Railing Shadow

Minimalism as Less Elements

Photo By © Prakash Ghai
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What we have here is a Black and White Minimalist Photograph of the Shadow of a Metal Railing at Jantar Mantar Jaipur, India, shot via Canon 6D Mark II Camera.

This is a special photograph for me as I love long shadows and this one I took by getting downstairs the main Sun Dial at Jantar Mantar. 

I wanted to show the Shadow of the Bar with a Spherical shape on the top left, falling on the right side of the Wall. 

To add more interest into the photo, I also included the Black area on the top right i.e the Zig Zag kind of shape. 

I could have otherwise cropped it or taken the shot more from my right hand side a few minutes earlier to keep it clean...

Black and White was a Choice while shooting and I had my camera in the Monochrome mode.

Would love to hear your Feedback on the choice of my Subject, the Elements and the Composition. 

Thank you

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Curl Vs Lines

Minimalism as Less Elements

Photo By © Prakash Ghai
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A Minimalist Photograph of a Blue Metal Curl mounted on a Textured White Indian Wall at a Cafe in Jaipur City

I took this photograph at a cafe in Jaipur, India. A blue metal curl mounted on a textured white wall, right next to a blue wooden window with simple horizontal lines.

What we have here are only two elements in one frame. This is the less elements approach in minimalist photography.

The curl and the lines as you can see are opposites. One is fluid and circular, the other one is straight and repetitive.

Keeping both in the same frame creates a natural juxtaposition among these two forms.

Close up minimal is something I keep coming back to. When you move physically closer to a subject, two things happen.

The background sorts of collapsed and disappears and the details actually take over.

Here the white wall becomes the negative space and the two blue elements become the entire story in the frame.

The texture of the wall adds just enough interest without drawing attention away from the curl and the lines.

Blue against white is as clean as it can get in terms of having a minimalist color palette that is ideal for Minimalist Photography

There are no extra colours and the background is not busy. This is what declutter or decluttering means in minimalist photography.

You are not removing things in post processing, rather you are choosing your position and your frame in such a way that only what matters stays in the frame.

Minimalist Photography in Jaipur

Jaipur gives you these kinds of photography subjects constantly. The old city is full of walls, windows, doors and ironwork painted and repainted over decades.

Th modern city full of cafes and hangouts is no less. The colours are saturated, the surfaces are textured and the details reward a close eye. Most people walked past these without a second look.

The cafe I was at, had maybe twenty people sitting in it when I captured this shot.

Simplicity in Minimalist Photography

Simplicity in photography is not about finding simple subjects. It is about finding the simple version from a complex scene.

This wall had a door, a sign, tables, chairs and people around it. I moved in close, excluded everything else and found the photograph inside all of that.

Camera Settings:

• Aperture F/22
• Shutter Speed 1/80
• ISO 3200
• Canon EOS 6D Mark II
• Canon 50mm Prime F/1.4

This photograph falls under Minimalism as Less Elements. 

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Prakash Ghai