Wedding photographer Peter Adams-Shaw has a thing for reflections. The Australian photographer first captured an “eyescape” picture in 2011 when he noticed a reflection of wedding scene in a guest’s eye.
While he was happy with the effect, he didn’t start taking the pictures regularly until 2014. Impressively, the images are all single exposures, taken on the wedding day, and not put together in Photoshop – relying simply on light, bright eyes, and clever techniques.
He told techly that the trick is to understand that eyeballs need to be considered as a “darkened, curved mirror”.
“In layman’s terms, each eye offers a consistent reflection. Therefore, the angle of reflection with regards to taking the shot is all important. The reflection on the eye surface is a little like a reflection onto dark sunglasses – the eyeball is a sort of darkened, curved mirror – it kills the light.
“That means the scene you are capturing needs to be a lot brighter than the subject, which is the hardest thing to compose.”
Like we said, he really likes reflections.
All images via Memories of Tomorrow
