It’s all in the eyes

For quite awhile, I have been fascinated by eyes, pictures of eyes, eyes in movies (especially those in film noir)… well, all eyes.  I sort of first found a fascination with taking these pictures with a senior whose photos I did a couple of years ago.  Since then I have done more “watching and learning,” a technique that has given me more insight into how much of my photography is just for clients, and how much is just for me.

This photo is the first one I did for a client, who requested it.

 

It wasn’t long after this wedding that we were photographing some models for an upcoming product line we are working on.  I’ve known the one model for many years, and have always found her eyes and her expressions to be deep and expressive.  This image is extracted from a much larger picture, so rather than try to fix the grain, I enhanced it a little to give it a kind of mystery.

Later in the senior season, we photographed the daughter of our hair stylist.  She has really amazing eyes.  I’d never seen someone who had what amounts to highly reflective irises.  The color in them seems to have gone brighter under the right light.  While the rest of the image has been desaturated to really draw attention to the eyes, they stand on their own.