![]() ![]() This is something you can do yourself, by going through magazines and seeing how some of the ad photographs are put together. And they also find that the meaning or intent of a photograph can be altered just the same way. ![]() What students find is that photographs can often be dramatically improved by some subtle adjustment, mostly because the new cropping allows the eye to move more freely through the photograph revealing more of the subject than before. As each is shown we evaluate each picture’s use of positive and negative space, and discuss alternative cropping (frames) that might change the photograph. In my Fine Art Class, I often show up to 100 images of a variety of photographer’s work taken from magazines, books and other sources. Adjusting Images For Positive and Negative Space It is not so easy with other subjects, but how you accomplish the positive space’s intersection with the frame, and how many times you do it, can provide interest and meaning to the photograph. So the photographer has shown us more than just the frog but taught us a little about its environment.īranches, of course, are easy to make intersect with our frame. Because the branches are part of the positive space and we must travel along them to get to the frog, we also get to see the relationship of the branches and the frog, texture, color, form and function. They also provide a way out of the picture and back in through another gate, so the eye will not get stuck on the frog with no place to go, but can go in and out of the picture always coming back to the frog. See how it provides the eye several gates or roadways into the picture. ![]() Notice how the positive space travels across and intersects with the frame. It has weight and mass, and plays an important role in defining your subject. Negative space is not just the absence of something. Do you see the negative space is actually shapes? These shapes have substance or mass. Notice how much easier it is to see the shapes of the negative space when the picture is upside down. The positive space is in white, the negative in black. I have masked the positive space in white in figure 1.ĭo you see that the positive space encompasses not only the frog but the branches as well? OK, what about the negative space? This is easy, it is the areas in black. If you guessed the frog, you were partially right. It is an excellent example of what we have been talking about. Let’s look at Joe McDonald’s picture of a tree frog. This article is continued from Part 1 – negative space photography. Looking at Positive and Negative Space in photo composition. ![]()
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