Thursday

Symmetrical Portraits


Earlier this week, I stumbled upon these perfectly symmetrical portraits by artist Alex John Beck. I added it to my Friday Favourites post to be published tomorrow, but I just loved the concept too much to let it sit there. I had to create my own portraits! It just goes to show how asymmetrical human faces really are, although I was surprised by the symmetry in my own. I never knew I had such a symmetrical face! 

This is the original photo that I used:

This is my left side repeated:
 And this is my right side:
It's really weird seeing how similar the two sides of my face are. Apart from my left side looking more frog-like, they're really very alike! 

I'd love to see other people doing this too, so feel free to share your own symmetrical portraits! 

14 comments :

  1. I love symmetrical portraits! I had to do a project on them when I studied Higher Photography and have some of my own somewhere, will have to try find them xx

    Charlotte / coloursandcarousels

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  2. Wow, your face is SO symmetrical! I think i've tried this before and my face really isn't that symmetrical. x

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  3. Wow, your both sides are really very alike. When I did this a few years ago, I discovered that half of my face looks like grumpy guy while the other looks like a cute japanese teenage girl. Well! :D

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  4. dangit I love this and want to do it!!!! how did you line them up so perfectly? just painstaking time consumption in photoshop?

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    1. Just Photoshop. It didn't take long. I just selected half the image, flipped it, lined it up and then used the healing tool to blur the line where the two halves met.

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  5. Oh my ! I just love the concept so much :) and you're absolutely right, your left and right side are pretty much alike :)
    I think I will be trying to make my own symmetrical portraits, they just look so much fun :)
    xx
    Valeria

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  6. This is amazing! I'm sure that my face wouldn't be that symmetrical!

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    1. I had no idea mine would be. You might be surprised!

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  7. This is so interesting!! My face is totally different on one side to the other so I'm pretty sure I'd look weird! What software did you use to do this? I might give it a bash!

    Penny
    xx
    www.lilliesandlove.co.uk

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    1. Just good ol' Photoshop. I'd love to see yours!

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