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P52 Week 7: Negative Space (Feb 12 - Feb 18)
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This is great. You have found the reason to push on - it is not easy. Different weeks, different challenges. Remember it is for your personal benefit. You are not trying to win a challenge or prove anything to anyone. This is for your own personal journey and to enjoy it.
You are doing great! Keep going.
The main thing to learn from the rule of thirds is that putting your subject dead centre is more often than not boring - this is rich coming from a rangefinder shooter I know. The points where the lines intersect are guides to help placement. In landscape photography you will hear about focussing a third of the way into the image to get front to back sharpness - the rule of thirds puts a line on or about where you want to focus. It will feel weird at first but after a while you will stop thinking rule of thirds and just automatically see compositions
So think about making an image more interesting, by moving the subject away from the centre of the frame, makes the image more interesting. When capturing movement, it is usually best to capture the subject off centre moving in the direction of the centre of your frame. The rule of thirds grid is there to help with placement, it is not anchor points in the “thou shalt align” sense.
This clip from the Fablemans movie sums it up wonderfully IMHO.
Nicely done. It gives a different feel when you see it. Ben has room to breathe and changes it from a picture OF Ben to ABOUT Ben.
Great challenge! Never thought that much about negative space.
CC is always welcome to improve myself.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
I took this early Sunday morning, but just realized this is a negative space photo.
CC is welcome. Alternate crop attached.
CC is welcome. Alternate crop attached.
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@kenoh Thanks a lot for your help!
I got the idea. Not easy to focus and move on the side, or up and down.
Now on my cameras I keep the lines visible 🙂 I changed the camera focus to “Track point” .
Anyway it’s easy on objects , difficult on wildlife that moves very fast and you are lucky when you get the right shot.
I got the idea. Not easy to focus and move on the side, or up and down.
Now on my cameras I keep the lines visible 🙂 I changed the camera focus to “Track point” .
Anyway it’s easy on objects , difficult on wildlife that moves very fast and you are lucky when you get the right shot.
If it’s not a negative “space” this one, what it is?! 👍💖
One of the first things I do when I get a camera is turn on the thirds grid. It’s handy to have on and makes me think more about composition.
Zone or single point. You can use any, really, as you can always move the focus point around using the d-pad or thumb stick if your camera has one.
Yep, all bets are off when it comes to wildlife - especially birds in flight…. You get what you get and hope you can fix it later by cropping. Well that’s the technique I rely on anyway. 😊
BIF is one of the most demanding things you can expect from a camera. If it becomes your passion, you will be dropping a lot of money on bodies and long lenses. You can do it for less, but it becomes more of a spray-n-pray situation.
Today a lot of finches were flying around: love season I guess.
Does this photo count as negative space? Are the branches justified or not in a negative space photo?
P.s. Of course are justified to keep the finch up when it's not flying 🙃
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Thanks. Positive critique, encouragement, pointing out the underlying benefits of stretching – when responding to shared work it's IMO the right way.
I really like the contrast of the green and amber. Do you have one that is more square on to the wall taken at the height of the light? I think maybe a straight on angle would be a strong image
This is what keeps this little corner of the internet so close. We like to think we are not a typical ego trip community as found on more “formal” photography forums.
We have a fair share of people who have dipped in and been disrespectful but at the core there are a list of many who genuinely want to help where/if we can. The rest of the time, I are trying to learn too.