Lines of Symmetry

[Dexenthes]

So I'm not much of a photographer and my camera is just a point and shoot, but I still like taking pictures. And something that I've noticed I really love doing is tweaking with interesting pictures and turning them into mirror images. Maybe I'm just crazy but some of these I think turned out really cool.

Making scenes that are not symmetrical into symmetrical images is really neat and I love seeing the patterns that they form...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these, cause I did.

This was the first one I ever made: N. bicalcarata

N. ventricosa

N. hamata

N. ventricosa x glandulifera

N. glandulifera x boschiana

The island.

I really like this one

This one was sloppy, I should re-do it because I like it so much

I really loved this one too

N. sanguinea

N. spectabilis x talangensis

Muscles

 

[cool85k5]

That's pretty neat!

 

[Dexenthes]

That's pretty neat!

Thank you. My labor has not been in vain then.

 

[cool85k5]

Your welcome!

 

[potted_plants]

Cool! Did you use photoshop to do that?

 

[Dexenthes]

Cool! Did you use photoshop to do that?

No photoshop is much too complex for its own good for something like this.

It's all MS Paint, all the way on these.

 

[Whimgrinder]

Fascinating images! Love em.

Dude, if you have an iPad, you totally need this app:
http://http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kaleidoscope-x-for-ipad/id364721999?mt=8&ls=1

You plug in your own photos and it's peristomatic mirror imaging heaven! See?:

This is from a photo of the new N. aristolochioides hybrid, N. Involuntary Bliss.

 

[jimscott]

Way cool!

 

[richjam1986]

Cool

 

[Dexenthes]

That is an awesome app! I have nothing that could run it though.

My latest and one of my all-time favorites:

 

[tuballkain]

I dig these in a major way! Cool pics!

 

[Radagast]

These are awesome! I'm gonna check out that app.

 

[theplantman]

Wow--thanks for the update 'cause I never saw the original. Awesome stuff!! Nature's gorgeous, isn't it?

 

[Bio]

These are awesome!!! I like how some are neat and crystalline, while others are kind of creepy.

 

[Dexenthes]

Thank you for the nice words guys. Here's the latest one:

 

[bluemax]

I think I can see a sort of botanical Buddha figure in the center of this one! 'Cool.

 

[Whimgrinder]

Hermann Rorschach would have been pleased ;-)

 

[Dexenthes]

A new favorite of mine:

 

[Tanukimo]

Very interesting pictures, although the ladybug one was rather disturbing to me up close. I really like the ones where it looks like there is a mouth in the center.

 

[Not a Number]

It's not that complicated to do in Photoshop. Here is one method. You can actually simplify the procedure by cutting out some steps. There's probably a filter to do it for you.

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/mirror-image/