{"id":295,"date":"2025-02-27T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:37:45","slug":"negative-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/negative-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Negative-Space-Photo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A lantern attached to the wall, glowing in the dark.\" class=\"wp-image-296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Negative-Space-Photo-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Negative-Space-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Negative-Space-Photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Negative-Space-Photo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">50mm f\/4 1\/100 ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">Negative space means leaving a blank area surrounding the main area of focus to give the viewer a place to <br>&#8220;rest.&#8221; Negative space is important because it also tells the viewer where to pay attention to, as there is only emphasis to a certain part of an image. For this negative space photo, I wanted for night time so that I could get a photo of a lantern shining in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">Like always, I edited this image in Adobe Photoshop, because the light from the lantern traveled a bit too far, and I wanted the surroundings of this lantern to be dark. Also, the shadow seemed too intense, so I had to make the shadow lighter. I did this by applying the screen blend mode to lighten the shadows, while darkening the surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negative space means leaving a blank area surrounding the main area of focus to give the viewer a place to &#8220;rest.&#8221; Negative space is important because it also tells the viewer where to pay attention to, as there is only emphasis to a certain part of an image. For this negative space photo, I wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}