{"slug":"minimalist-photography-myth","title":"极简风格摄影等于构图简单？99%的摄影爱好者都理解错啦！","author":"Thomas看看世界","date":"2022-06-26","wechat":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI4NDA5MzE5NQ==&mid=2247495667&idx=1&sn=4c1ff3f5a82d2a95f28b2ae6ae578e80&chksm=eb821197dcf5988108684098a3d009bfa9ddaf8be71ac10cb52d22574c9fc4db350d180a6e5c&scene=21#wechat_redirect","blocks":[{"t":"p","x":"极简风格摄影作品，现在在网上非常的热门。","b":false,"xe":"Minimalist photography is hugely popular on the internet these days."},{"t":"p","x":"很多爱好者误以为极简摄影的核心，是寻找简单的画面和简洁的构图，其实这是一个常见的误区。","b":false,"xe":"Many enthusiasts mistakenly believe that the core of minimalist photography is finding simple scenes and clean compositions. That is actually a common misconception."},{"t":"img","f":"img-01","w":1000,"h":1166},{"t":"p","x":"今天的摄影教程中，Thomas会和大家分享极简风格摄影的真正核心创作思路，以及常见的构图技巧。","b":false,"xe":"In today's tutorial, Thomas shares the true core creative thinking behind minimalist photography, along with common composition techniques."},{"t":"h","x":"视频","xe":"Video"},{"t":"bili","bv":"BV1BY411N7kK","bpic":"bili-1","bt":"极简风格摄影等于构图简单？99%的摄影爱好者都理解错啦！"},{"t":"p","x":"这一篇是上面视频的完整图文整理。Thomas 用 13 分钟讲透了极简风格摄影的核心创作思路与常见误区：为什么「简」不等于简单，四类最常用的兴趣点（几何结构、色彩搭配、影调层次、主体与瞬间）分别怎么找、怎么用。文章配上了视频中的要点卡片与关键帧截图，适合先读图建立框架，再到视频里听完整讲解。","xe":"This is the fully illustrated companion to the video above. In 13 minutes Thomas breaks down the core creative thinking behind minimalist photography and its most common misconception: why “jian” (simplify) does not mean simple, and how to find and use the four most common points of interest — geometry, color pairings, tonal layers, and subjects or decisive moments. The article pairs the video's summary cards and keyframe screenshots with the full text, so you can build the framework here and hear the details in the video.","b":false},{"t":"p","x":"先看总览。下面这张要点卡截自视频 0:54 处，一句话版本是：极简风格的核心在于寻找到核心兴趣点，其次才是做减法。","xe":"Start with the overview. This summary card comes from 0:54 in the video, and its one-line version reads: the core of minimalist style is finding the point of interest first — subtraction comes second.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v01","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"01 极简不等于简单","xe":"01 Minimal Does Not Mean Simple"},{"t":"p","x":"很多人一看到「简」这个字，就把极简摄影理解成一种非常简单的摄影，总结出来的画面就是简洁、简约，于是拿着相机到处寻找那些干净的白墙和大片留白。Thomas 在视频开头（0:57 处）明确指出：这样理解并不准确，而且经常把新手带进误区。","xe":"Many people see the character for “simple” and conclude that minimalist photography must be easy photography — clean, spare frames with generous negative space, hunted down wherever a blank wall presents itself. At the start of the video (0:57) Thomas points out that this reading is inaccurate, and that it regularly leads beginners astray.","b":false},{"t":"p","x":"「简」的真实意义在于突出中心：去除繁杂的元素，只突出照片的某些特征和兴趣点，给人以直观的冲击力。所以说简只是方法，是为了去掉多余的元素，突出那些最有兴趣、最有几何特征、最有故事感的东西（视频 1:20 处）。极简风格的创作核心，不是去寻找简单或简洁的画面，而是先找到非常有兴趣的元素、非常极致的瞬间、非常漂亮的几何结构和色彩碰撞，然后再对它们做减法，把不相关的杂物裁掉（视频 1:41 处）。","xe":"The real meaning of “simplify” is emphasizing the center: removing clutter so that only certain features and points of interest remain, hitting the viewer directly. Simplification is a method — its job is to strip away the redundant so the most interesting, most geometric, most story-laden elements stand out (at 1:20 in the video). The creative core of minimalist style is not hunting for simple or sparse scenes; it is finding compelling elements, striking moments, beautiful geometric structures and color collisions first, then subtracting everything unrelated around them (at 1:41 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v02","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"02 兴趣点一 几何结构","xe":"02 Point of Interest No.1: Geometry"},{"t":"p","x":"Thomas 把网上热门的极简风格照片归纳出几类常见兴趣点，第一种就是几何结构（视频 2:27 处），包括线条、色块、影子、重复、呼应、对比等等。比如视频 3:55 处这张作品：人行横道的斑马线本来就是城市中常见的几何结构，斜着取景后黑白条纹充满画面，再搭配一个正好经过的红衣人，对比和呼应就都有了。","xe":"Thomas sorts popular minimalist photographs into several common types of points of interest, the first being geometric structure (at 2:27 in the video): lines, color blocks, shadows, repetition, echoes, contrasts and the like. Take the work at 3:55 in the video: a zebra crossing is already one of the city's most familiar geometric patterns; shot diagonally so the black-and-white stripes flood the frame, then paired with a red-clad pedestrian passing through, it gains both contrast and echo.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v03","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"几何结构在自然界里同样好用。视频 4:20 处这张沙漠照片纯粹只拍沙丘的线条，但因为曲线本身足够美，加上上下明暗的对比，看着简单却非常漂亮。在冰雪、沙漠上行走的人也会留下几何线条——人走出来的痕迹和沙漠本身的线条交织，就是现成的画面。","xe":"Geometry works just as well in nature. The desert photograph at 4:20 in the video does nothing but photograph the lines of a dune, yet because the curve itself is beautiful and the light-dark division adds contrast, it looks simple and is lovely. People walking across snow or sand leave geometric lines too — the trail they trace weaving with the dune's own contours is a ready-made picture.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v04","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v05","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"关键是抓住核心：极简照片并不是因为简单而好看，而是因为你发现了有意思的几何结构。视频 5:15 处那张非常漂亮的线条中间落了一只鸽子，起的就是画龙点睛的作用。一般来说，一张好的极简照片往往是多种兴趣元素的搭配——比如本期封面照片，既要有黄青红的色彩对撞，又要发现栏杆和影子组成的线条（视频 3:19 处），找到这样的视角一点也不简单。","xe":"The key is holding onto the core: minimalist photos are not beautiful because they are simple, but because you noticed an interesting geometry. In the frame at 5:15 in the video, a pigeon landing amid an elegant line of light plays the finishing-touch role. As a rule, a good minimalist photo combines several interest elements at once — the cover photo of this episode needs both the yellow-cyan-red color clash and the line formed by a railing and its shadow (at 3:19 in the video), and finding that viewpoint is anything but easy.","b":false},{"t":"h","x":"03 兴趣点二 色彩搭配","xe":"03 Point of Interest No.2: Color Pairings"},{"t":"p","x":"第二种常见的兴趣点是色彩的搭配与对冲（视频 2:35 处）。常见元素有两路：一路是人造的，比如人物的衣物、人工建筑；另一路是自然界的大块色彩，比如天空、沙漠、海洋、冰雪、盐湖。当然还可以通过后期调色主动去做色彩搭配。最典型的配方是一大片天空或沙滩，配上一个点缀的云朵和一个人，就是一张非常典型的极简风格照片（视频 5:29 处）。","xe":"The second common point of interest is the pairing and clashing of colors (at 2:35 in the video). The usual elements come from two directions: man-made ones such as clothing and architecture, and nature's broad fields of color — sky, desert, ocean, snow and ice, salt flats. Post-processing can also build color pairings deliberately. The classic recipe is a huge sweep of sky or beach plus one dotted cloud and a single figure — instantly a textbook minimalist frame (at 5:29 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v06","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"实操里最常用的是冷暖色对比，以及日出日落、蓝调紫调时刻的和谐色彩（视频 5:46 处）。还有一种高频手法：一大片白色、黑色、灰色或其他颜色中间，放一个另外颜色的元素——比如一个人——就能形成非常强烈的视觉中心。视频 6:08 处这张作品里，背景的墙组成了几何结构，大片的黄色与前景相近却不同的土色搭配起来非常有意思。","xe":"In practice the workhorses are warm-cool contrast, plus the harmonious palettes of sunrise, sunset and the blue and purple hours (at 5:46 in the video). Another high-frequency move: place a single differently-colored element — often a person — inside a large field of white, black, gray or any other color, and it becomes a powerful visual center. In the work at 6:08 in the video, the background wall supplies the geometry, and the broad yellow plays off a foreground earth tone that is similar yet distinct — a genuinely intriguing pairing.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v07","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"后期统一色调也是一条路。视频 6:27 处提到一位野生动物摄影师，拍的动物其实和大家的没什么两样，核心优势是通过后期压暗并附上现在很流行的青色调，观众就觉得耳目一新。Thomas 自己的照片也是同样的思路（视频 6:49 处）：碧海蓝天下几个人裸着上身、穿着五颜六色的游泳裤，前景的橡皮艇和沙滩让色彩更丰富，取的是一个极限构图。还有冰雪与水面结冰后的青蓝色，和蓝白色块的对比（视频 7:09 处）；以及视频 7:20 处这张胡杨林——橙色调的树与水面的蓝色调做冷暖对比，色彩对撞非常有吸引力。","xe":"Unifying tones in post is another route. At 6:27 in the video Thomas shows a wildlife photographer whose animals look much like everyone else's — the edge comes from darkening the frames in post and applying the currently fashionable teal cast, which makes viewers feel they are seeing something fresh. Thomas's own frame follows the same logic (at 6:49 in the video): under a vivid blue sea and sky, several shirtless men in colorful swim trunks, with an inflatable boat and beach in front enriching the palette, all held in an extreme crop. Icy water turning teal-blue gives you blue-versus-white color blocks (at 7:09 in the video); and at 7:20 in the video a poplar in autumn — its orange foliage set against the blue of the water for a warm-cool collision that pulls the eye straight in.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v08","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"04 兴趣点三 影调层次","xe":"04 Point of Interest No.3: Tonal Layers"},{"t":"p","x":"极简手法在黑白照片里也经常使用，只是强调的对象换成了影调（视频 7:32 处）。Michael Kenna 的照片是很好的范例：很多都是后面一片白、前面一棵深黑色的树木；或者最前面最深、往后依次变浅，形成清晰的层次影调。但注意 Kenna 的照片并不只有影调——它们同样有前面说的几何结构、重复的构图，以及明暗、虚实的变化。","xe":"The minimalist approach also thrives in black and white, where the emphasis shifts to tonality (at 7:32 in the video). Michael Kenna's photographs are a fine model: in many of them a deep black tree stands against a field of white, or the foreground is darkest and each layer behind grows lighter, building a clear tonal hierarchy. Note that Kenna is never only about tone — his frames also carry the geometric structures and repetition described above, along with shifts in brightness and sharpness.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v09","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"很多朋友喜欢拍长曝光的水面或雾气，Thomas 提醒（视频 8:11 处）：这类照片一定要让前面有一个压得住的景物——沙滩的纹理、一块纹理奇特的岩石，或者像 George Digalakis 这样经常安排鸟类、奇形怪状的树在前景，后期再做影调处理，看起来就非常特别。视频 8:29 处这张作品的吸引力，并不在于它是一张简洁的照片，而在于树本身的纹理、水面的纹理足够有意思，最后再把天空水面做成平静的状态，起到对比和衬托的作用。雪景同理：把雪面的杂物、天空的杂物全部去掉，把人和地面压黑成一种剪影的状态，影调对比就非常突出（视频 9:09 处）。这种方法在彩色的单色调照片里也常用——一座侧面受光的雪山，把旁边压黑即可（视频 9:25 处）。","xe":"Many photographers love long-exposure water and fog, and Thomas offers a caution (at 8:11 in the video): these frames need something in front that can hold the picture down — the texture of sand, a strangely eroded rock, or, as George Digalakis often arranges, birds and gnarled trees in the foreground, finished with tonal work in post. The result looks genuinely distinctive. The pull of the photograph at 8:29 in the video is not that it is spare, but that the textures of the tree and the water are fascinating in themselves, with sky and water smoothed into calm to supply contrast and support. Snow scenes work the same way: clear the clutter off the snow and out of the sky, crush people and ground into silhouette, and the tonal contrast becomes dramatic (at 9:09 in the video). The method transfers to monochrome color photos too — a snow mountain lit from one side, everything beside it darkened (at 9:25 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v10","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"05 兴趣点四 主体与瞬间","xe":"05 Point of Interest No.4: Subject and Moment"},{"t":"p","x":"最后一类：如果你的主体特别有意思、特别出色，或者抓到了一个非常独特的决定性瞬间，那么直接用极简的方法去表现它，完全没有问题（视频 9:45 处）。比如视频 10:01 处那张照片，画面非常干净，一个人正好从几何结构中走过，就是一张不错的极简风格照片；另一张则是先寻找画面中的色彩与几何结构——大方块小方块、暖色与瓷砖颜色的对比——再等一棵树和它的影子进入位置（视频 10:22 处）。","xe":"The final category: if your subject is genuinely compelling, or you have caught a truly unique decisive moment, then expressing it through minimalist means outright is perfectly legitimate (at 9:45 in the video). The photograph at 10:01 in the video is a clean frame with one person walking through a geometric structure — instantly a fine minimalist image. Another works by seeking out the colors and geometry first — big blocks and small blocks, warm tones against the color of tile — then waiting for a tree and its shadow to enter position (at 10:22 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v11","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"建筑局部也是极简摄影的常客：电视塔这类奇形怪状的建筑、有设计感的现代建筑，常常取它的一个局部来拍（视频 10:52 处）。傅拥军老师的西湖照片其实也算一种极简风格（视频 11:05 处）：画面里就是一棵树，但它有一个非常好的主题——通过这棵树展示一年四季的变化、形形色色的人和他们的人生状态，用非常极简的构图表达很深刻的含义，这正是极简摄影非常强的地方。","xe":"Details of buildings are minimalist staples: television towers and other eccentric structures, and contemporary architecture with strong design, are very often photographed in close crop (at 10:52 in the video). Fu Yongjun's West Lake pictures count as minimalist too (at 11:05 in the video): the frame holds a single tree, but it carries a superb theme — through that one tree he shows the turn of the four seasons and the enormous variety of people passing through their lives. A severely simple composition carrying deep meaning is exactly where minimalist photography is at its most powerful.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v12","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"Thomas 用自己的作品做了示范（视频 11:43 处）：想突出沙漠中的信号塔，就构一个非常简洁的构图把它突出来，画面极其简洁、直入核心的主题。视频 11:56 处这张则等到了一个绝的瞬间——一只白鹭正好飞到月亮前面，这样的照片不需要很多层次，把白鹭和月亮放到那里，就已经是很棒的作品。还有海鸥追逐渔船、洒满波光的海面（视频 12:12 处）——要么等一个独特的瞬间，要么找到一个好主题；哪怕海面非常平淡，用小光圈先把星芒效果拍出来，也是很有意思的画面（视频 12:27 处）。雪地里找到一栋有特色的房子，用灯前的线条做骨架，最后拍雪与天，不需要任何修饰，就像一张肖像一样的极简照片（视频 12:33 处）。","xe":"Thomas demonstrates with his own work (at 11:43 in the video): to spotlight a signal tower in the desert, he built a severely spare composition around it — minimal frame, straight to the core subject. The photograph at 11:56 in the video waits for a stunning moment — an egret flying right across the moon — and needs no wealth of layers: place egret and moon together and the picture already works. Gulls chasing a fishing boat over a sea sparkling with light (at 12:12 in the video) comes down to either a unique moment or a strong theme; even a bland sea becomes interesting when you stop down to a small aperture and capture starbursts first (at 12:27 in the video). And in a snowfield, finding a characterful house, using the lines before its lamp as the skeleton, then photographing nothing but snow and sky, yields a minimalist portrait of a building that needs no embellishment at all (at 12:33 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v13","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v14","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"quote","x":"1. 极简的核心不是寻找简单画面，而是先找到核心兴趣点，再做减法；2. 四类常见兴趣点：几何结构、色彩搭配、影调层次、出色的主体与决定性瞬间，好作品常是多种兴趣点的组合；3. 色彩搭配优先考虑冷暖对比与大色块中的异色点缀，影调层次可用压暗背景、剪影和长曝光平静水面来营造；4. 观察力加极简的构图力，找到决定性的兴趣点或等到决定性瞬间，画面简单才有意义。","xe":"1. The core of minimalism is not hunting simple scenes; it is finding the point of interest first and subtracting second. 2. Four common points of interest — geometry, color pairings, tonal layers, and strong subjects with decisive moments — and good work usually combines several at once. 3. For color, favor warm-cool contrast and an off-color accent inside a large field; for tone, darken backgrounds, use silhouettes, and calm water with long exposures. 4. Observation plus minimalist composition — land the decisive point of interest or wait for the decisive moment — is what makes simplicity meaningful.","b":false},{"t":"h","x":"高清视频：","xe":"HD video:"},{"t":"p","x":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BY411N7kK","b":false,"xe":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BY411N7kK"},{"t":"h","x":"点此查看其他400篇摄影教程目录","xe":"Click here to browse the directory of 400 other photography tutorials"},{"t":"h","x":"PPT","xe":"PPT"},{"t":"img","f":"img-02","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-03","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-04","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-05","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-06","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-07","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-08","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-09","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-10","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-11","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-12","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-13","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-14","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-15","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-16","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-17","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-18","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-19","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-20","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-21","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-22","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-23","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-24","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-25","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-26","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-27","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-28","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-29","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-30","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-31","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-32","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-33","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-34","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-35","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-36","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-37","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-38","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-39","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-40","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-41","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-42","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-43","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-44","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-45","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-46","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-47","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-48","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-49","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-50","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-51","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-52","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-53","w":1080,"h":608}],"titleEn":"Is Minimalist Photography Just Simple Composition? 99% Get It Wrong"}