For this assignment, students were challenged to take photos of faces and edit them to be symmetrical. After taking a couple of photos of my family members, I asked my dad to take a photo of me because I was curious about what my face might look like if perfectly symmetrical. Then, I put my photos into Adobe Photoshop and created 2 different symmetrical versions by duplicating and reflecting both the right and left sides of the face. I was suprised by the results I got. I found that one side of a persons face would look relatively normal to me when duplicated, but that the other might drastically vary. In fact, the symmetrical version of my dad’s right side looked so normal that I had trouble telling it apart from the original photo. This exercise was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed seeing my dad’s reaction when he saw the final product.

Here are the 3 versions of my face:

(50 mm, 1/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 3200)

And here are the 3 versions of my dad’s face:

(50 mm, 1/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 3200)