I revisited a portrait session I did with a young lady a few months ago, and I played around with a technique that is intriguing. Using Photoshop, I selected half of the model's face with the rectangular marquee tool, and then I copied this to the clipboard with Edit > copy (the clipboard is an invisible temporary holding place for one photo at a time). I then pasted the half-face onto the portrait with Edit > paste and flipped it left to right with Edit > transform > horizontal. Finally, I moved it into place with the move tool and this completed the mirror effect.
With Nik Color Efex Pro I enhanced the color and the contrast and then I added a gradient of color.
This procedure produced a very unusual image that I find quite intriguing. It's always interesting to me that going back over photos taken in the past can be a catalyst to produce artistic variations of them that didn't occur to me when I took them originally.
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