here are some great ideas for minimalist photography. do you need to try taking an aerial shot and shoot directly downward? try to create a large amount of negative space and place your subject matter somewhere interesting in the photo. try to get a clean, uniform backdrop - maybe incorporate much more sky than you normally would.
banal: "commonplace"
ordinary, everyday objects that you wouldn't normally think twice about photographing, like the objects underneath your bed. how can you make it look interesting? do you need get down low?
the work of william eggleston has been described as "perfectly banal." he was one of the first photographers to use color in a time when color was not considered an art form but a means for generating family snapshots. to me the word banal evokes a bland mid-century feel, and that was before i even discovered william eggleston last week! here's some shots of mine (the last few were taken with a film fish eye camera but you can still get a feel of the subject matter).
Tips for the week:
1.Always format your memory card with your camera, don’t delete files on the computer, and don’t edit files on the memory card itself. doing so can corrupt the files on the card, and files unreadable or even unwritable with your camera.
2.Rely on your histogram, not your LCD screen. A lot of cameras adjust the brightness depending on the surroundings which doesn’t give an accurate representation of the exposure. Try not to “clip the highlights” – if the histogram is shifted too far to the right, it is overexposed. here is some more information on histograms
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