Landscape Composition - Part 3: Negative Space

Negative space strongly enhances the drawing factor of this lone tree on a foggy background. Canon 5D3, Tamron 24-70mm F2.8, 1/60 sec, F8, ISO100 Weissbad, Switzerland So far in this series, I've talked about the weights of compositional elements and how to use their properties to balance the composition. But there is much more to keeping an image appealing and balanced, and this time I'd like to discuss another important consideration: unoccupied space around the elements, or as it's...