How To Do MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY!

[@adriancaleanu]

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[@stevef1314]

Haven't been to Cultus Lake in years. Watching this makes me want to make the trek out there from the city. Hopefully we'll get a rare, clear weekend day over the next few months before the hoards of campers and tourists take over in the spring.

[@adriancaleanu]

Haha, for sure. I was all alone when I shot the vlog. Very nice experience.I really like that location. I'm planning on shooting it again but from the other side of the lake. From the south side.

[@ToyoteroMundial]

Subscribed. Hope to see many more videos on your channel in 2025 and beyond.

[@adriancaleanu]

Thanks a lot! And I really appreciate the encouragement!

[@mikiethebikie]

Brilliant images👏👏👏

[@adriancaleanu]

Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it!

[@ronjenkins4257]

Gorgeous images. i don't know how you had time to shoot video, narrate, reposition, photograph all in a short time.

[@adriancaleanu]

Thanks a lot! When the location is photogenic, is much easier to shoot a lot of good photos. You don't have to work that hard to find good compositions. As you saw in the video, there was a lot of drama all around haha. Lake reflections, sunset, those awesome clouds and the moody fog in the end. A lot of things to photograph. And between these photos, you just talk to the camera and say what you have to say - about the location, what's the plan for the shoot, things that you find interesting at that particular location. It's like having a conversation with someone but that someone is the camera. I think I had in total about 2 h to shoot the photos and the video before total darkness. It's enough time to get photos and enough footage for a 15 min video.

[@mohabouhousse7282]

👌👌👌

[@adriancaleanu]

✌🙂

[@nononsenseBennett]

The hardest part of photography is choosing the perfect shot when so many shots look perfect. Any tips?

[@adriancaleanu]

When I shoot a very picturesque location I take tons of photos because every shot will have something different. Plus, not all the photos will be good enough, so multiple photos with multiple angles and subjects give me more chances to have an awesome shot. The more you shoot, the more you train your eye to see in frames. You will learn to pick out smaller frames within the large landscape without even looking through the view finder. You will see the photo before taking the photo. I'm looking strong compositions. Balance, symmetry, frame in a frame, foreground elements and so on. Shooting in a beautiful location is easy because you get your photo pretty much handed on a plate. Locations like forests are the ones that are difficult because as photographers we need to create some sort of sense and order in a very chaotic environment. Hope this helps.

[@SIRANAthe60plusYouTuber]

Nice photography, viewed on my Laptop and liked and Subscribed on my mobile phone ❤.

[@adriancaleanu]

Thanks a lot! Cheers!

[@urbantactical148]

Would be interested on how you edited those.

[@adriancaleanu]

First I applied a preset that I created and then I tweaked whatever I needed to tweak - exposure, saturation, contrast and so on.

[@SIRANAthe60plusYouTuber]

No mention.

[@johnconn982]

Wonderful images, but please do not refer to them as”Minimalist “ . I see this often with photographers claiming they are minimalist. I understated it’s not a well defined term , but it does have a definition, and it’s not the term in the dictionary.

[@adriancaleanu]

Thank ya! Nature really helped me out that day haha. Well, minimalism is using very simple ideas or a small number of elements. In other words, being extremely simple. I think the term is spot on. Also you have to keep in mind that this is in the photography context. For example the word Exposure in the photography context is different than the word exposure if we talk about walking naked on the street lol.

[@johnconn982]

@@adriancaleanu sorry it’s not spot on. When used as an ART term Minimalism has an elusive definition and is difficult to understand, however it has nothing to do with the dictionary definition. Well, small number of “ objects “ yes, however, and this is primary, they need to have a specific relation to the frame , and not just be a pleasing picture.