The Triple Split

Minimalism as Less Elements

Minimalist Photography by © Prakash Ghai
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A Black and White/ Monochrome Minimalist Photograph of a Street Lamp's shadow falling on the corner of a building forming a Triple Split.

This Minimalism as Less Elements Minimalist Photo, is a corner shot of a building taken during a sunny afternoon. 

The Light and Shadow games played by nature, are always interesting and this Minimalist Photograph captures that. Look at how beautifully the shadow of the lamp got split by three lines. I spotted this Triple Split near the Akshardham temple in Vaishali Nagar.


This photograph has depth and dimension and therefore is way better than flat photos. You may try and include more depth by getting really creative with angles. The highlights, as you can see are quite bright and some portion has lost a bit of detail. It is actually just on the limits. A step further and the details would be lost completely. Why I did this? to make the shades of gray stand out among each other and to show clearly the light and shadow differential.

Other Minimalist Photos taken at Akshardham Temple, Jaipur:

- Hypnotic Tree

Minimalist Photography Video Part - I

A Video slideshow / collection of select Minimalist Photographs.

Every now and then I make a compilation of Minimalist Photographs that I have posted in the past. on this blog. After carefully curating some of the best Minimalist Photographs I create a Video Slideshow of them and post them as a Video on my YouTube Channel. It is a series that I wish to continue.

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Minimalist Photography Video Part - I

           

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- Minimalist Photography Video Part - III

- Types of Minimalism

Bird Vs Lines

Minimalism as in Small Objects

Minimalist Photography by © Prakash Ghai
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A Black and White Minimalist Photo of a Bird sitting on the wall, with lines complementing it.

This Minimalist Shot was taken at Jawahar Kala Kendra - Jaipur, using two walls of different colors to show contrast between them. Later during editing, I turned the Photograph into Black and White and that further enhanced the contrast between the two walls. 

This Photograph has been intentionally captured from a distance, so that the size of the Bird appeared very small, making it a perfect fit for the "Minimalism as in Small Objects" category of Minimalist Photography.

A Word on the Composition.

The Little Bird sitting between two Diagonal Lines caught my eye to begin with. I had to be fast enough, which I was, so that the Little Bird did not fly away during the composition of the Photograph. Thankfully, the Little Bird stayed long enough and I had a decent Black and White Minimalist Photograph.

This is a Multi-layer shot. There is some distance between the two walls. The light gray one is nearer to the frame and the dark gray one is quite far. I joined these two sections visually and placed the Little Bird nearly at the intersection of the lines of the Two walls.

Also, I had to move a lot to my left and right, and I tried various combinations and angles to get this right.

Below is a Similar shot from the Same Location that you might be interested in:

• Lone Dove

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Clay Pot

Minimalism as Less Elements

Minimalist Photography by © Prakash Ghai
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A Minimalist Photograph of a Brown clay pot against a pink wall.

This Minimalist Shot was taken at Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur. Opposite to Jawahar Kala Kendra, there is a lane that goes towards Jhalana Doongri.

Right at that corner, there are a few kiosks for food, tea and cigarettes. It was a holiday that day. This cigarette shop or "Pan Ki Thadi" (as we call it in Hindi) was located near those food shops. The shop was closed being a holiday and I liked the Pink Shutter of it a lot.

Just next to this Pan Shop, there was a handmade clay pottery shop. One of the Clay Pots was set aside, maybe because it was broken from the bottom or something. The Clay Pot was found sitting idle right in front of the closed Pan Shop, that had this beautiful pink colored metal shutter.

The isolated Clay Pot contrasted so well against the pink shutter of the closed Pan Shop that I had to stop and take a shot of it. The set up was perfect as I had loads of Negative Space on the left to compose a classic Minimalist Photograph. I literally, went down on my knees for this one.

Also note, that there is an Abstract Shadow Triangle on the left and the Three Simple Vertical Lines on the closed shop shutter, adds brilliantly to the Minimalist Frame.

I did try a Black and White version of this shot and I had also posted it on my Facebook timeline, because Minimalist Photos looks extremely good in Black and White, But later, I reverted to the Original Irresistible Pink Color. Pink won hands down.

The Photo falls under Minimalism as Less Elements category of Minimalist Photography.

Click here to learn all the Types of Minimalism in Minimalist Photography: Types of Minimalism in Photography

More Minimalist Photos containing Pink:

Tapering In

Brass Water Tap on Pink Indian Wall with Subtle Texture

Light Shadow and Lines

Minimalism as Less Elements

Photo by © Prakash Ghai
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A Black and White Minimalist Photo composed by a combination of Light Shadows and Lines

What we have here is an attempt at creating a Minimalist Photograph by using the Contrast between Light and Shadows. 

The intent of shooting in Black and White is, to draw the viewer's attention to the Lines, Enhance Focus on the patterns, and to bring out the intricacies among-st the elements in the frame as a whole.

Art that nature creates through Light and Shadows, hold a very special significance. They appear for a moment and until you are there at the same place, the same time, with the same camera settings, you could probably can never repeat the shot. 

The dark wall that you see on the left was red in color and the white on the right was yellow. You need good color contrasts, in order to make the photo look good in Black and White, especially a Minimalist one.

The Less Elements part of the photo is, that all the lines i.e the Simple Geometric shape here, in totality is considered as "One Element", the second supporting element is, Light and Shadow. 

This Minimalist Photograph could very well be categorized under Minimalism as Simple Geometry as well. It actually depends on what or how the Photographer really wants to present the Photograph.