Gaetan Caputo

I got a copy of Canon's new magazine, CPN, the other day and in it they were talking about the 1DS MKIII. They had a couple images by Gaetan Caputo and I was entranced by how beautiful they were. I'm not really into people photography so I don't know how common it is to use kino strips on either side of a face (other than Martin Schoeller) but I love this image they featured:



Don't know or care who did it first but I love the telephoto look with low DOF mixed with the light of the kino's. I think what I love about it is he's using a method similar to Schoeller's except in the beauty genre rather than in editorial portraiture, which I think works out beautifully.

Check out his site here for more of his work: www.gaetan-caputo.com/

Here's a link to the online article (funnily enough, not in the magazine), though it's basically just a plug for the camera: cpn.canon-europe.com/content/road_test/gaetan_caputo.do