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Beautiful conjunction of the crescent moon and venus. Really clear evening last night. I was really pleased to catch the “earthshine” on the moon with a 4 second exposure at f/5.6 and ISO 640. Amazed at the detail on the moon’s surface.
Really nice photo!
I’m not horsing around on this challenge — a couple of my images from my photo archive.
January 2021 on a search for snowy owls — instead a group of horses on a snowy horizon. Light would have been better later in the day.
Fuji XT-4 /F 8/ ISO 200/ SS@ 1/320
And a second image from an April 2024 drive to look at the wild horse west of Sundre.
Fuji XT-5. F 5.6/ ISO 200/ SS@A/125
Handheld 150mm telephoto.
Taken with iPhone, converted to black and white, then used GIMP to “burn” the old truck to brig it out more, then the “smudge” tool to completely smudge the background. I like the resulting sinister look with the very dark smudged negative space. Fun experiment.
Here’s the original photo for reference.
Wow what a difference. Looks like a toy car close-up.
Another experiment with using the smudge tool in GIMP to somewhat blur the background in an attempt to better bring out the stump. ISO 100, f/6.3, 1/320.
short track speed skating ISO 3200 f5.3 1/1000 185mm
Great composition Della. Love the diagonal.
Grey heron about 10 feet away from me in St. James’s Park by Buckingham Palace. My Seek app identified it as a great blue heron, but that seemed unlikely when I looked at the range so I investigated further. Touristy iPhone shot, which turned out to be an example of using negative space. Dozens of tame birds and squirrels in the park because of people feeding them (against the rules). We didn’t see any of the resident pelicans, which have been a fixture there since 1664.
Beautiful definition against a dark background. I love the subtle background detail.
Photography, perfect weather and kayaking on Sylvan Lake last fall, gave me the opportunity to capture floating feathers. There is just something serene about a feather in negative space. This was with my 300 lens, F8, 1/2500 at ISO 800.
Beautiful image, great detail. Love the subtle leading line.
Great skill Debbie. Did you use a sand bag on the gunnel as a solid base with remote delayed shutter release? Otherwise just no coffee you say?
I think this is a good example of negative space in street photography.
Good street photography Diana!
Your timing was so good! The angle of his lead leg matches the line separating the two tones of yellow/ orange plus his upper body is more or less straight up matching the other hue separating line on the wall. Looks great.
Another negative space subject, converted to black & white.
I came across this image of a coyote I took a few years ago. A really cool costomer lying in the snow while we walked by with our little dog. I thought this would be another good example of negative space.
I could not resist adding a third image as a follow-up on the previous image. I took this image a bit earlier during a snowy period. I really like the mood the negative space of this image conveys. It was far away and I had to enhance the image with Topaz Gigapixel. I am very please how it turned out.
Here is another rendition with distractions removed.
Here the negative space gives more information about the environment the coyote is moving through. In my mind it still qualifies as negative space. By definition negative space is supposed to draw attention to or enhance the subject.
I was whale watching last month on the Mexican Pacific Coast in Punta Mita. I thought that this shot of a Humpback Whale breaching as a good example of negative space. I cropped it to 16×9 to put the whale at the intersection point and to put in more negative space.
f/4.0, 1/2500 sec, ISO 100, spot metering.
Here’s a tighter crop. Not sure which one I like better.
Photo from my archive. I took this photo of a Little Blue Heron at Lake Parker in Florida. The pond was covered with Duck Weed and it provided the green background.
Aperture Priority, f/2.8, 1/400 sec, 510 mm zoom, ISO 200
Heritage Park Oil Derrick – I took this shot several years ago but thought it had some negative space aspects in the clouds surrounding the oil derrick. Shot with a Canon Rebel SL1.
Another iPhone shot from London. We went to a free concert at the Royal Academy of Music – my daughter books it in advance and goes every other Friday because she’s off work – and then wandered around the building afterwards. This jazz group was rehearsing in an empty auditorium and I thought it made a dramatic image. Not sure why it’s smoky!
A night shot at the Liu Sanjie Yangshuo show
f/5.2, 1/30, iso100
Kayaking in the sea of Cortez
f/10, 1/200, iso100
not negative space just some pictures I took at the sandstone bluffs in Panarama overlooking the golf course.
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The negative space of the dull blue sky highlights the sorrow on the face of statue of the Canada’s Grieving Mother at Vimy Memorial. Taken at f/6.4, 1/900 sec, ISO 100
Side lighting on a carved wooden raven with the light coming from a lamp.
f5.6 @1/25 sec, iso 2000, 400mm. Lots of processing and cropping in Luminar.
an archive negative space shit
ops! “shot”, of course but one may in fact consider the photo as the latter
another archive photo