Balance with Interest
This image is really an exercise. I wanted to play around with balancing a round shape with a square one, i.e. the frame. Of course it goes without saying that I wanted to avoid the uninteresting and static mirror symmetry option.
The mirror is a magnifying one which meant that, if the frame was in focus, whatever was in the mirror wouldn’t even be close to in focus. I wanted two blurred areas, the background and the mirror surface, one square and one round. I didn’t want recognizable things confusing the issue.
This may seem like a trivial use of time but it is doing this type of exercise that informs compositional decisions when photographing the ‘real world’. I always come away understanding more than when I started.
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this is wonderful, just so serene, can you explain your title? it just seems so perfectly comfortable and……..beautiful to me.
+Sherrie von Sternberg thanks ! re title two things: It is a make up mirror and was thinking of aging and the uneasy feeling that can come with the passing of the years the second is more trivial – I know that many people (not me) feel uneasy when something isn't dead center :)
Ah yes…aging ;) I have been dealing with that and have decided that aging is the gift that is so much better than the alternative! And dead center is dead boring to me :D I love this photograph!
+Sherrie von Sternberg Exactly my views on aging -actually find it very liberating to be honest. An old art teacher hated mirror symmetry (no pun intended) said it made work look static and uninteresting and called its use lazy – she didn't take any prisoners!
what a great mentor!!!! and good for you that you learned the lesson of aging when you are still so young!!!!
+Sherrie von Sternberg Best (and the hardest) that I've had – she could spot lazy thinking at 100 paces :)