Symmetry

Symmetrical images are pleasing to the eye and they make wonderful compositions.  It is important to photograph symmetry from a point dead center in the middle of the subjects.  If the camera position is slightly off-center, it will look like a mistake.  You can be decidedly off-center, but just a little bit to the left or right of center won't work.  I took this picture today in a 16th century Venetian palace as part of my workshop, and everyone in the group loved it.  This is a hand held HDR at 1250 ISO with three frames making up the composite.  I used HDR to prevent the lights from blowing out too much.