Assignment: "Negative Space"

[Saralonde]

UPDATE: This assignment is over - the new one has been launched and the topic is COLD

I hope you all have been thinking about negative space lately and how you can use it in your photographs. If you need a little help understanding the concept, make sure you check out these sites:

Wikipedia definition
Negative Spaces & Positive Spaces in Digital Photography
Negative Space
Flickr (try checking out these images and see if you can tell which ones show the concept of negative space)

We've been blanketed in snow here for the past 3 weeks, so I tried to use it for this assignment.



I'm interested to see what everyone came up with!

As always, the rules...Please note the change in closing time.

1. Your image you submit should be taken between the 21 of January and the 4th of February. Each week as an assignment closes on the Wednesday, it will be AUTOMATICALLY deemed *CLOSED* after 8am GMT ( 3am EST) and any posts after that time will not be eligible for the assignment competition.

2. Your post must include "Assignment: Negative Space" (to show your permission to count it for the contest) and the date the picture was taken (to show that it is a valid entry).

3. EXIF data should be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, date taken, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) in the text of your message.

4. Only one entry per member (if you can't restrain yourself until the end of the first week you can post two or three separate pictures but your entry should be in a separate post and the only marked with the text above).

5. Remember the cross-site image size limit (800px on the longest side).

6. If the image does not exist in post at the end of the contest, it is disqualified. If you modify anything on flickr and re-save the image then the link is broken and the message needs edited to link the picture again before it will be included in the contest.
For everyone, please do not repeat other people's photos by quoting them until the contest is over. If you want to comment on or discuss an entry you can use a link to it (or just delete the picture from the quoted text).

7. If you are looking for the winners of the mini-contest, please check the front page of the DPS blog Saturday late afternoon (EST).

After two weeks of technical and compositional challenges, we'll try a simple subject to test your creativity: Cold. Those of us in the northern hemisphere have been feeling it and those of you sweating in the southern hemisphere may appreciate a blast of air conditioning now and again. I'd really like to see how you can interpret this subject. Try to really get the feeling of cold across.

[GwenieThePooh]

I like this assignment. I normally crop the negative space on my pictures and now I like how it becomes part of an art. I might still change this picture but for now this is my entry.



EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 80 mm
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
Flash: No Flash
ISO: 1600
File Size: 171 kB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 2800
Image Height: 1903
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
X-Resolution: 96 dpi
Y-Resolution: 96 dpi
Software: picnik.com
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:01:29 04:37:26
YCbCr Positioning: Centered
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2009:01:29 04:37:26
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:01:29 04:37:26

[WildRain]

You Are Here



Negative Space Assignment: Olympus FE-310, iso640, f/3.3 @ 1/12s, -2.00ev, 6.2 focal length, Flash did not fire. Dtd: Janurary 22, 2009
Early morning light refraction from a DVD, microwaved for less than 10s until the recording layer "shorts". Pretty cool if you do this in the dark (smile). Thanks DPS, this assignment has lead to other material.




"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman quotes (American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist. 1900-1981)

[brainwashercornelius]

Assignment: Negative Space

This is my 2nd post in the assignments section, I call this one "the sky with an accent" hope you like it



Date Taken: 1/25/2009
Exposure: 1/1000"
F number: F8
ISO: 200
Metering: Center weighted
Focal Length: 55mm

[Hayward Taylor]

Sunrise - taken through my living room window - dirty window appears like noise on right side



Jan 26-2009
Panasonic DMC-LZ8 p&s
Manual
1/125
f/5.6
iso 100
processed in Topaz

[NicoleB]

I doubt it will stop raining until February, so I go for an inside shot



Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.4
Aperture: f/3.8
Focal Length: 29 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Flash: No Flash

Taken: January 28, 2009

[Chip]

This is a piece of public art in downtown Tampa. The artist is John Henry. It's 33 feet tall, and the intersection seen in this pic is about 25 feet up. This shot was taken from about 2 feet off the ground by resting the camera on "Big Max" itself.

Here's a link to a picutre of the full sculpture and a quick blurb about it.

Assignment: Negative Space
Taken on January 22, 2009



Exposure: 10
Aperture: f/0.0
Focal Length: 0 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Manual
Date and Time (Original): 2009:01:22 20:22:40
(taken with a non-metering, 28mm prime; aperture was f11)

[lisa]

[mjconn]

Planning the assignment photo.



January 26, 2009 at 1.45pm EST
Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 38 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: +1 EV
Flash: Auto, Fired. SB-600 off-camera

[leafyfingers]

BLUE BUDDHA


Camera: Canon A630
Date: 1/27/2009
Exposure: 0.017 sec.
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal length: 7.3mm
Flash: flash fired, auto
It SAYS the ISO is 6 (is that possible???)
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