# Negative space

Frame / Composition / Placement. Checked 2026-10-13.

Lots of empty space: calm, minimal, and room for text.

- Use when: Ads with copy, premium minimal brands, website heroes.
- Phrase: the product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/composition/negative-space
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/composition/negative-space.json

## Watch out

- Say what the empty part is (plain wall, sky). A frame told to be empty fills itself with props. (unverified; Not measured yet)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: the product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: the product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: the product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
The product small in the lower right, the rest of the frame plain empty wall. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Rule of thirds: https://directorchair.ai/composition/rule-of-thirds
- Grid position: https://directorchair.ai/composition/grid-position

## Source

Film craft, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.