Stripe.

Here is a story of a lovely lady. Someone with very little experience on modeling, but with a lot more in the uphill journey of life. An 8 month time span from the original plan to shoot these photos, and here we are now. This quick trip into the middle of nowhere just a few hiking miles from Eagle Mountain lake, and we settle in at the spot where most photographers go to shoot their senior photos. I have become typical here, but nevertheless I make the best of the situation. This makes for great practice, and our model doesn’t seem to mind as her thoughts are lost within the clouds.

Not One Smile.

A photographer usually tries to evoke an emotion through their photographs, and it occasionally begins with a smile. Here it was a little different because I almost expected that I would not achieve the intended results. My subject was way too nervous for that, and being this was her first time modeling, I decided to focus on the inner turmoil. She is a very beautiful girl, painfully shy in these circumstances, but nevertheless I think you can see something that evokes that emotion if you look hard enough in any photo.

Purple and Blue.

Sometimes you go into post processing and edit all the tiny imperfections from a photo, but in this case, I didn’t think it was necessary as it added to this model’s character. Things that often make for additional work in a photographer’s workflow are for the most part, better left alone. It gives you the understanding that not everyone is shiny plastic, but real human beings. I think that is ok. It is a story better left told through a photo rather than words.