For and for most my greatest appreciation and thanks to all the wonderful models who have worked with me over the years and those that will work with me in the years to come. Without you my artistic ideas and visions would be limited to flowers and sunsets - no matter how good I am I couldn't have created anything without you.
UPDATE:
Sometimes we all reach crossroads in our passion, our lives, our art. I find myself at such a crossroad now. While I've perfected my studio lighting to a high level - I find it doesn't feed my soul as much as it used to. I have a studio that I only use a dozen times a year - if I'm lucky - or inspired to do so.
Add to that the fact that times are tough - what doesn't make me money costs me money in my photography business. The cost of the studio is an expense I can no longer justify just to play in a few times a year. So I'm letting it go.
I may still shoot time to time with models from here - I still have a love for film photography, working in infrared and of course my black and white work, but it will be more location work than anything else. If I have an idea that can only be done in studio - well one can always be rented.
As such I've also dropped my account here back to legacy - which means only a few of my favorite images will be here. Check out the sites below for more of my work.
A few of my various sites are listed here:
500px
http://500px.com/markhayes
For much of my fine art and sensual nude work be sure to visit
http://mh-underground.com/
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Blue Shift Infrared Project
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This project is currently closed to all TF shoots and available as a paid shoot only with the exception of anything in my casting calls that might be IR related.
$500 - 2 hours - 6 printed 8x10's (your choice of images) and 12 web sized images.
Greatly inspired by the amazing work of StudioCMC in Delaware
http://www.modelmayhem.com/300105
this studio infrared project is mostly done in a modified DSLR with one of the stock filters replaced with a traditional infrared filter - and then a few custom tweaks have been made. I'm not the first photographer locally to do this - but my years of studio lighting skills combined custom white balance (in camera) and tweaks to the lights, and the final results are fairly unique and striking amongst anything being done on the local level with this. Printed on a metallic or pearl paper the prints are exceptional. The effect is almost entirely done in camera with photography and not in photoshop. The photoshop tweaks to these images are fairly light - just brightness and contrast for the most part - no more than I'd do for a good headshot or portrait.
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