Minimalism Draft 1

This is the first draft of my new series project on minimalism. Minimalism is a fairly subjective concept that leaves much room for the artist's interpretation  but it essentially boils down to the idea of using as few distinct elements in your photograph as possible. Keeping things simple. I struggled about with the open-ended nature of the idea, so I'll definitely need more time to explore the concept. So far of mostly focused on   striking subjects with a plain backgrounds.

Series Project Ideas

Minimalism

Gabriele Basilico Emulation (cityscapes)

Nostalgia

Negative Space

Here's my most recent series- a project on negative space. I started with the basics here, focusing mostly on buildings and aerial shots. I went for simple lighting and composed my shorts in a fairly basic manner.

Experimental Series

Here's my series working with my favorite filter from my previous experimental work; watercolor. The filter creates a dark and grainy look to the shot, but it's intrusion is minimal relatively speaking. Sometimes you don't even notice its' inclusion. Because off the dark nature of the filter, I had to pick images with plenty of natural light, and ignore exposure as the filter essentially did that for me. I also found that macro images worked well with this effect.

Edited Series

For this series, we took previous images and experimented with new editing techniques. I don't like to heavily edit my images, so I stuck to mostly simple filters and more basic exposure and color changes. Some of these were also shot initially in raw, my first time shooting in that format.

Crop, Cut Out

Glowing Edges

Crop, Exposure, White Balance, Watercolor

Crop, Water Paper

Ink Outlines

Crop, Poster Edges

Crop, Exposure, Temperature, Sprayed Strokes

Exposure, Contrast, White Balance, Watercolor

Basilico Emulation Best Of

Here are my six favorite images from my series project emulating Gabriele Basilico. I learned a few interesting things during this series. First, a reminder that photography is all about preparation. Architectural/city landscape photography requires a lot of work just to get to the right angles/perspectives. I also learned a lot about the possible usages of negative space, an aspect of composition I didn't usually consider in the past. I returned to shoot in black and white for the first time in a while, and I think I learned not to overload the contrast and exposure in the editing process of said shots. It's something I used to do when I first started shooting black and white, and I lost a lot of the more interesting details in my photographs because of that. Anyways...

Basilico Emulation Third Draft

The third draft of my series emulating the Italian architectural photographer Gabriele Basilico. I continued with the same themes, and focusing on simple colors and negative space in the compositional aspects of my work. I also shot some in the rain, which provided some really good lighting.