Positive and Negative Space

Image 1

 

The original resource is a magazine cover from vogue. A very retro like photography. I was attracted  by the use of color of the photo. The women's face on a wall is presented in light color, and as a construct, the passengers standing and passed by are in dark color. This is very interesting. So I choose this image for my positive and negative space. I was interested to see what will happen. 

  

First the woman on left is colored with black. Details are lost. We can now see she is in all black. However we can still tell that this is black shape may use to be a human figure. 

       

Then the male on right is colored with black paint. but we can still tell that this is a human figure. As in the original image, he also contains many black portion. Hence this move didn't create a lot of differences. However with the two human figure colored with black paint, we can observe that woman's face on wall became more outstanding. Her eyes are every outstanding. Because at first we normally don't pay much attention to the black shape in front of the colored part. 

If we painted the woman's face with black. We observed that a mass of black appeared. Again, detail are lost. And it may be a harm for images like magazine cover, as such image always need many detail to attract attention.  

However I love the third piece especially, with the two human figures painted with black, and the lady face on the wall become super outstanding. In this version, probably the text 'VOGUE' will looks more fit in white color.

Now the background is removed with replacement of white paint. A pure positive & negative space image is created. Bascially all the details on the image is removed. By looking at this version alone, we probably can't figure out what is the image about.

The presence of VOGUE text is important as it indicate the meaning and function of the image as a magazine cover.

Image 2

 

The second image is 2 chairs placing above water. And there is a shirt hanged on the brown chair. By looking at the image, looking at the water, looking at the land behind, I felt peaceful; probably it is because there is no human presentation on this image. Sometimes zero human presentation indeed gives me a quite and peaceful feeling.

 

Firstly I removed the 2 chair. So now the chair's space is placed with white color

Then I came to my 3rd image!

 

The original image - My market day. A very fashion image, colorful and complext

 

Rabbit hat turn to black

 One lady turn to black

 Two lady turn to black

 

All the human features inside the image turn to black

 

The result

And I think if you try to do positive and negative space with a fashion image, then I think it will look very funny. 

Cause in a fashion image you will probably have a lot of exaggerate details, and once the importance details are lost, the picture lose its meaning.