{"id":59,"date":"2005-10-09T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:45","slug":"toronto-zoo-and-negative-space-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Zoo and Negative space challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am ashamed to say I haven’t been to Toronto’s zoo for many a year. It really is a fantastic zoo you can easily spend the whole day and not see everything, you can almost wear out a pair of shoes it covers so many acres. Its located 30 minutes by freeway from Younge and Bloor. I guess it needed to locate so far from downtown Toronto to be able to afford the land.<\/p>\n

Anyway I jumped at a chance to join the TPMG photographic club on a Toronto Zoo photography event.<\/p>\n

The challenge this week:<\/p>\n

We were all taught to ‘fill the frame’ when it came to composition, how about we break that rule in a creative manner in this week’s challenge entitled ‘The Negative Space Challenge’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your mission this weekend is to use negative space within your composition to give emphasis on your chosen subject. Using the rule of thirds and having a keen eye to spot such images will be the real challenge as we\u2019ll be operating opposite of how our mind works. … <\/span>A photoblog site that was recently pointed out to me that uses much of this technique is called “<\/span>Round Here<\/a>“. It’s a great collection of images and I’m sure that looking through the archives will spur your creativity and hopefully will inspire you to go out and try this challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Tacay<\/span><\/p>\n


\"\"<\/a>My response:<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides the bright colors I was trying to capture the precision which each snake wraps itself around the branch, a loop of its body centered as to make a cushioned headrest. The negative space surrounding the snake helps to define the precision of this shape.<\/p>\n

The rest of the shots are here:<\/a><\/p>\n


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<\/a>Not quite the zoo but at the after event dinner I had a chance to try out an idea I have had for sometime now. This shot was captured by having Adam (TPMG organizer) stand close to the screen of a projection TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am ashamed to say I haven’t been to Toronto’s zoo for many a year. It really is a fantastic zoo you can easily spend the whole day and not see everything, you can almost wear out a pair of shoes it covers so many acres. Its located 30 minutes by freeway from Younge and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}