I decided to use Photoshop to experimentally edit my images from these shoots, I decided to overlay images using the blending modes within the program as well as using the same kaleidoscopic editing technique I have developed earlier in the course, duplicating a part of the image and reflecting it, creating a repeating pattern.

I edited these images using a variety of blending modes, giving me a lot of variation in their final look and how combined the two images I overlaid became. My first image uses the Saturation blending mode, creating some very unique colours for the image underneath it. My second experiment used the Colour blending mode, which ended up giving it a softer and less vibrant appearance. My final overlay experiment used the Hard Light blending mode, saturating the colours but in a less extreme way than the first image, it also shows the image being overlaid the most clearly.

These are my second set of experiments, this time created by duplicating a part of the image and reflecting it to create these repeating patterns. The become quite abstract the more they are repeated and as they become smaller, and I find these compositions quite unique. These images remind me of some Surrealist paintings which utilise strange dreamlike imagery in their works, distorting the usual appearance of subjects, using biomorphic shapes and spontaneity.

Using photoshop, I used chromatic aberration to distort the colours of my images and make them look really unique. It is a simple process that creates very striking images.

In photography, chromatic aberration is an often unwanted effect caused by issues with lenses inside digital cameras, often created lines of unwanted colour along the edge of objects. This is an interesting phenomenon and I wanted to experiment with creating this effect manually.