This post is very much a follow up to the previous post. I was reading some stuff yesterday about negative images, and how they can be interesting in themselves. Now as an artist I am very much aware of how negative space is used in art, but had never thought that the same ideas could be applied to photography. So, I started to play around with some of my photos, and soon discovered that whilst negative images can be interesting not all of them have the potential to become a stand alone work of art, for that one needs something just a little different. Then it occurred to me to play around with some recently taken night shots (which can be seen here), where I was concentrating solely on light.
Now, I am no Photoshop expert, but I know how to do what I need to do, and am also a great one to experiment. It was not long that I discovered that my night shots, with all of their movement and busyness were ideal subjects for negative imagery. Having tried a few experiments with contrast, vibrance and saturation etc. it became obvious that such images could indeed become stand alone works of photographic art. Here are five of the previous post’s images that I have tinkered with.
Now the above images are only quickly executed conversions, an experiment, if you will, to see if there would be any potential here. Having now played around with these images and proving that there is some interest there I can see the potential for spending much more time with them and pushing them much further into the realms of art.
