Photographer Research Suren Manvelyan

Suren Manvelyan
http://www.surenmanvelyan.com/bio/
(Last looked at on 06/03/2020)

He was born in 1976 and has interests in Marco, portraits and Creative photo projects. He works in Armenia and is published worldwide. He became a professional photographer in 2006, with his latest and newest popular series entitled 'Your beautiful eyes' becoming a hit. It it uses Macro photography of the human eyes and is similar to his series on animal eyes.





The shoot that I'm most interested in is his fairy light portrait shoot as shown below:
http://www.surenmanvelyan.com/people/fairy-lights-portraits/

(Fairy lights portraits)

The fairy lights are behind her are causing a speckled look in the background due to them being completely of of focus. In the foreground the focus is on the side profile of the face. This is highlighted by a white spotlight. This creates and interest in the viewer to know what is in the background and how the subject actually looks.

(Fairy lights portraits)

In this photo the background fairy lights appear to look like rain behind the subject. This affect is created where the lights behind are out of focus. I really like how this highlights the subject with the faecal expression portraying that maybe this is someone who is going to walk away from something they love and start crying symbolised by the effect of rain behind them. 

(Fairy lights portraits)

The lights behind this subject almost act as if they are going to warm her like a fire would. This idea of being warmed is created by the fact they the subject is wrapped up in a hood, scarf and gloves. This is highlighted more because she is rubbing her hands together and looks cold due to her nose also being red.

(Fairy lights portraits)

In this photo the subject is looking at the camera almost as if she is about to turn and allow you to focus on what is causing the lights behind her. The background use of the out of focus lights on the left hand side really add to the mystery of what is this thing causing the speckling effect.

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For this photo the speckling reminds me of the photos taken with a city behind the subject due to the colours that have been produced. It feelings like if the camera was zoomed out you would she the subject standing on a balcony smiling at the person taking the photo with the city light behind them. The gives some many possibilities to what could be there that it allows the mind to create its own ideas and story with in the photo.

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