My son, walking through an interactive sculpture outside the Blanton Museum, Austin, Tx.
I took a different approach on negative space after looking it up in wikipedia. I'm sure it won't score well. But I've given up on pleasing everyone. I just decided to do what I like.
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Dunno why I am jsut now seeing this but I would've ten'd it. Superb darks and lights and the subject is extremely interesting and thought provocative. I really like this a lot.
I'll add a bit to my in challenge comment. really this is a great photo, very interesting, unique, technically fine, definitely one of the best in the challenge. Compositionally, in terms of the challenge, a crop from one side or the other may have added a bit of tension that would help the photo. At first I thought coming in from the R would be best but Im not sure now, perhaps from the L? Anyway, I totally agree with you - do what you like... it's fantastic.
this would have worked better for me if you'd cropped out the stuff on the R side of the picture. instead of a person with very interesting neg space you now have a background that completes
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Jack