by Owen | Filed Under Photographers, X-Ceteras
It is our great good fortune to be able to present the work of Michael Helms to you here. If you have ventured here from deviantArt you probably know all about Michael — when it comes to nude photography, he practically owns the place — and if the DA management had any sense they’d give him a healthy cut of their revenue for his making them look so good. But somehow I doubt they do that. So you DA users can stop now and go back to admiring Michael’s work there.
But if you’ve come here from other reaches, you may not know about Michael and that is a damn shame. Michael is, to put it very simply, a genius. His technical virtuosity is matched by very few, but that is not the core of his genius. His understanding of light and especially color are extraordinary, but that is not the core of his genius either.
Michael’s genius lies in the way that he can see beauty and bring it out, very gently yet very surely, in such a way as to be able to photograph it. Now it goes without saying that Michael regularly works with the most beautiful women in the world, but what is astounding is that his portraits of them transports this beauty into something very close to, and not infrequently attaining, the true Divine. That is not to say that Michael makes them more beautiful — we’ve worked with a number of the same women he has and so we know whereof we speak — but that he is able to get into a photograph the true, undiluted nature of their beauty.
We suspect that Michael is so inspired by these extraordinary women that his inspiration, his obvious gifts, and his wonderful character reflect back to and inspire the women he works with and in this marvelous positive feedback loop, the Divine is created.
Someday, Michael will work with Someone We Know and a singularity of Awesomeness will develop in LA and the universe may come to a screeching halt. But no one will mind.
Michael Helms on Deviant Art
His models:
Scar
Sarah Ellis
Shy-to-Shy
Kymberly Jane
Angela Ryan
Xanthia
Shelby
Lauren
Courtney & CJ
Comments
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