Negative Volume
One of the most difficult things to accomplish in photography is negative volume (Space). That’s normally the job of parallax combined with the minds interpretation of its surroundings. When you take a picture you “frame it”, thereby collapsing it into tw...
Negative volume/positive depth...
The narrow spaces are what lead the eye to left foreground to right background in the first and center foreground to center background in the second creating depth and forcing your eyes to look at all the interesting items in this neighborhood. Well done!...
It’s also
In the curvature of the road and stairway. The “around the corner effect” tricks the mind into relating the volume it perceives to calculate what the volume it will be exposed to might be. It uses the relative objects it does see and extends them. This is...
Now you have me racking my brain for photos that meet this criteria!
Great photograph. Not only because of the negative space but the stark difference between the left and right structures. One newly painted, the other one having seen better days. And the curving space in between highlights the contrast even further. And t...
Thank you.
I do more photography than painting these days, but painting was the original impetus for my photography as I used them for studies. I also like the immediacy of digital and the exercise in seeing compositions in the wild.
Not sure if I am getting it....
To start with, I would imagine having problem to even frame it. Maybe this? The jacket was intentional. ...
There is some volume
In the bedroom. My eye reads it more 2d than 3d. See if you can look at the floor in front of the bed and experience the volume, then pull back and look at the whole picture which becomes 2d. Now you should be able to toggle your mind between these two st...