This week's Saturday Self-Challenge was to compose a square image. It happens to be also my plan for the latest The Art of Photography assignment by Ted Forbes. There the actual assignment is to take a photo sequence made out of multiple images.

Photo sequence assignment by Ted Forbes: youtu.be/xnC8SGWlE1w

The idea of photo sequence is to tell a short story with few images in a similar way as on cartoons or comic strips. But it can be also sort of a collage. The sequence can tell a chronological story, or the images can illustrate some concept from different angles.

When I watched the assignment video by Ted Forbes, I almost immediately though I would like to make a square composition. The idea was to tell a circular story, which does not have beginning or end.

So, here's my plan what I try to shoot. I'm a lousy drawer, but on notes you can try to figure out the details of this idea. I'm planning to use my Lumix camera remotely controlled with the mobile phone. The inspiration for this I got when I was browsing through my old pictures and saw an image where I'm inflating a balloon:



And the whole idea is based on sort of a photography joke and word play with the concept of negative space. In photography negative space means "the space that surrounds the main element of interest". Although in my plan the negative space actually fills the middle of the collage and composition.

More about negative space in photography here: photographylife.com/negative-space-in-photography

UPDATE: And here's the final image.