Monday, October 12, 2009

The eye

This was a hard working week-end, shooting effectively hundreds of close-up photos of eyes with contact lenses (7 models, about 50 lenses, 3-4 shots for each). Tiresome but rewarding, commercial but without pay, Fun stuff.

lot of eyes


During the photo session I developed a theory: interested in cosmetic contact lenses seems to be girls with beautiful brown eyes and girls with less-than-beautiful but non-brown eyes. Probably a try to fit a social norm and a corrective action.

I can understand someone is not happy with her eye color, hell, I am not with mine, I can also understand someone's curiosity about a new eye color, but I can't understand why someone with beautiful eyes would prefer a complete fakery (duh! those lenses are so unnatural!) only because she does not have the "perfect" color (I think is obvious I find the natural form of some of the eyes above to be really beautiful).

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8 comments:

  1. Hey excellent work, even if unpayed this is really well done.

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  2. My eyes are like the color of the pic on the top left corner. It's kind of weird though. If I wear a purple shirt, they look kind of purply-brown. Blue shirt--very bright, Red shirt--Kind of red, Brown or Black shirt--very dark. lol I love them. :-)

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  3. @Emily: this is true, the color of the eyes is influenced by the surrounding light, ad our clothes reflect the light, influencing its qualities: color, brightness, temperature, etc.

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  4. im a high school school taking photography classes...i found this very interesting..my photography teacher always tells us to create the focal point of our photos somewhere other than the center...the repitition of the different colored eyes works very well :)

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  5. and your teacher is right, most of the composing the picture using the rule of thirds will bring a good result

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  6. I have red-brown eyes They're dark brown and when I'm angry they turn into deep red :DD scary as hell..but I like it ^_^

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  7. i like the colour of my eyes

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  8. my eyes are mad pretty they are green blue gold and brown <3

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