This photo was taken in London and i believe that it represents Anthropocene well as you see how humans have impacted the structure of the River Themes which would have once been Grass and land has now been changes into a concrete jungle, filled with office complexes and apartments.

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I took around 40 images of plastic bottle caps organised in various patterns on top of a piece of black card in the studio, with the intent to edit them to balance out most of the colours, and cut them in photoshop to create a larger piece with them in Barker’s style. Most of these images weren’t that interesting, nor did they have the best lighting until they were edited.

With these 8 images, I would be able to cut out each one in photoshop and mix them together in different patterns and shapes to create an effective piece that I could use for a final piece at the end of the project.

It didn’t really matter about the actual composition for these images as most of the work would come from editing – all I needed to make sure is that the colours of the bottlecaps were somewhat vibrant and interesting.

I used Light room classic to edit this image, i edited it to make the colours of the cars more vibrant, to make them standout against the black background.

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EDIT ONE:

I imported this picture into photoshop of a plastic diet coke next to a can of diet coke, in Lightroom classic I did basic editing of lighting and colour changes.

I created a background copy so I would have an extra layer if something went wrong. I used the ‘Elliptical Marquee Tool’ and drew a circle in the middle of the image. In that circle I blurred the image with the radical blur tool.

I now used the background layer and transformed it, I turned it the opposite way of the original image. While doing so I decreased the opacity to 35% which therefore created this shadow effect to the image. Furthermore it enhanced the blur in the middle within the circle.

Using the background layer I began to use the ‘Rectangular Marquee Tool’ and selected the top of the plastic bottle, the bottom of the plastic bottle and the side of the can and blurred it. For this I used the ‘motion blur’ to create a more distorted look to the picture.

EDIT TWO:

I imported this image from Lightroom. When I imported the image I created a background copy. When I created the background copy I flipped the image and reduced the opacity. I did very minimal further editing due to this image already being full with object and I didn’t want to create this image to be over chaotic.

When putting another layer with low opacity over the original image the colours of the objects started to fade and become muted. Therefore I increased the hue and the saturation to redefine the colours and created them for visible to the eye, especially these colours since they are already bright and vivid.

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I had used the ‘Rectangular Marquee tool’ to select the bottom half of my image and then transformed it for the cans to face the opposite direction. Then I used the ‘Elliptical Marquee tool’ in the middle and blurred it with the ‘Motion blur’. This is so when the diet coke images are on either side of the highlighter image there is a connection between the two.

I started to used the ‘Rectangular Marquee tool’ to pick random parts outside the image and change them to black and white. This is so it could have more depth to the image.

This image is one i took and edited myself which was been inspired by Mandy Barker, and her use of things she finds on beaches which are destroying our world. I was inspired by her work due to the sharpness of colours which are shown in her photography and

I took these photos at La Collete

Basic Edits

For these images I tried to make all the colour stand out more by making the shadows darker and highlight lighter this made most of the colour more vibrant

Same image two different outcomes. One more linked with Axel Braun and one which was experimenting with the editing.

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I select the bottle caps and put them over a black background editing size and rotation as well

I repeated putting bottle caps everywhere and changed the hue and saturation to change the colours of the caps

I added some dots around and changed the vibrancy of the entire image to make it less vibrant

I tweaked the vibrancy to make it look more natural

I increased the clarity and textures of the image

I used a layer mask to get rid of parts I didn’t want

I first went through all my images and checked I had removed all the bad images and then started editing them, making sure the exposure settings and everything else were all good.

My personal favourite edits of my images: