SYMMETRICAL
For some reason, symmetry often gets criticized, generally on the grounds that it shows lack of imagination. Like other things in composition, it has a time and a place. One occasion for using it is when you seriously need to bring order to a scene or subject that has none whatsoever. Here are 23 rare orange pearls, the subject of a magazine story, and they needed to be arranged and placed somehow. This meant doing more than simply emptying them on a table like a bag of marbles. First, they needed a background, and I went for contrast and texture with river-worn pebbles, meticulously blackened with shoe polish by an assistant. These had the advantage of offering resting places in the gaps, and we tried a number of arrangements, all ...
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