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THE SHOTS
NEGATIVE SPACE
ere will be times when you’re in the process of
creating images that something in your pictures
seems to be o. It doesn’t make sense: you’ve
followed all the written rules of photography
and taken advice from creative friends and
fellow photographers on lighting, composition of
your images, endless lens choices, depth of eld
selections, shutter speed combinations, and more.
Yet something just seems to be missing from your
pictures. ey’re just not having the impact you’re
hoping to achieve.
In most of my 25-plus years of creating imagery, I’ve
learned that there’s an unwritten aesthetic rule to
making your photograp ...