From the course: Photography: Advanced Composition
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Reflections
- I'm swiping this exercise from Connie Imboden, who you saw in Foundations of Photography: Composition, and whose incredible work, which you can see here, is all about complex manipulation of layers in a scene. As I said in the last chapter, recognizing the relationships of objects on different plains is very difficult to do. Shooting reflections is a great way to practice this for the simple reason that we usually don't pay attention to things that we see reflected in a puddle of water on the ground. Some part of us knows that those reflected images are not real things, so we can ignore them. So, first of all, paying attention to reflections gets you seeing in a different way, and, second, a reflection is a layer. It's reflecting something at a different depth than the thing that's actually causing the reflection. For example, this image by Amber Griffith, we got a lot of layers here. So, there's a woman on the other side of the window. Amber is shooting through the window. So…
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