the bars and the child seem to me, to be the subject, making them the positive space. the negative space, would then be the trees and the person to the right. the neg. space its self doesn't seem to interesting, however the photo as a whole is very nice. You have gotten the lighting and the focus right. you have taken the shot from the childs level, and it is overall a good photo. good luck in the challenge. ~hbunch7187~
I think this would have more impact if the kid was frowning/crying, and maybe if there was less DOF so there would be more emphasis on the foreground bars and face. I had considered trying to submit a photo of an empty prison cell; this is the only photo I see which alludes to that interpretation...
I don't see ANY negative space here. Otherwise, it is an uninteresting shot. It IS in focus, but the cropping should have dealt with the adult on the right. 2 Jak
i'm sorry, in my opinion, this does not depict negative space, there's too much going on throughout the picture. as for the photo itself, i love the shot, the angle of the baseball cap on his head is perfect, and so is the grin. i would probably crop the right side a bit to remove the person that is partially visible there. -- gr8photos.