Flipping Out and Narrowing Down:Cee’s CCY Challenge 22

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I have problems approaching anything in a left-brained manner and my locational dyslexia makes mirror images a problem, but there is something about  flipping an image that is intriguing to me.  I don’t really know why I prefer one view to the other, but I always do, and I know Cee can explain why.  As for cropping–that’s my baby!––all hands on instead of preplanning.  So, I’m going to take a few images to crop and flip and let’s see what happens.

I immediately saw an image within an image in this larger shot.  See if you can see it:

Version 2

Before I show the cropped version, here is this version flipped:

Version 3Here is the crop, both original and flipped:

IMG_7596IMG_7596 (1)Can you see why I chose this detail to crop?  Do you see the bird, and perhaps a chick on the branch below her?  Okay if you don’t see the chick, as it is a bit more abstract.

Both Yolanda and I prefer the right-facing bird.  I think Cee would say it is because the eye goes to the sun-shaped light spot and then moves down to the bird and circles around to the right before curling to the left, to take in the entire scene.  With the left-facing bird, the eye goes to the “sun” , down the bird and off the tail to the edge of the photo, leaving out the entire left side.  I may or may not be right about this.  All I know is that I like the first one better.

Now I’m off in search of more to flop and chop!!!


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6 thoughts on “Flipping Out and Narrowing Down:Cee’s CCY Challenge 22”

  1. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

    Brave of you to take on this challenge. I almost never flip photographs. I’ll straight them, crop them, filter them… but there’s something about flipping it that bothers me. Weird huh?

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      No, I think if you know how it belongs that your mind wants it to stay that way, but it is interesting psychologically, I think. I’ve been testing out Cee’s theory. The problem is, I can see every composition from so many different vantage points. Hard for me to simplify. And even then, One of the choices just “looks right” to me. Reasoning doesn’t help much. It was interesting that Yolanda agreed re/ which she liked best–immediately. So, I’m sure there is some artistic truth I respond to intuitively rather than rationally.

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