Like so many people, I tend to be deadline driven, and these first few posts are definitely that way. On Tuesday this week I am scheduled to give a presentation on Montages at my camera club, NVPS. In preparation for that presentation, I’d like to have a number of my actions posted so that people will be able to download them following the presentation. So that is why the double post on Sunday.
I had never even heard of a Mirror Montage until a couple of years ago when one of our members did an entire portfolio of Mirror Montages. I believe that all of them were glass and steel buildings, so lots of mirrored glass and strong lines running out of the frame. If you’ve never seen (or noticed a Mirror Montage) before, you essentially create bookends by duplicating an image and flipping it over, then butting the two halves together.
I took this image of a building with the highlighted tree:
And created a Mirror Montage with it to get this:
Many might argue about the rotation of the final image, but I liked the broader base holding the decreasing width building better than having the dark colors at the bottom and moving to the lighter colors. Flipping it also has the benefit of creating a strong “peak” with the converging lines of the building. Oh well, you just can’t win them all!
The action set has 4 actions in it, depending on whether you want to mirror on the Top, Left, Right or Bottom of the existing image. How you rotate the image after that is really up to you.
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