Composition

Leading Lines

A warm-color photograph that shows the "endless tunnel" effect produced when two mirrors reflect each other
50mm | 1/200 | f2.8 | ISO 800

For this photo blog, we were asked to use leading lines to represent the concept of infinity. When I thought about ways to “see” infinity that I could photograph, I thought of mirrors. When I was younger, if I ever was staying at a hotel I would always play around with the swiveling mirrors to create as many reflections of myself as I could. For this photo, I wanted to do something simmilar. I expirimented with different mirrors in my house until I found the best combination to create infinite reflections. Then, I had to figure out how to photograph them. This was a challenge because getting my camera close enough to capture the full effect meant the camera would be in the reflections, too. I finally got a good setup and was able to crop the image to show the infinite mirrors. In this photo, the leading lines of the “mirror trail” guide the viewer’s eyes through the infinite series of mirrors.