On the floor. This is exactly where my jaw was upon my viewing the breathtakingly extraordinary fashion shots in Ruven Afanador's online archives! His eerie twist coupled with an incredible use of lighting, color, geometry, and theatrics has automatically put him at about a 254.7 out of 10 on my "ga-ga meter." While many fashion photographers I have explored solely manipulated the subject of the photo while not having much in the background at all, I fond that Afanador manipulates almost everything in the photo to create a dream-like and slightly bewildering viewing experience. His unmatched spatial and depth perception allow him to manipulate a situation in order to create optical illusion-like situations for people to visually dissect. Afanador has shown me many photography feats that even my childhood dreams could never create.
Props to Ruven? Of course.
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