The iPhone Photography Book

Symmetry: How to Achieve It and Why We Love It

This is kind of a close cousin to the whole patterns thing we talked about earlier, and you’re more likely to use this technique when photographing architectural stuff, like buildings, or stairways, or a roof line, or a bridge. If you can frame your shot to where both sides of the image look the same, you’ve got symmetry, and people love symmetry. They’ve done studies with babies that show that they are more likely to respond positively to photographs of people who have very symmetrical faces (where the left side looks almost identical to the right side) than to people with less than symmetrical ...