Minimalism

[preetham]

Hello there, I am a newbie to photography. I am very much interested in minimal photography. I just tried something in my home itself. Your feedbacks are important

[pnodrog]

Welcome. O'dear your first post will probably generate a discussion as to what is photography and what is graphic design or some other form of art. I find what you have done quite pleasing but feel the photographic content makes too minimal a contribution to the overall image for me to comment as a photographer. I look forward to seeing more replies.

[preetham]

Sorry, I didn't get what you mean by the last few lines. However I understand this that what I clicked is not exactly a minimal. Am I right?

[lunarbo]

Hello Preetham

I am curious as how you produced the image shown - what part was a photograph and what you did to it so as to produce the final image. As it is, I agree with Paul's comments above, so would welcome your input

Would like to give us some more examples of your type of "minimal photography" ?

[preetham]

Barbara, I didn't do anything to the picture I clicked. The picture I posted here is what I clicked except I just increased the saturation of blue color in Light room.
Moreover, I am not exactly sure of what minimal photography is.
So I request you to please guide me through this

[xpatUSA]

Hello there, I am a newbie to photography. I am very much interested in minimal photography. I just tried something in my home itself. Your feedbacks are important

Technical comments.

The image is over-sharpened - see light/dark halos on the edges.

The image has too much JPEG noise due to a very high compression setting.

There is a blob which should be removed.



There is no embedded camera/lens data at all. So the image could have been made by drawing, not by "clicking".

[lunarbo]

As you expressed an interest in minimal photography I expect you have your own ideas. You can find some definitions and examples on Google.

However FOR ME an example might me a tiny boat on a vast flat sea. It should be clear to the viewer that the original picture was taken by a camera , even if it had been processed to remove colour, or flatten out features etc

In your example I'm not sure how and in what way a camera was used to produce your final image that you show us- hence my enquiry .Did you for instance take a picture of part of a roller blind and then enhance your colours in LR?

This is where we run smack into Paul's comments on what is photography and what is graphic design. We will all have our own ideas - i have given you mine but you and others may well feel differently

[Wavelength]

Welcome Pretham, welcome

I wonder whether this is minimal photography or a picture of minimal concepts being photographed; you had better apply minimalism to Nature; if you have this in mind while you venture out you will definitely meet with such things, though not so frequent. In minimal photography, the empty space must be a powerful element with a synergistic effect on the object you include in your image, than being a mere blank space.

[pnodrog]

Hello there, I am a newbie to photography. I am very much interested in minimal photography. I just tried something in my home itself. Your feedbacks are important

Barbara, I didn't do anything to the picture I clicked. The picture I posted here is what I clicked except I just increased the saturation of blue color in Light room.

How as a newbie to photography do you know about increasing the saturation of blue in Lightroom?.....

[xpatUSA]

How as a newbie to photography do you know about increasing the saturation of blue in Lightroom?.....

Ouch!

[preetham]

Hii Ted, Thank you very much for the feedback
I clicked it in my mobile

[preetham]

Paul, I am newbie to photography not photoshop😅. I am also learning designing skills so I have some basic editing skills
I watch tutorials in YouTube.

[preetham]

Welcome Pretham, welcome

I wonder whether this is minimal photography or a picture of minimal concepts being photographed; you had better apply minimalism to Nature; if you have this in mind while you venture out you will definitely meet with such things, though not so frequent. In minimal photography, the empty space must be a powerful element with a synergistic effect on the object you include in your image, than being a mere blank space.

Thank you Nanda Kumar that was helpful

[Manfred M]

My views on your image are very much in line with what Paul has written. Your image looks more like graphic art than a photograph.

There is a personal interpretation on what makes up a minimalist image; what is minimalist to one photographer will be viewed as quite something else by another. I was one of three judges on a jury for a national competition where the topic was minimalism and had the opportunity of judging around 425 images. Many were very well done but many photographers had difficulty in determining how to create a strong and balanced minimalist image.

Regardless, minimalism is all about simplicity, whether that is the subject, colour palette, the background or the lighting.

In my view, this is a minimalist photograph. The subject is not overly complex, the background is simple and helps project a minimalist view of the subject.

[preetham]

My views on your image are very much in line with what Paul has written. Your image looks more like graphic art than a photograph.

There is a personal interpretation on what makes up a minimalist image; what is minimalist to one photographer will be viewed as quite something else by another. I was one of three judges on a jury for a national competition and had the opportunity of judging around 425 images. Many were very well done but many photographers had difficulty in determining how to create a strong and balanced minimalist image.

Regardless, minimalism is all about simplicity, whether that is the subject, colour palette, the background or the lighting.

In my view, this is a minimalist photograph. The subject is not overly complex, the background is simple and helps project a minimalist view of the subject.

Thank you Manfred for your valuable feedback.
I will improve my photography so that it doesn't look like a design.

[xpatUSA]

Hii Ted, Thank you very much for the feedback
I clicked it in my mobile

प्रीतम-जी नमस्ते
You are welcome. Pardon me if wrong script for you!

Does your mobile allow to set image size and quality?

[preetham]

प्रीतम-जी नमस्ते
You are welcome. Pardon me if wrong script for you!

Does your mobile allow to set image size and quality?

Ted, my mobile has three formats JPG,JPG 48MP, RAW
I clicked the pic in RAW mode and edited through lightroom.
My camera processes the raw image to jpg format.
First image is the processed image that I used to crop to get second one and finally edit in lightroom.

[pnodrog]

OK I understand a bit more about what you are doing. In this case the photography is just one technical step in the processing of the image. A step you have done well at but not significant enough to class as minimalist photography. To be truly photography you need to have taken a photograph of the butterflies in real life against a very simple background. Your isolating and photographing a wall design is creative but only really in the graphic design sense.

However it is helping you develop your photographic and editing skills.

[preetham]

OK I understand a bit more about what you are doing. In this case the photography is just one technical step in the processing of the image. A step you have done well at but not significant enough to class as minimalist photography. To be truly photography you need to have taken a photograph of the butterflies in real life against a very simple background. Your isolating and photographing a wall design is creative but only really in the graphic design sense.

However it is helping you develop your photographic and editing skills.

Thank you Paul