Firstly flagged my favourite images and narrowed it down from 73 to 15 images.

I then went through my flagged images and edited my favourite ones from that selection.

In this image it is of a snake covering plastic. The snake represents nature and wildlife while the plastic and hand represent humans doing damage to the world due to plastic pollution. For this image I turned highlights and whites and turned down shadows and blacks as the original picture looked dull with no vibrancy and colour, (which could have worked well for the topic) but I decided to make it lighter and more vibrant. I also turned up the texture and clarity slightly so you could see the shapes and patterns properly and more clearly. this also contributed to the pop of colour in the image.

This image is of a snake wrapped around a plastic bottle. I think this image shows Anthropocene and typography as it represents life (the snake) and how it is wrapped around a plastic bottle which shows how plastic is polluting the world and the human hand to symbolise its humans doing it. I chose to put the image in black and white as I didn’t originally like the colour contrast of the snake, hand and bottle all mixed together and I preferred the way it looked in black and white. I turned the contrast and clarity up to get sharper point in the photo and really define all the features in this image.

This image is of a dog looking at treats through a plastic bag. I took this image of the dog looking into the treat bag to show that humans look after these animals and they rely on humans for food and care. I think this relates to the Anthropocene topic indirectly because it shows the care for animals instead of if they had improper care, were stray, being hunted or if their environment was destroyed. For this image I added an effect where the outside of the image is highlighted and glowing. I also turned the highlights down a lot and turned the black tone up to make the image darker so the effect stands out more.

This image goes with the other dog image where this time the dog isn’t looking at the plastic bag and is looking into the camera. I made this image black and white because I like the way the dog is smiling into the camera, the black and white contrasts with this and I like how it came out.