This week, we looked on the bright side of the negative, have you heard of Negative Space?
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Topics range from portraits to macrophotography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Just as important as this is the space around the main subject.
- In photographic composition.
- The empty space that surrounds the subject or object we are photographing is called “negative space”.
- If there is too much negative space around you that you don’t pay attention to as a photographer.
- It can ruin your photography.
- However.
- By consciously and controlled negative space in your photography.
- You can even enhance the appearance of your subject.
- Enhance it.
- And bring it to the fore.
To give you an idea, we leave you some examples of great compositions in which a negative space has been used.
This week I want you to train with negative space. Choose a subject and photograph it surrounded by huge negative space. Before framing, think about the negative space you want to use: lawn, sky, carpet, wooden table, dark void, etc.
Make sure that the color of the negative space “contrasts” with the colors of the object or subject to be photographed.
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: In the description of the photo, mention the keyword? Negative challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Thanks for participating, photographer
Here I am, with my weekly update, excited about the “Negative Space” work you released this week. I have to say there were a lot of similar photos this time, not because no one copied anyone’s idea?at all, but simply because the theme itself (spaces) is suitable: there was more than one photo with a negative space consisting of sky, darkness, etc. Courtesy doesn’t beat the brave, however, there were some really cool photos as usual. Here’s a small representative selection.
I especially liked the photography of José Antonio Ruiz. Minimalism taken to its best, even in colors. Good composition, directionality and many ideas that a simple empty window surrounded by negative space pervades you.