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
No related posts.
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
RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI
Leave a reply
Search
Ask David!
Do YOU have a question about photography? Ask David!
Subscribe
Tags
action photography
Aperture
Balance
blurry photos
Composition
Critique
cropping
depth of field
digital photo storage
distractions
EXIF
Exposure
fill flash
fish eye lens
Flash
flickr
focal length
Image Editing
image stablilzation
ISO
landscape
lens
Light
lighting
manual focus
megapixel
mm
Night
outside
photo printing
photo quality
photo sharing
photoshop
portrait
resizing
rule of thirds
shutter speed
sports photography
sunset
telephoto
tripod
wide angle lens
wildlife photography
wow photo
zoom lens
Links
Meta
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
© 2010 Digital Photo Secrets All Rights Reserved. | Contact Us
No part of this page may be reproduced without express written instructions by David Peterson.