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NickG
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Topic starter April 26, 2023 9:02 am  

Sellwood Bridge, Portland OR. Two views, one upright, the other inverted. I enjoy working with reflections in water surfaces (no shortage of those in the Pacific Northwest!). I frequently take a reflected image and then invert it. You get interesting effects. The risk, always, is looking gimmicky.

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April 26, 2023 9:19 am  

The "normal" one looks like an X, the other like an eye :-) In this case I prefer the upright one.

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April 28, 2023 6:00 am  

Interesting.


   
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April 28, 2023 6:38 am  

It's funny, but -purely personal preference - I usually don't care for symmetry...and yet, in the first shot, the bridge and reflection are symmetrical...but the background isn't. The treeline tapers on the left.

You broke my brain.


   
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