About the Image(s)

This is a shot from a visit to Edinburgh in 2017 so well before anyone thought they’d be stuck inside sheltering from a pandemic and with time on their hands to play with messing up images with various techniques. I had always liked the look in this girl’s eye as she was watching this street artist sketch her image. But it wasn’t that interesting an image. But lockdown provided the stimulus to try out some occasionally whacky experiments and this is one of them. I had been following a section in a book called ‘Drop Dead Photography Techniques’ and in it there was a section on how to alter a portrait by applying an Andy Warhol effect. Once I had learned how to do that I started to look around for some images to use it on and this is one of the ones I chose. Also attached is the original image. As you will see I have also flipped it horizontally as I thought the lead in from artist to the girl was better. Other changes have been made to the background and the whole image has been significantly cropped to remove awkward objects such as the pole coming out of the artist’s head. Whether my interpretation of the finished image is an improvement on the one of the artist, is probably questionable but it was fun to try out!
The original image was taken on a Fuji XT1 1/80 @f11 ISO 200