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I was simultaneously watching this video https://fstoppers.com/landscapes/photographing-forests-and-processing-lightroom-dramatic-mood-452350 and editing an image (below). The chap in the video briefly mentions that flipping an image (so it's a mirror image) is an option to change the composition (he was refering to a landscape image). At the time i was editing an image of a Dartmoor Pony and it got me thinking. All of a sudden I realised the pony could be facing the other way around and it made me realise that in the original image, the pony seemed to be facing 'backwards'. Even though there's no 'backwards' in real life, because we read left to right (and years of playing computer games like Mario, where left to right is always 'forward') facing to the left definitely felt awkward and the flipped image felt more 'right',
Is this something anyone else has considered when processing images with people or animals in?? To me it feels like something of a revelation.
Flipped image:
Backlit Dartmoor Pony by Tom Pinches, on Flickr
Original:
Backlit Dartmoor Pony by Tom Pinches, on Flickr
Is this something anyone else has considered when processing images with people or animals in?? To me it feels like something of a revelation.
Flipped image:
Backlit Dartmoor Pony by Tom Pinches, on Flickr
Original:
Backlit Dartmoor Pony by Tom Pinches, on Flickr