Hi demicjusz, I haven't heard the expression used that way. I usually hear it as a political term indicating someone's position as neither left nor right, but somewhere in the center - or possibly in negotiations between two parties or groups where a compromise position is being sought. I'm neither a photographer nor a painter, and I don't know what terminology photographers use in the connection you suggested.
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