Shane Willis Photography

your mermaids don,t appear very relaxed out of water,an so not very suductive. i would think a sharper focus and lower light with a more relaxed pose might work better. i do like the consept,and i think it can work well. you might try a lower angle at sunset. just my opion,i have no experance with mermaids.

Great mermaids. Realistically done and those without eye contact work really well for me.

You have a very nice portfolio .. very sensual too ... I love many of your photos but more specifically the one with the couple.. we can feel their desire for each other .. continue your nice work. Sylvie

Whenever someone comments (bad or good) on my photos, I try to go to their portfolio to get a sense of what their aesthetic is and their level of artistic merit (of course, that's always IMHO). So I've been crusing through your portfolio and enjoying myself. I will comment on several individual efforts as time permits, but I have a couple of quick and general impressions. First, I enjoy the less glamorous work more than the glamor. Having seen my work, I'm sure you will understand that. The more candid and private is more interesting to me. But, if you make your living selling your work, then you must emphasize what looks good. I'm living proof that ugly doesn't lead to renown or riches. I think your couples is really good work because most of them have an air of reality and not posture to them. I also feel that your black and white work speaks with more emotion. Have a great year, and I'll be back for more looks.

Hi Shane,

Thank you so much for commenting on my portfolio, means a lot. :) I decided to head over to yours and take a look and I just have to echo what everyone above me has said. Truly talented work. I love the idea of the mermaids shoots, very original and almost whimsical. I also really like your first b&w set, is there anything special you do in photoshop to achieve that quality? And hats off to you in your couples series, my favorite is 'Perfect Fit'... beautiful, beautiful capture. Thanks again, and I will definitely be visiting your page as you update it! :)

Hey Shane ! Thank you so much for your commentz on my portfolio ! It really means a lot to me ! What a wonderful portfolio you have here ! I especially like your digital alterations folder ! You are very creative and talented ! Keep up the very good work ! Congrats and cheers !

Shane, I have really enjoyed looking through your work, and have left comments on several individual images. great to see the work of someone who has such a passion for the creativity of the medium - great stuff!

Cruising through the site there are loads of people experimenting with Photoshop and playing with hue and saturation altering the sky etc etc.

Its good to come across someone experimenting with some of the other things PS can do.

I love it, being a newbie and learner looking at all this energy and excitment is just wonderful.

You have great eye to create art out of ordinary things in life. Nice technique, great ideas behind them and a wonderful dept in images appears which create a class of your own. Thank you for sharing your work and style with us. You are great artist It's amazing the way you treat the photographs to create such an atmosphere in them. Congrats to you and to them for the wonderful body of work that you have presented here. I look forward to seeing more. Thanks...

Thanks for all the kind words Shane. You've got some great stuff going on here as well. My photo.net portfolio is small I know. For some reason I tend to not post a lot of my work on here. I'll have a website up and running soon so you'll be able to see the majority of what I do. I'll keep you posted. Keep up the good work yourself! Thanks again!

Bryan Kannowski

Wonderful work!

Excellent portfolio, beautiful work with very good light and compositions. The whole world looks great in your shots ! Cheers, Cristi

You have some very interesting shots here, a very fun look through. I will have to keep watching for what you try next.

wanderful works .. nice captuers i like them

Hi Shane.

What a great portfolio do you have.

I like all of them, but your "SECTION EIGHT (its crazy digtial edits & fun stuff) - 08" is amazing, excellent technique and imagination, well done...

I will come back to see more of your work ;-)

...so creative

I'm happely surprised by the creativity of your portfolio... congrats:-)))) Keep on posting.

Regards, ben

Crazzzzzzzzzzyyyyy ! in a good way meant ,but you know this by now, so I will say only great job and keep it up! best wishes,Alina

Very well done, shot well composed and original Antonio

Wow! great portfolio, you have an amazing imagination, thanks again for commenting on my photos.

u have great photos.. i really like them.. and i also like how u changed the other one i have

im still learning on my own and experimenting with photography .. so i did need some advise.. thanks

You have creative mind which reflected through your work.

Very Creatiev. Regards from Austria. Klaus

The artist in you comes through strongly in your photography - which I personally think is great. Your portfolio is great, keep up the good work.

as i told u befor tour works a very nice i like them so mach.. ther for i us one of them to my poem book cave ... plase let me know can i do that or nat.. with all my regards

You have so beautifuly photos in yours portfolio...Excellent my friend...Excellent work...Greetings from Montenegro and i will come back with pleasure...

Shane, your pix are simply awsome! Keep up the good work, I will be back...

Dear Shane,

Great album man i am so amazed about those mermaids, i really wanna know more about those creatures.....what do they speak.......or can they speak.....plzzzzzzz man, and did you make any video's???

GR Y

Hi this is Melanie from Adelaide Australia, you have absolutely gorgeous work I love your work so much theres so much talent in it. I would like to see you go FAR with it and I'm sure you will. keep up the great work. Love mel :) ♥

I like you work.. B R A V O S

Thank you for the comment & rating on my photo. Your photos are amazing. I'll definately be back to see what's new. Very inspiring!

Love it well done

Every time I come back to your portfolio its better, keep it up.

Thank you for the comment on my pic. Your portraits are very provocative and sexy but never vulgar. Your photography in general has a great elegance to it that really strikes the cords (however you say it...). Excellent work Shane, for what it's worth coming from a non-professional like me...

Awesome stuff, Shane. Very skilled photoshop, inspiring to see.

Shane, thanks for rating one of my images. You have a wonderful portfolio, full of creative and amazing images, both fantacy and futuristic. Keep on sharing. Regards.

Your work is not just very good. Some is very funny.

You have an awesome work here, plenty of beauty and creativity, which is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing, Regards. Ruben, from Buenos Aires

Journey through a field of plant: well grown powerful images. Very creative and inspiring. BR Joerg

Thanks for the visits and for the kind remarks. You have a great portfolio. I really felt things when looking at you photos...and I think this is the purpose of art...to make you feel.

Shane, Yesterday I posted 'Woman Looking At Jewelry Salesman ' in the first folder. You are good with digital. Please Read my own critique on the foto and offer a suggestion if you have one.

Shane, not too long ago you commented on my photos and made a wrong comparison. I have not seen much of this kind of art but still I know that you are quite gifted in this area and especially with ideas (gifted is the only term I can think of when it comes to originality).Much if not most of your work I rate as 7/7, 7/7; it is pretty amazing.

Ottimo lavoro, fotografie molto particolari e molto ben relizzate.. Paolo

Very creative portifolio. Congratulations. Regards, Chico do Vale.

Astoundingly original. One of the best and most creative portfolios I have seen here. Wonderful work.

Shane,.. I thought i had responded on you comment and rating for my photo "Arenal" but it appears i didn't. Thank you it is appreciated. You have a interesting portfolio.., and will be back to look more....Regards.. John

Shane, thank you so much for looking at my gallery and commenting. I really appreciate it, it means a lot to me. I'm very honoured, and glad to know that you'll keep visiting my gallery from times to times. I'll do the same with yours. Your portfolio is amazing.

I love your photos! I wish I had your skill with photoshop. (Between you and me, often I like photoshopping my pictures even more than shooting them.) Maybe with practice I can learn to make cool special effects like you make for your photos. I like your angel photos the best. They're beautiful. I also love your nude photos. Some of your shots remind me of David Lachapelle, or Helmut Newton....on a psychedelic drug trip! You have a very creative, surrealistic and unique style, which I love. Regards, Evelyne

Thank you so much for your comments on CYCLE 23 and I am very happy you enjoyed it. Especially coming from someone of your talent. I always enjoy looking at you portfolio. It is always inspiring and interesting. Please keep me posted on your new work and stay in touch. Best regards, Ron Dobbs www.redartphoto.com

Very, very original portofolio, excellent photographic skills. You know how to manipulate photos and to transform every image into something unique. Congrats!

Best of the best. Congratulations!!!!

A wonderful !!!! portfolio, compliments.

I think you are insane and I think I like it. Love the portfolio. Great work, very different.

YOU HAVE A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF IMAGES.... GREAT WORK

Great images! Each one draws you in!

just had look through your many photos, some bizarre but brilliant images

Just passing through

What a wonderfully inspired portfolio, filled with the passion of a visionary's eye, sometimes recording reality, other replacing it with a joyful and humorous reshaping of the world that at times can look fighteningly real.

One feels that the artist may want not to be taken too seriously, but then his perception of people is such that his images cannot be discarded so lightly. He juggles with colours and shapes, and mixes them with human expression and emotions .. it is more then a portfolio, it is a passage through time and the realisation that what we perceive as being true may sometimes have different interpetations, depending on how we look at our surroundings.