Negative Space

There’s not much negative space in this pic, but I wanted to play it up since there wasn’t much else going for the photo.

Except for her adorable grin.

Adorable.

After:

Before:

That pole was distracting me, and that’s when I knew what I needed to do with the edit.

On Instagram I have the challenge of reframing my edits to fit the square ratio. With this one, I decided to show no part of her hand. I know there are rules about cutting off body parts. I don’t normally follow rules. What do you think? With the hand or without?

Is too much of her missing from the left photo? Does the hand look like it’s been lobbed in the photo on the right?

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