Moments reflected in the guests' eyes

05.12.2015 14:29

Mirrored in the young flower girl’s eyes was a beautiful scene: A bride was spending her last moments as an unmarried woman readying herself to walk down the aisle, and it is through the girl’s youthful gaze that Peter Adams-Shawn captured the intimate moment.

He took a photograph of the girl’s eye, and by doing so captured the scene not through his lens, but through hers.

Mr Adams-Shawn, 37, is an eyescape photographer.

His work allows him to create intimacy in his photos as he captures a scene reflected in the eyes of another.

The technique is one he has learned to perfect since he started his business Memories of Tomorrow Photography in 2007, and one that has become synonymous with his name.

After the initial shot Mr Adams-Shawn, who is a self-taught photographer based in Western Australia's Binningup, continued to test the technique and found with the right lighting, he could do it quite easily.

‘The eye surface itself is really quite good, it’s like a curved mirror, and in every single person that curvature is the same,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘When you are taking a shot there are two different sets of lighting: the light around the eye of the subject and the lighting of the scene that’s being reflected.’

While it depends on the quality of the lighting as to whether he can take the shot, Mr Adams-Shawn said eyescape photography had become a part of his regular work.

He has done both posed and candid eyescapes, but said capturing it in the moment was difficult as he did not always have the right camera lens.

He said the raw files required very little editing.

He said one of his best eyescapes captured an un-posed moment during the ceremony.

‘The bride and groom’s two-year-old boy was the ring bearer or page boy and he was standing watching the ceremony with the guests,’ he said.

(dailymail.co.uk)