Symmetrics

Challenge #59 in the Language Of Light series. Hosted by OldArrow.

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Take a half of a human face image, flip it horizontally, and reconnect to itself, creating a new physiognomy. The example was once used to demonstrate how no face can be perfectly symmetrical without losing much of its expressiveness. For that purpose, best use a picture of someone who won't mind! Auto-portraits are fine... and MIND the Rules, please!

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Announced:

Thursday, 7th February, 2013 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 14th February, 2013 – Wednesday, 20th February, 2013 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 21st February, 2013 – Wednesday, 27th February, 2013 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Own digitally taken photos with full EXIF only.
Longer side of the photo MUST NOT be over 1600px.
Format and Aspect may be as you please.
Frames / Borders within the overall size limits are acceptable.
No time-stamps, watermarks, nor any other kind of author-identifying data.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Human face images only.
Observe DPR Rules on decency. Entries which may offend the viewer in any sense will be disqualified.
Your Entry MUST have a proper Title.
Title MUST NOT reveal or hint at identity of the person in the image.
Titles containing camera or archive codes, which don't mean anything to the Viewers, will cause disqualification.
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Sandbagging, vote soliciting or any other improper voting attempt puts the perpetrator on the Blacklist.
Entrants / Voters blacklisted and/or caught cheating in ANY DPR Challenge are NOT WELCOME in my Challenges, and will be removed on sight.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 9

Congrats, Winners! Thank you, all - there are some very nice entries regardless of the placement.

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The entries are getting better and better!
What an idea for a challenge!

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Someone was watching 8th floor????

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OldArrow, I think it is not a good sample image. Photo does not show the whole face.

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The final result was cropped to this frame intentionally, but the main theme is still visible. You do not have to post up the exact result; the final picture can be corrected as a whole (tilted, re-framed...). The point is to show how the face needs its asymmetrics to be memorable, expressive and interesting.
As opposed to classical views of "beautiful", photography was able to prove that the most interesting faces show the greatest differences in that aspect, although these can't be said to be "beautiful". Maybe this was a learned trait, but still holds true.
Everybody can prove this with the same method required in this Challenge: just reconnect the right and left face halves onto themselves, and you get two different persons...
You might find this experiment ineresting.

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The way I understand the theme, the face should be symmetrical but the whole frame doesn't have to!... Right?

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Right!

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Must it be a face or is say a cat with two heads ok also?

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It's not repeat NOT about two-headed funny images!
It's about one side of the HUMAN FACE reconnected to itself, so as to be symmetrical. The purpose is to show the advantages of natural asymmetry and the influence it has upon facial expressivenes.
Cat images will be shooed away. ;)

Thanks for the warning, though. I have been able to timely re-phrase the intro and the rules, and remove the ambiguities.

Comment edited 2 times, last edit 7 minutes after posting

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