I wanted to experiment and create an image that looked more like Mandy’s because in my shoot I used a white background and I didn’t have enough micro plastics.

I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop to cut out each piece. After I had selected one, I Feathered them by 2-5 depending on the shape. Next I created a blank black canvas and dragged all the layers across. I worked out where to place them, and duplicated the layers to fill in gaps. I didn’t want the duplicates to be obvious so I changed the Hue/Saturation of some.

Overall I like how this turned out, I think it looks like Barker’s work even though I used photoshop to create it. I think I used the same variety of colours and shapes as her, using large and small pieces. The only difference is that her work is more compact. I could change this by photographing more different pieces of plastic, or duplicating more (however I didn’t want to use too many duplicates).

Further Experimentation on Photoshop:

I wanted to edit my images further to create photos that clearly show pollution and waste affecting the marine life and oceans.

For this image I took my cut outs from my Barker edit, and organised them to look like the whales tail.