Broken Mirror

Shattered glass gives you several versions of one face, and none of them line up. The misalignment is the content of the shot.

It is a picture of somebody who has come apart, made without changing anything about the person.

Every shard sits at its own angle, so every reflection shows the subject from a slightly different position and at a slightly different size. That offset is what separates the shot from a cracked overlay.

The crack lines catch light along their edges and read as bright seams between the fragments.

Some shards can be missing, black, or turned away entirely, which gives the frame somewhere to breathe.

Use it for a break, a decision, a confrontation with a self image, or a title frame for a piece about identity.

Skip it as decoration. The look makes a claim about the subject, and it is hard to use casually.

Reflections gives you a second version of the subject in a surface that is still intact, and both versions read as one continuous image.

Check the alignment. One coherent reflection is Reflections. Fragments that disagree with each other is Broken Mirror.

The model draws a crack pattern over an otherwise normal reflection, which is a texture and not an effect. Say every shard is offset and shows the face from a different angle.

The second failure is an intact mirror with a filter on it. Ask for shattered glass with the face broken across the cracks.