How to shoot minimalist landscape photography

Lead; Photography is subtraction. Maybe everyone knows this truth, so some people will say, simple, I know, is subtraction. Subtraction refers to subtracting the scenery that interferes with the expression of the subject in the picture, which is a beautification of the picture. The meaning of simplicity is beyond this range, and the method of simplicity to the limit is even different. Let me tell you how to take minimalist landscape photography.

How to shoot minimalist landscape photography depends on the monochrome and the contrast of interest points in the picture. Of course, the large-area tone here can be regarded as a single tiny pattern that appears rhythmically, or as a unity formed by lines in the same direction. For example, under a sky, a small tree on the distant horizon, a rock in the vast ocean, trees and stones may only account for 1% of the picture, and may only be the darkest objects, but this 1% is the capsule that can be sealed into time best.

Shooting essay:

Every morning, the bridge deck in the local city center is full of fishermen, which lasts until late at night. There is a floor below the bridge deck, which is full of leisure restaurants. Today, I can still recall the taste of local grilled fish.

Looking up at the fishing rod in the sky, I always feel too monotonous. Seagulls flying in front of me fell into my sight, waiting to catch their lunch. These poor little fish swimming in the water are surrounded by bait, and seagulls in the air are waiting for their negligence. An idea came to my mind, let birds and fishing rods form a landscape! I choose a white cloud as the background, waiting for the fast-flying seagulls to pass by. I long for seagulls to enter the middle of white clouds, but not all seagulls are so happy. What does this prove? Ideal is full, reality is skinny? This sentence.

If there were no birds in the picture, the picture would be simpler, perhaps extremely simple. I hope the picture can be reminiscent in extreme simplicity, so I still like the picture of a bird passing by. As for whether readers can see that this fish is in a lower position in the food chain, some readers will always see it. This is also my pursuit of photography. There is a story behind the picture and the author's thoughts.

Title: Fishing

Venue: Istanbul, Turkey

Shooting time: 20 12.08. 18.

Shooting parameters: f/141125s exposure compensation: 0 EV matrix photometry ISO 100.

Equipment used: Nikon D3x camera Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Telephoto is a simple weapon.

It has been said that the process of learning landscape photography is from telephoto to wide angle. From the shooting range of the lens, from the simple to the extreme landscape photography form, this process is easy to understand, telephoto is easy to choose the scenery in the real world, that is, it is easy to do subtraction as mentioned above. After understanding the composition of photography and the limit of simplicity, it is an improvement to cut the world with a wide angle.

You can take pictures at any time in scenic and distant places. Most of our extremely simple landscape photography works are wide-angle shots, which need a large area of bedding.

This kind of simple and extreme photographic work brings readers a clear visual difference. Therefore, this kind of work can be classified as a photographic expression, using a large aperture to blur the background, using a long exposure to create a uniform flow effect of the picture, using a high-key and low-key way to control the tone and highlight the main highlights of the picture, and various technical means are still in use.

Enjoy simplicity

In my eyes, minimalist pictures always make me feel quiet and intriguing. The first half of this sentence is easy to understand, and some people will feel confused later. If simplicity is a life attitude, then the limit of simplicity is the ideal pursuit and a realm under this attitude. In this realm, a large area of the picture is left blank, and the picture forces the reader to have few visual elements, but it leaves more room for thinking, does not force the reader to see anything, does not fill your eyes with light and shadow, does not tell extravagant stories, and gives the reader more free imagination space, which will cross the metaphor of the main body of the picture. The small tree mentioned in the above example is small to humble, small to insignificant, and small to live strong?

This is the highest state of simplicity to the extreme.

Shooting essay:

Walking on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Sichuan, you will pass through many fault zones and river valleys along the way, which are the shooting points of photographers. When you see a clean background, put a horse into the lens, which constitutes a simple and beautiful picture.

Venue: Sichuan, China

Shooting parameters: f/4.8 1/90s exposure compensation: 0.5 EV matrix photometry ISO 100.

Equipment used: Fuji FinePix S3 Pro Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Shooting essay:

After covering the camera with a waterproof cover, the camera can be immersed in water to shoot. The main point of this photo is that the lens of the camera is half out of the water and half out of the sea, so the sea and the sky are exposed at the same time, and different worlds are presented in the same photo, which is simple and changeable.

Venue: Semporna, Malaysia

Shooting parameters: f/6.3 1/800 s exposure compensation:-1 EV matrix photometry ISO 100.

Equipment: Nikon D3x Nikon 20mm f/2.8 lens.

Shooting essay:

There are many clumsy penguins in the cold Antarctic. When we walked across the ice and snow surface, we left a deep pit, so when we left, we had to fill it with snow again, because we were afraid that penguins would get stuck in it. In Antarctica, there are penguins on every island. These penguins can survive and reproduce in the cold of MINUS 60 degrees. On land, it is like a western gentleman in a tuxedo, staggering, stumbling and flustered when in danger. But in the water, the penguin's short wings become a powerful pair? Paddle? Swimming speed can reach 25 ~ 30 kilometers per hour. You can swim 160km in one day. Mainly feed on krill, squid and small fish.

Location: South Pole

Shooting parameters: f/8 1/200 s exposure compensation: 0 EV matrix photometry ISO 100.

Equipment used: Kangtaishi 645 45mm lens.