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Challenge 121: Negative Space

  • 27-11-2013 8:04pm
    #1
    eoglyn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭


    First of all congrats to Sumsar on winning the previous challenge, I think I could consider it slightly bad luck to have come second and still have the task of setting the next one. I have to admit to conceiving this when the voting was so close, I see now that there was a similarly themed titled challenge set way back in September 2010 by Mike Huntt "Minimilism/Negative Space" but we will concentrate on the second part “negative space”.
    Before I became the novice photographic enthusiast I am now I often wondered how and why many images would be framed with lots of empty space, I mean why not fill the frame with your subject? I knew the photos were better this way – but I didn’t really know why.
    I know now that the pointed use of empty spaces, with little or no information can actually contribute significantly to the drama of a scene. It can isolate the subject as interesting or worthy of further appreciation or investigation. It can help to create a sense of desolation or wonder. In a portrait it can leave the viewer asking what is the person looking at, in a landscape shot it can give an impression of scale or proportion.
    Here are a couple of my own examples:

    11089448604_1ab10e81d4_c.jpg
    hugolicious-1-2 by EoghanL, on Flickr

    11089660596_9d2e295c47_c.jpg
    skytrain-1 by EoghanL, on Flickr

    Google has a load more

    Happy Snapping!!!

    Rules:
    -Photos must be taken with this challenge in mind – therefore photos must be taken after 8.00pm 27/11/2013.
    - Closing Date is 2 weeks from now- Wednesday 11th December at 8.00 pm.
    - Photos must be taken by the person submitting them.
    - Only one photo per post- but feel free to submit as many posts as you like.
    - The next task/subject is to be chosen by the person who has the most thanks after their post at the closing date/time


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