Initial Environmental Experimentation 1

This is the image I started with, this image was taken at a vintage clothes stall in Camden market, London.

I added guides to allow me to line everything up.

I calculated my spacings and entered them in for both the horizontal and vertical guides.

I added a layer and then used the marquee tool to draw a circle, using my guides to help me. Once I had created my circle around the area I wanted I clicked on the layer with my original photo and copied and pasted it straight to a new layer, I repeated this for the rest of the grid.

Once I had finished my first row, I used the move tool to swap round each circle.

I repeated for the rest of my grid.

I then selected a layer and went to edit, transform and flip horizontally to flip the photo to create more of an illusion.

I then turned my guides off.

Experimental final pieces
After I had finished, I wasn't completely happy with the piece, I then experimented with different versions of the similar style, incorporating different colours and shapes.

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Evaluation

This is my inspiration for this piece. My piece does differ from this original as I wanted to put my own spin on it. This original is a landscape photo and mine is a portrait. I turned out how expected and works well, however, because my photo is more crowded than this original it doesn't work as well. It is less clear everything has been shuffled around. I then experimented with different developments of my original idea, I think these have worked better, especially the multi colour one. It is clearer there is something different about it and the image is still intact.