Mirror Project Entries
Ok, I’ll start us off on this week’s theme, which is entries for The Mirror Project. The idea is to get some sort of self portrait using a reflective surface. Plenty of examples can be found on The Mirror Project’s website, and there are a bunch of other rules that they have as far as pictures that are posted.
The picture above is smaller than what I usually post, because I couldn’t find the original, and had to download the version that I had posted to The Mirror Project all those years ago. This weekend, I hope to do some shooting and come up with some more creative shots.
Anyway, the above picture shows a reflection of me and my camera on the elbow of the cold air intake in the engine compartment of my car. (And no, I couldn’t figure out a way to cram more prepositions into that sentence.)
As usual, if you have ideas for future themes we can use, please let me know.
January 27th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Like Terence this is an entry I place on the mirror project back in May of 2002. The following is the text I put with it on the Mirror Project.
So which one of you is me?
Taken looking into the tri-folding vanity mirror in my bathroom. When the mirrors are like this and I am peeking in I have a hard time convincing myself there is not another world in there, and yet the world is destroyed when I open it up to climb in.
January 27th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
This picture is the reflection of me and the GFWTR while we were shopping for Granite. This was one of the slab we liked while taking pictures I notice this one had a good reflection so I snapped a picture of us.
January 28th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Ok, here’s one I just shot. I like that you can see three different reflections of myself in it - in the grapefruit spoon, and in the engraved frame behind it.
One that I thought of trying to shoot was my reflection in the rear-view mirror in my car. I figured I could get one while in motion and with a long shutter speed so that everything outside of the car was blurred out. However, the wifey is sick right now, and I don’t think it would be a good idea to try it myself while driving…
January 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
By the way, I’ve always loved that picture you took in your vanity, Birch. That was such a great idea.
January 28th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
I guess I’ll have to wait a few more days to watch WarGames, as it didn’t survive the trip from Seattle to Cleveland.
January 29th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am
I was walking out of Glennan (lab) a few weeks ago and I saw a corner of a mirror sticking out of a pile of trash. And I wondered, ‘boy woudn’t it be awesome if that’s a cube mirror?” And sure enough, it was. A cube mirror is just three reflective surfaces arranged at right angles. But it has some amaizing properites. It always reflects light parallel from where it came from, which is really counter-intuitive. This means that now matter how you rotate the mirror, your reflection stays the same. Bike reflectors are made up of thousands of little cube mirrors to bounce headlights back at the headlight owner.
Anyway, I had a lot of fun with it before I broke it.
March 12th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I like the entries so far! Terence, I particularly like that you’re reflected both right-side-up and upside-down in the spoon. I know this thread was a while back, but I’ve been working on, among other things, a conference paper due in ten days, the data for which I don’t really have yet. So obviously, it’s time to procrastinate!
A couple of you saw this blimp at a party at my house a month or so ago; my dad got it for me for Christmas. This shows a pretty good view of our dining room, including piano and table. The blimp is on; if you look closely you can see a white “headlight” on the gondola, as well as an otherwise unrecognizable reflection nearby of the red LED on the radio control, which is sitting on the piano bench. The camera is occluded by the gondola; you might be able to make out a fishline tether dangling off the gondola going right by the camera. I took the picture quickly; my original intent was to have the mirrored image in focus. I applied a cooling filter in Photoshop to reduce the yellow cast from our dining room ceiling lamp, which is reflected on the left side- interestingly, this didn’t make the light from the windows look much more blue than they already were, but it made my face and the room look a lot better.