This is one in a series of books from the authors on the wonderful world of color photography. The “Colour My World” series focuses on demonstrating the methods, approaches, and techniques that can be used by photographers to creatively use color in an artistic way to tell stories about life and the world around us. Each book in the series focuses on color image-making applied to a particular genre/style of photography or a specific subject.
This volume focuses on the creation of minimalist images with great color.
In photography, minimalism is about distilling a scene to its most essential elements, removing distractions, and focusing on what truly matters. Minimalist photographs can range in color from black and white to monochromatic, to subtle color palettes, to bright and bold colors with plenty of contrast. This book showcases minimalist compositions with simple shapes, patterns, and lines featuring bold colors. Color plays a simple but very impactful role in each of the images showcased in this book.
The initial chapters of the book discuss color theory, the art and techniques for creating minimalist photographs, and the application of minimalist photography to different genres, such as abstract, architecture, nature, landscape, and portrait photography.