Posted by David Peterson on 23 Dec 2006 as Composition, Tips
The third camera winner is Neil Speers, who has a great tip on composition. Congratulations Neil! - David.
Learn to use negative space. Positive space is your subject - a person, an animal, a building, an egg, etc. Negative space is everything else that shows up in the picture. Take five pictures of five different subjects - any subject is fine, just choose five different things.
BUT, concentrate on making the BACKGROUND perfect. That is, concentrate on everything except the subject itself - what is behind and around the subject has to be perfect. Once you’ve started to pay attention to the negative space, your whole composition will improve.
Neil Speers
9 Responses
Hernan
December 28th, 2006 at 11:55 am
1This is a really useful tip! It’s a lot better than cleaning up the background afterwards!
Joy
December 29th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
2Thank you for sharing about negative space. My next shots will focus on this technique.
Congrats !!! PhotoJoy
Elise Mitton
December 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
3Yep, will be trying this one with the new camera too !! Cheers Neil from Elise in Oz.
Glenn Kasner
December 30th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
4You’re so right! Mant brilliant pictures are spoiled by poor “negative space”. A little time spent composing the picture to minimise this is wel worth it
Robyn
December 31st, 2006 at 4:46 pm
5Neil, such a simple thing that I do on a regular basis. Thought everyone did it. Congrats for having the fore thought to submit it.
Rob
Gary Schneider
January 1st, 2007 at 7:13 am
6Great Composition Tip!
Ray Mogarte
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:15 pm
7Definitely one the best tip.
Ed V
January 26th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
8Ssimply put. As we say in this neck of the woods(Newfoundland)..WICKED..
EFV
Lisa
October 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
9i’m only starting to learn all the tricks to great photo’s. i totally agree with you..the negative space in a photo, sometimes, tells you a lot more.
the rule of 3’s
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