Portraits With A Little Artistic Flair.

[reval8r]

These are a few of the more artistic portraits I beginning to shoot. All of these images come from my Enchanted Forest set that I'm building. You'll also notice that there is very little eye contact with the camera. These were shoot that way on purpose, I wanted the imagery to have the feeling the subjects were involved in the scene and unaware that a camera was present. I hope you like them and they give some creative ideas for you. As always, CC is welcome.

1.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/NicoleP_0002a_web.jpg
2.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/NicoleP_0009%20web.jpg
3.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/NicoleP_0017%20web.jpg
4.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/NicoleP_0032%20web.jpg
5.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/TiffaniN079%20web.jpg
6.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/TiffaniN081%20web.jpg
7.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/TiffaniN090%20web.jpg
8.
http://astonishingportraits.com/picts/adult%20fairy/TiffaniN109a%20web.jpg

[britainy]

those are all amazing :)

[mdonahoe1]

Fabulous! Especially #2!!

Marianne

[delboy]

Great Photos, It is obvious a lot of thought has gone into them

Delboy

[Kaye]

Larry, these are absolutely beautiful portraits. The reflection in No. 3 is just perfect.
I just love your Enchanted Forest set. Are you going to build others as well? You must have lots of room.
I also love your idea of very little eye contact.

[coffee]

Again, great use of imagination. I think you are heading in the direction that fits nicely Larry.

My only criticize is that the 5th image reflection doesn't look real/convincing. Knee looks like it's coming out of the water.

[craigpauli]

I think you have done a fantastic job with these

[reval8r]

Larry, these are absolutely beautiful portraits. The reflection in No. 3 is just perfect.
I just love your Enchanted Forest set. Are you going to build others as well? You must have lots of room.
I also love your idea of very little eye contact.

Thank you Kaye.

The reflection in 3 is a natural reflection. There are 2 sheets of 2x4 mirrored Plexiglas used for the reflection. Sometimes I put ripples or distort to the reflection in PS. Here, I just thought still water would work the best.

These are actually test shots for the set so I can tweak etc. I'll be doing Fairy portraits next spring at our local volunteer fire depart and for a battered women's shelter to help the raise money and awareness.

Don't know if I will be building any other sets for a while. My studio is in our home. It's a finished basement 18'x28' but the ceiling is only 7' which is really limiting. But if there's a will there's a way and that is one of the things I love about photography. Finding a way to get it done. Plus, I'm running out of room storing photo gear. :)

[reval8r]

Again, great use of imagination. I think you are heading in the direction that fits nicely Larry.

My only criticize is that the 5th image reflection doesn't look real/convincing. Knee looks like it's coming out of the water.

Thanks Joseph. I do agree about number 5. I need to go back and mask that area again. Looks like I took too much off in that area. The reflection here is superimposed and done in PS. The one in 3 was a mirror reflection. Where the 2 mirrors came together really distorted the image on 5 so I went for making a reflection.

How's everything go by the way?

Larry

[reval8r]

I appreciated the comments guys. I hope these are a spark of inspiration for you.

Larry

[jerryph]

Who hooo! Double thumbs up!!!

[reval8r]

Who hooo! Double thumbs up!!!

I just might being doing something right. It doesn't get any better than a double thumbs up from Jerry!

What's up Jerry? How's the wedding working going up in the soon to be great white north?

Larry

[mrdoug]

OK... these are simply INSANE GORGEOUS! Are you kidding? W O W !

[sandrac]

I thought was looking at a childrens book
souch good shots

[johnbiondo]

One word... ASTOUNDING!

[kinetic]

Larry amazing work…I particularly like the 3rd from the bottom.
Mark

[pipedesign]

I really like #6 - makes you ask what she is distracted by ....