My Fetish

I have an eyelash fetish. I fell in love with the works of George Hurrell about 3 years ago. I started to study this mans lighting and became obsessed with eyelashes and veiled hats with netting. The Lighting, the shadows, the beautiful ladies, the eyelashes. Hurrell shot Joan Crawford in one shot where her eyelashes went halfway down her face. I LOVED it. I foudn out in my extensive research of Hurrell that eh actually edited the photo to make the lashes longer than they really were! Backin those days, there was a lot of heavy post production, on the negative. Not in photoshop. They didn't have PS back then. Hurrells job as the job of the retouchers back then was to make Movie stars GLAMOROUS, and by were they! I hate/ed retouching my images, and some ladies said please retouch my pictures, and I would, reluctantly. I wanted my images to come out that good straight outta the camera. Well I soon learned that just wasn't going to happen. At least not wiht some of the acne scarred lovelies I photo. I have come to terms wiht my love hate relationship of retouching and have actually come to like it. Sometimes though, I don't retouch them as sometimes now they DO come out like that straight outta the camera, but rarely. This lovely young Lady came from sacramento to shoot wiht me one weekend, her name is Heidi. a wonderful woman who is NOT a model perse' but a girl who wanted pretty pictures of herself. One of my favorite ladies to work with. I think I'll email her and have her come shoot with me again.