Negative space is one of those undesired features that purist photographers decide to keep their distance from. But is one of the most fantastic ways of composing a photograph due to its interesting nature of graphic design. Negative Space is the huge presence of low impact elements, which are usually neutral empty spaces or textures.
Negative space to actually become something interested, it needs to be contrasted with an interesting subject or element. By achieving this contrast, some sort of visual balance is achieved, hence the beauty of the correct use of negative space.
Photo by Federico AlegrÃa
Before learning about negative space, I pretty much avoided it, but after watching a couple of beautiful examples like this and this, I began to rethink about the images I was making.
The picture from above is my favorite image from my own work composed with a huge level of negative space, and for me, it works because even when there is so much space, the man walking by the shore is still getting the viewer's attention.
Negative space is not just a blank space, but a section of the frame that due to the presence of a smaller element, it becomes interesting. Negative space is just a name that emptiness has received, and it has nothing to do with a negative value or whatsoever.
Negative space could be:
For negative space to actually work you need to achieve a frame that gets balanced not by a big element but a tiny yet strong element in the frame, juxtaposed to the huge emptiness of the negative space. That is the essence and the magic of an image composed with important deals of negative space.
Photo by Sunisa Misa on Unsplash
One way of making an image more interesting is by cropping it out, leaving just the essential elements for the composition to work.
Negative space is just a small topic inside the whole universe of composition, if you are just beginning in photography and you don't know exactly where to start, well let me tell you a very good new, you need to start by composition, since it is one of the most valuable attributes any photograph should have in order to be meaningful.
If you are interested in learning more about composition, then perhaps you should take a look at this guide. Mastering composition requires practice indeed, so why not starting today folks?
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