The challenge for the next two weeks is to create images that have symmetry. The world is full of symmetrical patterns. The object of this exercise is to capture these patterns in an artful way. For inspiration click here. For a more formal description of what symmetry means in photography click here.
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Spray Lakes
1/800, ISO 400, 37mm focal lenght, F/9
Spray Lakes – a very still day
F/6.3, ISO 400, 19mm focal lenght, 1/500 exposure.
Beautiful composition.
attempt at symmetry, reflection of a glass ornament f13, 1/8 ISO 500 112mm
Reflections always work for symmetry. Love the colours.
Picture taken in the South Serengeti, close to Ndutu. Taken with my 100-400 mm lens at 1/125 sec, f/13, ISO 500
Picture taken in Tanzania, not sure of exact location. Shot with my 100-400 mm lens at 1/100 sec, f/22, ISO 320
Taken just before all the snow dump. Blurred background a little in gimp
f/8.0, 1/250, iso400
Attempt at symmetry using mirrors
f/5, 1/100, iso400
Love the composition. Great idea to use mirrors
Edworthy park bridge ISO 100 f6.3 1/1000 30mm
I’m joining Tony and Della with the bridge theme. Great minds think alike!
ISO 250, f/18, 1/60.
Great example of symmetry in architecture.
ISO 400, f/18, 1/60.
What could be more symmetrical than this beauty. I stand to be corrected but I believe this is a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, perched on some Garry Oak in BC.
Went to the Zoo Conservatory today to look for symmetry in nature. 1/100 sec, f/6.3, ISO 1250. I was surprised how high I had to push the ISO to get reasonable Depth of Field. I ran this image through Topaz Denoise to get good results.
Symmetrical dog yawn
ISO 1600, 50mm, f/6.3, 1/25th sec
out with the dog saw this fence so ya. I removed the background, filled it with black straightened, and converted it to b+w.
Interesting assignment, what I thought was symmetry was not at all what I imagined. I found the simplest things made the best art symmetry. This was with my macro lens, on a mirror, with headlamp, with settings on manual, F5.6, 1/60 sec ISO set at 640 to reduce noise. Only cropped.
What is this object?
Another leaf pattern from the Zoo Conservatory
Flaw removed with cloning tool.
f2.8, 1/80 sec., ISO 500
F/8, 1/250 sec., ISO 100
I had permission to shoot this door but couldn’t wait until sun was more perfectly aligned. I promised to send a copy to my friendly neighbour and he replied he was admonished by his wife for not cleaning the winter grime off the horizontal edges.
AI can only do so much was my response Haha.