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I purchased these glass negatives from an estate of an old photo studio in Millville, PA. There were a couple hundred negatives, and I went through almost all of them. I picked out all of the negatives with the cat, as well as, the one of the famers bailing hay.
OK,
I got you to look at it..!
That was the easy part of the equation.
The harder part of the equation is to elicit an emotional response, to ask you to exit your comfort zone.
Less Is More..!
* The idea behind this image is to expose less information, to allow the imagination to fill in the empty space; the dark spaces on the screen..
* The object of utilizing Negative Space is to reveal a striking visual, using minimal information, but to do it in a way that asks the mind of the viewer to participate in the illusion; to create it's own dream about the information in the image.. Negative Space can help accomplish the task..
* Don't tell the entire story, let the viewer tell their own story about what they see, through the interface of their emotions...
* Let the viewer conjure their own emotions, instead of requiring the viewer to feel something specific..
* Ambiguity with a hint of Specificity in Juxtaposition.
* Let the viewer feel something for themselves, rather than dictating which emotions the viewer should experience..
* Stimulate reaction, but don't dictate the emotion.
* Keep it simple, and let the experience of simplicity be strong.
Art is a stain upon the mind... Let that stain be memorable, emotional and vibrant..
Give the participant something to feel...
scanned colour negative at 2400dpi
Unfortunately I have no information about this negative, except that I took it in the autumn of 1981. The loco on the far left is 'Clun Castle'
I'm almost ashamed to post this, but for those who haven't quite decided what negative painting is...well, this is it. I must have been practicing that when this was done years ago. Notice that all shapes are painted by painting around them...not by putting color to form the inside of the shape. This is about as negatively painted as you can get, showing that too much of any method in a painting is just that...too much!!
France. Stopped bike-ride to take photo of donkey.
After a crop to straighten window, saw the shadows were strong enough to hold up the negative space.
© Jeff R. Clow
How I "developed" this:
1) Shot a leaf with red and green highlights floating on water
2) Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software to convert the color spectrum using a "Deep Negative" preset I downloaded from the web
3) Used Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software to recover some of the details through levels adjustments
The purists probably won't like it, but I thought it blurred the distinction between photography and art.
If you have the time, I hope you'll view this at the larger size linked below:
Perfect shutter timing by the photographer, the loco looks to be an LNWR 4-4-0, photographed in the 1910s or 1920s. The negative has 'Ptarmigan' written on the edge, a George Vth class 4-4-0 carried that name and number 1681. On a 4-track main line, I'm not sure exactly where, there is a smudged mark on the negative, could be Rugby.
Day 258 - I'm still in a bit of a photo funk. 365 days is a long time! Hats off to those who do it year after year!
Painted today and as you can see it fucked the place up haha painted with Bet and technically Apose haha shouts to Bomr & Toe!
April 2, 2018
Snow falling straight down misses the center part of the table. The negative space takes on the two dimensional form of the cross section of the closed sun umbrella above. ...another snow shadow.
7DWF - Crazy Tuesday - Negative Space
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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The maw of the storm that just rolled through Kalamazoo. Heids and I were scurrying out to pick some raspberries and I took a few extra moments to observe the sky.
Day 56 - "Negative space". I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at all worried about coming out in a heinous rash with the $2 shop face paint.
" I learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures.."
HYFR - Drake
Strobist Info:
Camera Settings - Nikon D3s with Nikkor 85mm f/1.4g lens, Aperture f/8, Shutter Speed 125, ISO 100
Main Light - AlienBee 1600 at 1/8 power shot through 47 inch octobox with grid camera left
Strobes triggered remotely using PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter and FlextTT5