2 days ago
Close Up Experiment
I love portraiture. Most of the time though, I take a portrait to show people that they are beautiful. Sometimes it is to show other people that the person is beautiful. Last night though, I decided that I wanted to show people as they are flaws and all, at least for one image. No retouching. For me this is a different kind of beauty. A braver kind.
(By the way, click the image for a larger version, or here for the largest version)
If the style of these images is familiar to you there is a reason.
Sarah and Erin
I had the pleasure earlier this month of photographing two photographers from Iowa. Sarah and Erin came down on a Saturday and spent the weekend with me snapping who knows how many frames.
The first location we went to was an open field with an abandoned home and some rusted out vehicles. It had been pretty sunny the week of the shoot so I figured that it would be pretty easy to get in and out. I was definitely wrong.
You wouldn’t know it from the photographs but, it was insanely muddy. I didn’t realize this until I had already driven my poor car halfway up the sludge-like road leading to the location, parked and tried to get out. So, fifteen minutes later when I’ve gotten my car back on solid ground we get to start shooting.
