The Look In Her Eyes

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This photo is inspired by the by one of my favorite artist, Jan Saudek. He has several works that are very similar to this, such as Ida as the Playcard (warning contains nudity). I very much enjoyed working with this model and have several more peices coming from this shoot.

I liked being able to combine opposing emotions in a single piece. I love the lust, passion and the alluring quality of the top portion of this. In the bottom part there is the shy personality that is almost hidden and neglected. Overall I think that combining these gives this a good visual appeal that takes the viewer's eyes from one personality to the other and back again. It also lends to the strangeness that works well within the world I'm trying to create.

Kendra

Its been a while since I posted any photos but things have been so busy. I still have about five photoshoots worth of pictures that I need to work on.

This photo is from one of the other photoshoots that I'm still working on. Its a portrait of my friend Kendra that she wanted done for her husband. I'm still working on the other photos from this session and another session that I had with her. Hopefully I'll be able to finish them up soon.

David and Wife

Waited a while before posting this as I was working with a client to create this photo and I wanted him to see the print before he saw the digital version.

It was a challenge working with a client that had a specific idea of how he wanted the photo to be done and still create a piece that works well in my current portfolio. It was also a lot of fun creating a triptych as well. Composition changes greatly when dealing with 3 individual works that need to have a strong look when displayed both individually and as a group. What I loved most about working on this piece though was the flexibility that a triptych gave when working with color. This allowed multiple colors for the background across these pieces and gave me some play in tying the pieces together by crossing colors from one piece into the other. Also the fact that the color is slightly different in the middle piece helps to draw the focus to the center photo which is the more dramatic out of the three.

Blessing

Finally did the color version of this image and it turned out to be very intense. The calmness of the atmosphere is disturbed by the background that surrounds the characters. The red gives the image an ominous feeling and is meant to convey that there is not something right with the situation. I tried to portray the glow from the characters as a type of fire and leave it to the viewer to decide if this is the flame of God or if its something less then holy.

My Wife

Wanted to experiment further with colors and backgrounds. Used a picture of my wife that I took a while back and blended in some recent cloud photos that I took. I'm really happy with the results and look forward to a photo shoot I will be having later this month so I can continue to experiment.

Terry

Did a portrait of my friend from the last photo shoot I had. Played around with the color for a while and gave him 3 versions so he could decide which one he liked the best. My favorite is the one with the red shirt, however I do like them all lined up together too. Might work better in this format if I color the first one as well and let the colors contrast and complement each other in the different versions of the photos.

Why did you kill him?

This piece has taken me a long time to complete. The idea behind it was to capture more emotion then I have been doing in some of my work. Just being behind the camera became an intense experience while photographing these models.

I wanted to capture anger and rage and to be able to feel it pour out in the photo. This made me concentrate on capturing the image at just the right moment. I had to work with the models to bring the real emotions out to the surface. It felt like being a director in a movie. As much energy that went into making the exposure the majority of the time was spent post production.

I had the photo session for this originally in January and have been working on the final image on and off since. Making the background just right was the most difficult part and working on it made me realize that in the future I would like to experiment with having a more dynamic setting. This will complicate things with my process but overall I believe it will help my art. I am very pleased with how this background turned out though. Overall I believe it helps convey the emotional exchange between these individuals.