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09/26/2012 01:03:10 AM · #1

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09/26/2012 03:49:38 AM · #2
Thanks a lot for the collective links. :)
09/26/2012 04:50:36 PM · #3
Can someone explain the difference between Negative Space as described here:
"use the surrounding space of your subject to create the wow of the photograph."
...and Minimalism?
09/26/2012 05:14:29 PM · #4
You bring up a good question Art. It seems 'negative space' is a misunderstood term in the case of DPC. Negative space just refers to any space around your subject. It seems the voter is expecting a very high ratio of negative space to subject.

However, per Wikipedia, the following image also utilizes the negative space to create the wow... because the negative space defines the image in a different manner. What was a goblet becomes two faces due to the space that the negative space creates.

[thumb]//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Rubin2.jpg/200px-Rubin2.jpg[/thumb]

Seems for DPC sake, you can interpret this challenge as "minimalist positive space".
09/26/2012 05:25:42 PM · #5
Originally posted by JamesDowning:

You bring up a good question Art. It seems 'negative space' is a misunderstood term in the case of DPC. Negative space just refers to any space around your subject. It seems the voter is expecting a very high ratio of negative space to subject.

However, per Wikipedia, the following image also utilizes the negative space to create the wow... because the negative space defines the image in a different manner. What was a goblet becomes two faces due to the space that the negative space creates.

Seems for DPC sake, you can interpret this challenge as "minimalist positive space".


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09/26/2012 05:26:53 PM · #6
In DPC-land, there's not going to be a lot of difference between this challenge and the just-completed "Off-Center Subject" challenge... Sadly...
09/26/2012 05:33:18 PM · #7
I don't think people agreed with my definition of negative space last time.
09/26/2012 05:41:31 PM · #8
Originally posted by chazoe:

I don't think people agreed with my definition of negative space last time.

Yeah, literalism only goes so far here ... my entry for Neon didn't do so well either
09/26/2012 05:46:28 PM · #9
Originally posted by JamesDowning:

Seems for DPC sake, you can interpret this challenge as "minimalist positive space".

That's about what I figured. Thanks.
09/26/2012 06:08:30 PM · #10
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

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Thanks, I click the wrong button half the time it seems.

Originally posted by JamesDowning:

Seems for DPC sake, you can interpret this challenge as "minimalist positive space".


I think what I meant to say was "minimal positive space"... close enough
09/30/2012 10:24:01 AM · #11
Or you could call it a free study
09/30/2012 10:39:26 AM · #12
The term as used in drawing/art refers to drawing the spaces between the objects rather than the objects themselves. Those vase/two faces pictures may illustrate the idea after you've understood it, but are misleading if you haven't (I think). A 'pure' way of reproducing negative space here would be to take a well-defined photograph of an object and then select and remove the object in pp. This would almost certainly be a transgression.

try this at home



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09/30/2012 11:18:04 AM · #13

At least this time it's Advanced editing. Everyone has their own idea of what Negative Space is, & I will be interested to see what I have to vote on. This one is a minimum positive space--it's the head of a pin that's in focus.


Message edited by author 2012-09-30 11:18:58.
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