Lesson 56. Simplify
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” The same applies beautifully to the photograph. Elegance is about simplicity, about the removal of everything unnecessary to the telling of the story or the expression of emotion. Pulling everything extraneous from the frame, or forbidding it to go there in the first place, allows the necessary elements to play their strongest.
Fuji XE-1, 14mm, 240 seconds @ f/11, ISO 250Twilight over the sea in Liguria, Italy, is reduced to its simplest elements with careful composition ...
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