2024 Anchorage Ole' Photography SIG Contest

Graffiti - Landscape - Minimalist - Open

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Minimalist

Minimalist photography is a form of photography that is distinguished by extreme simplicity. It focuses solely on the smallest number of objects, and it’s normally composed in a clean, clinical way with very little differences in the colors and tones of the image.

Minimalism can be applied to pretty much every genre of photography, including portrait, landscape, still life, architecture, and even street shooting. But minimalist photos do have a few key characteristics:

• Negative space. Minimalist photos tend to feature lots of empty, or negative, space. Negative space is composed of expanses of pure color or texture, such as a broad stretch of ocean or a featureless white sky.
• A small main subject. Minimalist compositions keep the subject small in the frame so that they’re dwarfed by negative space.
• Limited clutter. Minimalism emphasizes simplicity, and minimalist photos tend to feature a main subject, lots of empty space, and nothing else. Minimalist photographers carefully refine their compositions until no extra elements – such as poles or telephone lines in the background – exist. The more clutter you can eliminate from your shots, the more minimalist they’ll be.

Minimalist photography is often described as having a meditative quality thanks to the simplicity of the composition. Less is more.

If you do a web search for Minimalist Photography you will find many good examples

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