Positive and Negative Space

"FENCES"

This minimalistic image shows an old wooden fence in the slowly melting snow. The snow creates a lot of negative space, while the fence and bits of grass create the minimal positive space. My goal was to find something with a lot of negative space surrounding it, but would still be somewhat interesting when isolated among the negative space. I found this fence among the snow and took a picture of it from a window above the area where the fence rounds a corner.

This image uses the fence to portray leading lines, informal balance, and rule of thirds. I tried taking this picture horizontally, but portrait framing made the image have a better balance between negative and positive space, as well as contributing to the informal balance.

The image to me represents a type of decay both in the snow that makes up the negative space and the fence that makes up the positive space. While both the snow and the fence remain intact and performing their respective duties of covering the ground and surrounding an area, they are both experiencing their decay. The snow is melting and the fence is rotting. If I were to change something about this image, I would like to have gotten it in a better lighting, as I feel the lighting I took it in was neither sunny enough nor gloomy enough.