Minimalism

C & T: Rule of thirds, selective focus (window is out of focus), leading lines (lead to window) & framing (white of window and the red outside of that)

C & T: Informal balance (sides of the diagonal line), sharp focus & leading lines (the diagonal lines guide your eyes)

C & T: Rule of thirds, sharp focus, leading lines (lead to door), grouping (of the slats) & framing (the door frame and the wood changing direction)

C & T: Informal balance (amount of barn shown), selective focus (the branches and the background, it varies), framing (the barn frames the branches) & grouping (of branches)

C & T: Informal balance (branches vs weather vane & open sky), sharp focus, leading lines (branches lead to vane), grouping (of branches & twigs) & high key lighting.

C & T: informal balance, selective focus, leading lines & grouping

C & T: Informal balance, silhouette lighting, selective focus, grouping, high horizon line & high key lighting.

C & T: informal balance (door knob vs white wall), sharp focus & grouping (slats of wood).

C & T: Informal balance (wood v white painted wood), sharp focus, framing (white around the brown-orange) & high key lighting.

C & T: Selective focus, grouping & high-key lighting.

C & T: informal balance, silhouette lighting, selective focus & grouping (branches).

My focus for this project was minimalism and how I could take interesting landscapes and architecture photos. I took all the images outside. Most days had blue sky and sun, but a few were overcast. I used my Canon Rebel SL1 dslr to take all these photos and I used my 55-200 lens so I could get closer from greater distance. To edit them I used photos. I chose minimalism because I wanted to focus on lines, shapes and texture that are often looked over because they are part of something bigger, in nature and architecture.

I edited all of these images using photos. I changed the exposure, brilliance and contrast in most of them, I also increased saturation in a few of them. I cropped the pictures of architecture to help draw focus to what's in the image, not what's around the building.

When taking these images I focused on the phrase "Less is more," this captures what minimalism is. When taking images I looked closer at landscapes and buildings looking for ways to capture a beautiful image that doesn't have much going on. I took pictures in many different locations which was an adventure for me and my dogs. These images relate to my life because I took them and edited them, each image is unique to my eyes. In the future when I focus on minimalism I want to focus on taking full landscapes that have simplicity, most of the images I took are taken up-close. This is minimalism, but I think it would be interesting to take minimalistic landscapes in the fog or of fields with barns. My favorite images from this project are the ones that combine nature and man-made.