Challenge 53 - "Minimalism and Simplicity" hosted by Francisco Villegas
Minimalism and Simplicity
Minimalism by the dictionary.....
- A school of painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.
Simplicity (photography)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In photography, technique of simplicity is used to achieve the effect of singling out an item or items from their surrounding.
Well, about Minimalist and Simplicity Photography... I'd say it's the use of the minimum quantity of subjects, elements or shapes over open (empty) spaces or backgrounds, making those spaces as simples as possible, examples of this: the sky, sea, snow, walls, grass, wood, etc., you may even use Foamcore or something similar. Using a shallow DOF can also produce uniform backgrounds (but remember, the space should be dominant and an active part of the composition, not just a background for a closeup).
Being minimalist, as I read somewhere... "The minimalist photography emphasizes simplicity and objectivity".
I encourage you to include titles since they add to the creativity.
Guidelines for the challenge can be found here:
Please read them and if you have questions, post them in the challenge thread. If you have ideas, techniques or methods to share, please post those too.
I've no problem on how many postprocessing you do, always than the image will look like a Photograph, not an artistic painting style picture, neither blend or stitch 2 or more different images, or copy elements from a picture to another, no frames please.
Exhibition gallery submissions (2 per member) may have been taken at any time and with any brand of camera. There is no competition for the Exhibit.
The Challenge is open to all members of the Olympus Talk Forum and the photos must be taken with an Olympus digital camera. (Olympus DSLRs included).
Challenge entries (1 per member) must be taken and submitted during the challenge period which starts NOW, whatever it's your local date and time, and runs through Monday, Febraury 5 at 05:00 AM Venezuelan Standard Time. Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=58
Challenge entries and exhibition gallery submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address:
You'll receive a confirmation email from me in a period of 24 hours (should be much less), otherwise please send it again.
Please include the word “challenge” or “exhibition” in the subject heading. Be sure to include your dpreview forum name and titles for your images. And be sure that the EXIF information is included...use 'save as' and not 'save for web'.
