and down on the screen to adjust the image exposure. Because snow is extremely strong, high brightness, shooting a large area of snow, the automatic metering system of the camera will think environment is very bright, so automatically reduce exposure. In this case, take into consideration the increased exposure compensation can be made on the image effectively improve. Of course, you can also use mobile phone software carries on the post-processing, by adjusting the screen brightness and contrast, make snow looks more white and flawless.

7, in the fog

Heavy fog weather to bland landscape covered with a layer of mysterious, has brought about radical reversal, everything in sight in the minimalist style of film provides a great opportunity, dark fog can be hidden, eliminate interference, as the main body to create a layer of white, clean and bright background picture. If the trees at different distances can be intake screen along with the fog, the farther away from the camera of trees, the fog of its hidden effect is better, in the picture is fuzzy, the entire image depth will be strengthened.

8, add eye-catching colors in the pictures

If you choose white snow, unified colour such as water, grassland scenery as the background, might as well to join an eye-catching color in the picture.

The easiest way is using colorful props or clothing: Ming yan's umbrella can usually be minimalist photography the right-hand man, of course, you can also like the photo above, with the help of a painted chair come deck. Give full play to the imagination and creativity, can also take extraordinary minimalist photography. If choose characters as visual focus, you can let people wear bright color coat, dress or hat, you can also like above, put on a pair of red boots, his feet into the picture. Perhaps in the background picture can also find some brightly colored objects, painted hut, for example, or bright boat. Add eye-catching color picture, can let the body is more outstanding, more easy to attract attention of the viewer, in addition, red and yellow colour contrasts with the background, bring the viewer pleasant visual experience.

9, consideration composition,

Even a picture of a minimalist does not exist too much visual elements, but also how the element configuration plays a very important role in the overall picture. As its composition will have an impact on the degree of visual focus to attract, at the same time can also affect the image of visual balance, such as the guide line can be a very good composition tool, the guide line can lead the viewer eye, increase the scene depth, and create magical effect of symmetry. Around the body looking for can create a "framework" for the effect of visual elements, such as tunnel or branches, these elements can make a subject more prominent, the focus is more conspicuous.

The framework of how to decorate the main body, is to place it in the picture center, on the third point, or placed in the frame edge? The location of the main body will play a significant role for picture composition. If you cannot determine which can produce the best picture composition, might as well make the main body in a different position, to shoot a few pieces, and then a premade picture, select the best one.

10, with the help of mobile phone app

Shooting is completed, mobile phone repair software can help you to cut unnecessary visual elements, in the photos or add other elements to balance the composition. Images of any distract viewer’s attention of visual elements, such as signs, electrical, or junk, and you can use apps to repair the figure. If there is a people the distraction of the foreground objects, can use the app, the outlook design with beautiful reflection. If the picture looks unbalanced, can add another element in the photos, pictures so as to improve the overall composition.