Unconventional

I was once reading a brief bio of a photographer whose name I can't recall off hand.  In the text, the photographer was described as someone who photographs women of unconventional beauty.  I found that phrasing kind of strange considering I found most of the subjects quite attractive.  Regardless of how attractive I thought the subjects were, that phrasing seemed to me to be a work of art so I made sure to remember it.

Speaking of unconventional beauty, that's Dave up there on the left.  I had the opportunity to make a few portraits of him this weekend.  He may look like a meanie but he's a real nice guy and he just lights up when he laughs.  I was invited out to spend a few days at my friend Ray's place in Sequim out on the Olympic peninsula.  The idea was to just get away from the city for a few days do some sightseeing.  Oh, and to take some portraits of Dave here.

With Dave's weathered face it would have been easy to go all Fast Company style and give him a hyper real look topped with a flood of rim light.  But instead I decided to do something a little different.   I've always liked the look of the seamless background plopped down in the middle of some location that's shot wide so you can see the surrounding environment.  I bought a 4ft gray seamless with the intention of doing just that.  We set up at EcycleNW, the local ecycling facility owned by Ray's friend Dan.

Here are a couple of the resulting photos:

You can see the rest of the images here.