The Sunday Challenge ... Negative Space

So this week's challenge was Negative Space: with the emphasis on the color blue, but not sky.

I must admit I struggled with it for a while, if only because I found so few settings that included blue (but not sky) without resorting to other perhaps equally obvious choices such as denim or blue doors.

In the end I decided to create a scene where the background could be inverted so as to create negative space using a negative image. In this case that background is a gravel border that goes around our front lawn. I simply sat Mr Smiley in place, took the photo and then did some processing. That involved creating a duplicate layer which I then turned into a negative image and sat this over the original image before erasing the 'negative' Mr Smiley to reveal his more positive alter-ego.

Some subtle tweaking of levels followed before I finished it off with a foggy dark border.

So, job done, here you have Mr Smiley remaining positive in negative surroundings!