Half Cropped Beautiful Japanese Fashion Model Portrait From Hawaii

The location for these slightly unusual portraits was lava rock walls near Hanauma Bay a famous half submerged volcanic crater on the East a.k.a. Windward side of Oahu.

There was plenty of soft light in the open shade on a very bright day when shooting in the midday sun was too blinding for the model.

Jen has a very symmetric face, great skin and beautiful hair. She may not look “obviously” Japanese nevertheless she is and her exotic look perfectly compliments Hawaii as photoshoot location.

I say unusual portrait because I am not a big fan of chopping heads in half but I actually used this photo on web promotional graphics, it is simple, beautiful and eye catching image for that purpose.

The photos were taken as regular beauty portrait shots but while running them through Photoshop I decided to cut them in half.
The interesting thing I found was how different the two sides of the same photo were and how two distinctly different pictures they resulted.

This purple effect was achieved with Virtual Photographer which is a free Photoshop plugin.