{"id":369,"date":"2024-09-14T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-05-27T03:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T03:07:25","slug":"facial-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/facial-symmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Blog: Facial Symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FacialSymmetry-1024x228.png\" alt=\"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.\" class=\"wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FacialSymmetry-1024x228.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FacialSymmetry-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FacialSymmetry.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Original: 50 mm | 1\/30 s | f4.5 | ISO 1250<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of this photo was to highlight how the composition of human faces is asymmetrical by forcing symmetry on an image as is &#8216;expected&#8217; 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&#8217;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&#8217;t line up. In the end, it was surprising to see the differences in my eyes because although I&#8217;d noticed previously that they behave very differently from each other when I smile, I was not smiling in my photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this photo was to highlight how the composition of human faces is asymmetrical by forcing symmetry on an image as is &#8216;expected&#8217; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/facial-symmetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo Blog: Facial Symmetry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-composition","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}