Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love space when it serves a powerful function - which in the horse photograph it certainly does. I remember the mid sixties VW beetle ads as some of the most powerful use of white space ever. However when a photograph holds powerful subject matter which seems to suffer at the expense of the space (as in - not close enough - or the space vying for attention) then I think a crop may be in order. At the same time - shooting for 'stock' these 'spaces' can be your friend. I can imagine a double page spread where your foregrounds could allow for some wonderful placement of headline and text. But as a photograph standing on it's own - I found a few of them to have the space distracting my attention from the subject. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: > It's true, I have been known to use a lot of 'unnecessary' space: I > once did a blank full newspaper page ad for Mercedes and won a > prize for it. :-P