A little bit of minimalism never killed anyone

...or did it?

Among the many crazy mind in the world, handling a camera, I guess that at least one is wacko enough in order to kill someone or something just for the sake of a minimalist photo. Like in that movie with the guy killing young women in order to make the perfect perfume from their essences.

Nobody thought about this?! More room to grow as a photographer I guess.

I'm not a trained photographer but I do like to study. Nowadays it's just as easy as being able to spell, almost correctly. It's a matter of will more than of possibilities. Google is struggling to be as close to everybody as possible so unless you live in some tribe, deep in the jungle, that likes to kill civilized society missionaries, then you could get instructed very easily.
Minimalism came easy to me because I like to look for individual details and I strive to find the angle of shot that separates those details from the crowded world we live in. Sometimes it's harder, sometimes that's a natural thing. It depends on the location, the detail, the moment.
For me minimalism is not only about unanimated things or only about sceneries. I know very well that there are those that claim that minimalism is not about people but I have to disagree. Minimalism is about a lot of things as long as you keep it simple. Or at least try to.

Yes, this last photo is taken with my Zenit TTL and you can see the flaws in it but I would say one should also notice that the lack of details helps the minimalist composition. I personally think that a camera which captures little detail can help with the compositions in this cases. Yes, the contrast is not even close to what it should have been and that aspect damages the overall feeling of the composition but the fact that it lacked to take the details of the crows is a plus in my humble opinion.

As I'm not really a photographer, by the nature of my income, I need to invent occasions on which I photograph. Moreover I lack the time to only do tha, so minimalism in my photography just pops-up and it's really inventions of my eye. Sometimes they work, sometimes they're just bullshit.
And I like to gather them, over time. I'm not the kind of photographer on the blockchain that will claim your attention for just a photography because I don't have the certainty that it's just that good.
"Less is more", that's how I see minimalism. Try to express a heavy emotion through few visual things. Even a combination of simple patterns or lines can take you up to a very nice minimalist composition. So try it!

That's what I always say!

Don't just look at it. We don't shoot on film anymore and it doesn't cost more than the camera usage to take a shot that impressed your eye. It may look like nothing at first, in the small camera LCD. Take it into Lightroom. Play a little with it. After all photohraphy was never ONLY about straight out of camera information but it was harder in the past to just play with the composition the way we can play today.

I'm always trying to have a simple subject so I tend to find minimalism even if I zoom in. And I always zoom in physically, going there, getting in the face of the subject. That's because I'm using a fixed 50mm lens in 99% of the cases. I know my lens inside out and I'm so close to it that we learned to help each other through this cheap symbiosis.

What I like about minimalism is the fact that it doesn't really hold a lot of rules so "the beauty is still in the eyes of the beholder". You can play on its margins a lot, debate about it and you can find a lot of reasons why it is minimalism while your debater arguments for the opposite.

What about you, my blockchain photographer friends? Do you shoot minimalism? Or do you have examples of minimalism in your archive that you never thought they were worthy enough to post?

Drop your pic in the comments, maybe I'll learn something today eh? :) I'll try to upvote everything.