Sparrow
Veteran
... the Artist as an Old Man ...
... Bob France's portrait, part of an on going project ...
Subjectively I quite like it, I'll be doing a print, I like the sharpness and 'gritty' feel. The lighting works well with my, em ... identifying marks and the ground works well with hair (yes it needs cutting I know) ... but all in all it looks like me I think.
... Bob France's portrait, part of an on going project ...
Subjectively I quite like it, I'll be doing a print, I like the sharpness and 'gritty' feel. The lighting works well with my, em ... identifying marks and the ground works well with hair (yes it needs cutting I know) ... but all in all it looks like me I think.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
I like it!
Richard G
Veteran
You're quite a good sitter, or he's an even better portraitist. I like it.
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Lovely Portrait... Edgy, Well done
If it's Bob it must be MF
Thought the 'old man' terminology made me sad
If it's Bob it must be MF
Thought the 'old man' terminology made me sad
seakayaker1
Well-known
A wonderful portrait.
If the skin was a little smoother without the strong structure it may work just as well.
If the skin was a little smoother without the strong structure it may work just as well.
Monz
Monz
Top drawer portrait as I mentioned elsewhere.
Bingley
Veteran
Nice work!
siracusa
Well-known
It is indeed an excellent portrait. Visually arresting, really striking and compelling.
ironhorse
Joe DuPont
Excellent collaboration between the photographer and subject. Powerful portrait. Looking forward to seeing your print.
Sparrow
Veteran
... yes, one of those quirky huge Mamiya 6x7's ... I was one of the weekend's last sitters, late on the sunday and he had backache by then ...
... how about youthfully challenged?
Sparrow
Veteran
To be fair to Bob's original is a lot smoother ... flicker has buggered around with it quite a lot, I'll post it again from ipernity ...
PS there we go ...
Stewart McBride 2014 000 FULL SIZE par Sparrow ... Stewart Mcbride, on ipernity
Bobfrance
Over Exposed
Thanks for the publicity Stewart and thanks to everyone else for their kind comments. 
I feel Stewart hasn't given himself enough credit on his quality as a sitter. To explain, this is an ongoing project of mine with the working title of 'Stress Portraits/Photographic Interrogation'. The (perhaps slightly contoversial) concept behind it is to use mild forms of current interrogation techniques in an attempt to see if any 'truth' is revealed in the portrait.
The techniques involve mild stress positions such as standing in a crouched position and/or holding weights with outstretched arms. The idea being that the distraction caused might momentarily strip the sitters of their natural reserve and propensity to 'pose' and perhaps produce a revealing portrait.
The idea arose from my personal doubts over what exactly a portrait revealed and I expected to see nothing but a string of uncomfortable people. I was initially unsettled when I first saw all the shots together because the expressions and poses weren't as uniform as I had envisaged they would be but after cogitating over it for a while and spending some time with the images I am now starting to enjoy the surprising variety this rigid technique yielded and feel that this method may actually have produced insightful portraits of people whom do not generally feel comfortable having their picture took.
So do they reveal 'truth'? Well it surprises me to say it but I actually think they may do. Some images appear to show more than others, which I guess is because, just like any form of interrogations, with my pictorial interrogation you have to get the amount of discomfort just right to make any natural pretence melt away, but I do feel many of the shots have revealed something of the core nature of the sitters.
I'm still working on the other shots at the moment, but I'll publish a link when I have more to show.
Bob.
I feel Stewart hasn't given himself enough credit on his quality as a sitter. To explain, this is an ongoing project of mine with the working title of 'Stress Portraits/Photographic Interrogation'. The (perhaps slightly contoversial) concept behind it is to use mild forms of current interrogation techniques in an attempt to see if any 'truth' is revealed in the portrait.
The techniques involve mild stress positions such as standing in a crouched position and/or holding weights with outstretched arms. The idea being that the distraction caused might momentarily strip the sitters of their natural reserve and propensity to 'pose' and perhaps produce a revealing portrait.
The idea arose from my personal doubts over what exactly a portrait revealed and I expected to see nothing but a string of uncomfortable people. I was initially unsettled when I first saw all the shots together because the expressions and poses weren't as uniform as I had envisaged they would be but after cogitating over it for a while and spending some time with the images I am now starting to enjoy the surprising variety this rigid technique yielded and feel that this method may actually have produced insightful portraits of people whom do not generally feel comfortable having their picture took.
So do they reveal 'truth'? Well it surprises me to say it but I actually think they may do. Some images appear to show more than others, which I guess is because, just like any form of interrogations, with my pictorial interrogation you have to get the amount of discomfort just right to make any natural pretence melt away, but I do feel many of the shots have revealed something of the core nature of the sitters.
I'm still working on the other shots at the moment, but I'll publish a link when I have more to show.
Bob.
telenous
Well-known
Very nicely done, congrats to both. The concept gives a lot of meat to chew on.
Here's another portrait done in quasi-similar circumstances: http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/richard-avedon-marilyn-monroe-actress-new-york-may-6-1957
Stewart, you're in good company
I wonder about the lighting, I see a massive light source (window?) to the right of the sitter... Is there more to it? (No hard feelings if it's a secret light sauce.)
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Here's another portrait done in quasi-similar circumstances: http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/richard-avedon-marilyn-monroe-actress-new-york-may-6-1957
Stewart, you're in good company
I wonder about the lighting, I see a massive light source (window?) to the right of the sitter... Is there more to it? (No hard feelings if it's a secret light sauce.)
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Bobfrance
Over Exposed
Hi Alkis,
I actually shot with two strobes. One diffused to the left, which I presume interpret as the window, and the other was bare bulb with barn doors and some cloth hung over it to give a little key light to the right hand side if the image.
I was essentially aiming for fairly unflattering Rembrandt lighting, which is pretty much like a window anyway, but I happened to be in a blacked out room.
I actually shot with two strobes. One diffused to the left, which I presume interpret as the window, and the other was bare bulb with barn doors and some cloth hung over it to give a little key light to the right hand side if the image.
I was essentially aiming for fairly unflattering Rembrandt lighting, which is pretty much like a window anyway, but I happened to be in a blacked out room.
Sparrow
Veteran
Anyone wanting to see more of Bob's photos I can recommend THIS ...
... nicely produced by MagCloud and very reasonably priced ... and with a bit of a Wicker Man vibe going on too
DSC 0023 par Sparrow ... Stewart Mcbride, on ipernity
... nicely produced by MagCloud and very reasonably priced ... and with a bit of a Wicker Man vibe going on too
DSC 0023 par Sparrow ... Stewart Mcbride, on ipernity
mfogiel
Veteran
The expression is fine, but I don't like that clinical look a la Madame Tussaud's.
telenous
Well-known
Thanks Bob, appreciate the info.
It's odd how far flickr pushes the unsharpen slider, the difference is dramatic.
I'm going to delve deeper into the book now, can't resist anything with a Wicker Man vibe.
See the photo reposted (and unflickred) above then.
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It's odd how far flickr pushes the unsharpen slider, the difference is dramatic.
I'm going to delve deeper into the book now, can't resist anything with a Wicker Man vibe.
See the photo reposted (and unflickred) above then.
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Bobfrance
Over Exposed
I'm the same Alkis.
The Rushbearers was an immensely fun project to do and very different to my current one.
Oh and in case anybody wants to know the shot of Stewart was done with a Mamiya RB67 Pro-S with the 127mm/f3.8 lens (set to f5.6), shot onto Ilford Delta 100, developed in Kodak HC-110. Digital post-processing was minimal.
My Rushbearers project was shot using a Mamiya 7ii (with 50mm, 80mm & 150mm lenses) and shot onto Ilford HP5+ developed in Kodak HC-110. It was shot across four weeks and I took 150 exposures for the entire project (which is 15 rolls of 120 at 6x7).
The Rushbearers was an immensely fun project to do and very different to my current one.
Oh and in case anybody wants to know the shot of Stewart was done with a Mamiya RB67 Pro-S with the 127mm/f3.8 lens (set to f5.6), shot onto Ilford Delta 100, developed in Kodak HC-110. Digital post-processing was minimal.
My Rushbearers project was shot using a Mamiya 7ii (with 50mm, 80mm & 150mm lenses) and shot onto Ilford HP5+ developed in Kodak HC-110. It was shot across four weeks and I took 150 exposures for the entire project (which is 15 rolls of 120 at 6x7).
mfogiel
Veteran
Yes, the portrait below is much better, although still unforgiving, but I guess that men don't get forgiven much on average.
jesse1dog
Light Catcher
Like both portraits but prefer the first because it seems to have a bit more 'bite'. If all the other portraits are as good as this ......... !
Really interesting project.
Really interesting project.