Photo Blog: Frame Within the Frame

It was fun playing with the lighting for this photo, because phone screens are so bright. It was hard staying stable enough in the dark while holding two cameras. I think the photo says something about how limited the view is through a phone.

Photo Blog: Color Theory

To make the photo I chose more cinematic, I opted for a colder and bleaker look. I made the colors overall more blue, and followed the reading material to desaturate the green significantly. I also adjusted reds to be more yellow. One challenge was dealing with the brightness of the bare branches, as I was …

Photo Blog: Facial Symmetry

Three images side by side of my own face, but the outer photos have a side of my face reflected to the other side for symmetry.
Original: 50 mm | 1/30 s | f4.5 | ISO 1250

The goal of this photo was to highlight how the composition of human faces is asymmetrical by forcing symmetry on an image as is ‘expected’ and showing how strange it actually looks. In my case, I used my own face; I took a photo of myself in the mirror and then flipped it. Since I couldn’t see through the camera, it took a few tries to even get it aimed at my face. I then put it in photoshop and used masking and transformations to flip half of my face. I tried my best to get the ears, neck, and eyebrows to not have any jumps even though they didn’t line up. In the end, it was surprising to see the differences in my eyes because although I’d noticed previously that they behave very differently from each other when I smile, I was not smiling in my photo.