evening ride, by poisson lucas

Let me remind you, Minimalism is “design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.”

What does that mean? It means deliberately seeking more and more negative space. It means, avoiding detailed images. It means all these things, and more.

pan, by Alex Matravers

Don’t be afraid to go back and reread my first challenge, where I think I laid out a decent approach to all my Minimalism challenges throughout the whole year.

• This week’s theme allows you to deliberately cause a decreased amount of detail, by the use of the skill called panning. Panning is actually capturing motion, by moving your camera, along with a moving subject. Now, be careful, you can pan for an image, but not get a minimalistic image. I’m including two goals within this week’s theme, panning, and minimalism. Achieving this week’s theme requires that you do both.

Panning, by Nisarg Lakhmani

As always, I like to point you to other well written articles that better inform than I can.

• Mastering Panning – Photographing Moving Subjects
• Panning Photography Tips

As you see in the sample images I’ve included with this post, you’ll see that the photographer chooses their subject that is moving, and moves along with it, to capture it in a frozen state, all the while the background and foreground are blurred out of focus. This introduces us to the simplifying of everything, but the subject…enhancing the minimalist looking photograph.

Nightspeed, by Daveblog

I’ve mentioned it before…TAKE YOUR CAMERA WITH YOU EVERYWHERE! Try not to plan this shot. Try to see it coming, and be ready for it. Don’t submit the first one you get. Take at least three, to challenge yourself to get the very best image. I don’t want to see the three, that’s for you. You create several images, and choose the very best piece of art, and submit it.

speed of light, by Jonathan Cohen

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