For my subtractive piece I chose to see what the effect of removing something critical from a picture would do. I removed the cone from a photo of ice cream to see how it would change the picture and the ways people view it. In my opinion the image becomes a bit more interesting because of the strangeness but loses some of its flow. Some of the blending looks a bit weird, especially up against the persons legs.
I think if you tried to blur the area between the leg and the blended area, the picture would look a lot better. Otherwise, the edited picture does create an interesting result.
This really grabbed my attention because the typical problem with ice cream is that it falls… An interesting and humorous use of subtraction, definitely playing on a convention for a new effect.