I cropped this image to get rid of the brick floor to frame the image better. By making the image cropped and getting rid of most of the floor I’ve created a more interesting image as you cant see what is being looked at and it creates a unique composition.

I cropped this image so that the only thing that would be in frame would be the ladies eating their lunch. This narrows the focal point of the image down as now its just them in the image.

With this image I cropped the photo to get rid of the stone step and then added the banana peel to make it look like he was disgusted by the banana peel being on the floor.

For this image I added a peacock to the original image as the lady who is sat down eating was directly looking at the empty space where the peacock is.

For this photo I duplicated the layer and made the original background layer black and white and with the duplicated layer on top I selected the red outfit that the lady was wearing and pressed select and inverse to delete the rest of the image and leave just the red outfit. The one bit of red colour in the all black photo makes The Decisive moment of the image stand out so that its really clear what is happening in the image.

For this image I duplicated the background layer again and used the quick selection tool to select the people in the image and then used Alt if I selected too much of the image that I didn’t want to blur. Then I went to select and inverse which deleted the background, after I clicked on the duplicated layer and filter then blur and motion blur to blur the people in the image.

Her I did another motion blur image and selected the man and his child to blur in the image. This contrasts really nicely against the clear background with all the boats in the background.

Summary

The photos that were taken in St Malo were inspired by Henri-Cartier Bresson whose photography looked at “The Decisive moment” Where he world capture certain things that were about to happen like a child jumping over a puddle or someone drinking a coffee outside a café, his photos capture these unexpected moments by him waiting in anticipation for the exact right time. All of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photos are all in black and white and some have high levels of exposure to them making them brighter in some areas of the image and causing there to be a lot of shadow in other areas increasing the contrast between light and dark.

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Evaluation for edited images

All these photos are taken with the decisive moment in the image and trying to capture unexpected things. The images I took are a mix of architectural images and images with people which creates a good variety of images.

Biography

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup France and travelled around the world with his camera and became totally immersed in his environment. He was the oldest of five children and his family where wealthy, Bresson was educated in Paris and showed an early love for literature and arts which showed how creative he was as a young adult. His great grandfather had been an artist and he had an uncle who was a noted printer. This influenced his love for photography. His photography covered some of the worlds biggest events such as The Spanish Civil War and the French Uprisings in 1968.

The decisive moment

The decisive moment implies the constant flow of events, there are moments in which the arrangement of everything within the frame is perfect. These moments are spontaneous so the photographer must be ready to take the photo in the moment right away.

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Image Analysis

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photos are all about capturing unexpected moments at the perfect time and the perfect moment. The colour in Henri Cartier-Bresson photos is black and white and there is a lot of shadow. There are a lot of geometric shapes and patterns in Bresson photography which draws your eye to the image making it more interesting and aesthetic to look at. The lines in the image also help to draw your eye to the image as the geometric shapes and lines act as leading lines for the focal point. This photo has a slow shutter speed which makes the figure of the person a little blurry. The arrangement of the image creates many geometric shapes and lines which makes the image more aesthetically pleasing to look at. The lighting in this image is very bright and there is a lot of exposure in the puddle that the person is jumping into. There is also a lot of shadows in the image which contrasts against the high exposure in the puddle.

Light Pollution

For this photoshoot I took photos of the sunset above fort Regent that overlooked the town and the harbour and the image presented both natural light and artificial light. The photos were taken at sunset at about nine o clock and so the buildings are all in shadow and the sky had the sunset colours which gave a really nice contrast between light and dark. I also took photos of the lights on the runway by the airport, I captured this image through a wire fence which looked really interesting as you could see the coloured bright lights through the diamond shaped gaps in the fence.

My Favourite Images

Mandy Barker

For my Mandy Barker photos I collected plastic and bits of rope from the beach and took photos of them on an all black background, then on photoshop I used all the different photos I took and layered them on top of each other and changed the opacity of the ones in the background to make the image look fuller and to make it look like there is a lot more plastic waste in the ocean. Then I kept on layering the edits until it became a montage of edits.

My Favourite Images

Overall I think my Light Pollution photos were the strongest because they capture what light pollution is and they look the closest to the image I was trying to recreate. I think my Mandy Barker inspired photos could of been stronger by collecting a lot more objects along the beach and getting a bigger variety of images but I do think they represent Mandy Barkers images well and when they were layered up as a montage the final result looked similar to one of Mandy Barkers montage images.

This is my Mandy Barker Virtual Gallery. I chose these images because they represent her work the best and relate to the theme of Anthropocene because they relate to plastic pollution and just how much plastic there is in the oceans.

Anthropocene Light Pollution Virtual Gallery

This is my Anthropocene virtual gallery. I chose these images because they capture light pollution the best and showcase what light pollution represents. The balance between the natural light and the artificial light contrasts really well making the concept of the image balanced.

My best edited photos

These are my best photos because they capture the theme of Anthropocene the best and they showcase what her work is about. I think the contrast between the coloured plastic object and the black background makes these images very strong and makes the plastic object stand out. The colour in these images also makes these photos strong as they draw your eye into the photo.

Mandy Barker Edited Photos

Mandy Barker Photo Experimentation

To create this montage of plastic rubbish I found on the because I used many different images and layered them up to create this colourful creation of plastic. The meaning behind this is to show how much plastic there is in the oceans and that we need to be aware of just how much is ending up their. The brighter the colours of the plastic the more birds and fish will want to eat it.

Mandy Barker ~ Biography

Mandy Barker is an international award winning photographer who is British. She is mostly known for her work with marine plastics from the ocean, and has worked alongside scientists to try and bring awareness to the amount of plastic that is being used. Mandy Barkers photography consists of plastic marine debris transformed into alluring pieces of art and the photographs taken make the viewers discover an underwater world.

What inspired Mandy Barkers Photography?

The ever growing problem of plastic on the UK coastline and just how much of an issue its causing for the environment. She was inspired to use the plastic from the oceans in her photography to create a montage of images from the plastic that she collected.

How does Mandy Barkers photography relate to the theme of Anthropocene?

Mandy Barkers photography relates to the theme of Anthropocene as the use of plastic and materials found by the beach is making people aware of the problem of Plastic Pollution and is giving a solution to clear it off the beaches to turn it into something beautiful.

Image Analysis

The colours in this image are quite bright but there is also a mix of dark colours which make the lighter brighter colours stand out more and attracts your eye to the image. The texture of this image is rough and the textures are all different which makes the image look more appealing. The layout of this image also draws your eye to the photo because of the size difference in the objects that are used, this makes your eye follow the lines of the photo.

Editing experimentation

I increased the contrast on this photo to enhance the colours in the sunset and make them brighter and stand out more but by increasing the contrast in this photo it also made the buildings in the foreground of the image stand out more. I also increased the whites in the image to make the string of lights become brighter which act as leading lines as they guide your eye to the photo.

In this image I increased the highlights in the photo to make the area around the focal point of all the lights darker in shadow and all the lights in the centre of the image brighter so that the lights stand out and look stronger.

Further Experimentation – AI

For this image I added clouds to the sky in my photo and the clouds took the colour from the sunset.

With this image I added to plant pots with flowers in them and made sure to put them at the bottom of the image to make sure the plant pots created the shadow from the fence.

With this image I added a Hotel to the background of the photo to make show what could happen to the landscape over time.

I then added a Flag and a flag pole to the top of the hill, to give the image a more historical look.

I then added seagulls to the sky which contrasts against the white clouds in the sky giving more definition to the image.

After that I added a man walking dogs along the beach to complete the image. The new generated image has more old and historic buildings than the image before I generated new things on to the image.

For this image I added lots of tall buildings to the background of the photo to make the area look more built up and busy and then I added the road to the right side of the image and then put the street lamp to the side of the road.

After I added a brick wall in front of the buildings and hotels and then I added some smoke to the top of the building in the middle, to make the image look like its a busy place. The smoke coming from the building contrasts against the solid blue sky which makes the smoke stand out more against the background of the image.