Visual Interest: Vignette Part 3
The studies continue! Part 2 focused on negative space of shadow being shaped combining with positive space of light to form an image. This next type of vignette is the opposite of the Shadow Carve Vignette shown in Part 2. This is the Light Carve Vignette.
The light in the image is the background and the shadow forms the image:
As used by Struzan below on the woman in the sky. The light is yellow base, and the show forms on top to shape her. The light of her face vignettes into the sky:
A modern example: