The Couch - TLR Shots

[Rob MacKillop]

The only way I could get the girls to agree to the shoot was to say I was deliberately experimenting with out of focus shots. Honestly. There's something about them I like. I could definitely conjure up a pretentious reason for them being that way, but I'll leave them be. I hope you get something out of them.

Mamiya C330S, Ilford HP5. Alien Skin Exposure 5.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

. They are beautiful Rob, not pretentious from where I sit. There is a guy who posts on the net who shoots his nudes with slow shutter, creating blur with a result which is nothing sort of superb. It demonstrates to me how our minds enjoy reading words, listening to a play's on the radio, enabling our own internal imagery . Maybe it is that participation which is enjoyable?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Julian. Much appreciated. I like the idea of listening to plays on the radio, and how our imagination becomes part of the event, the experience. I'm always trying to grab at something in my images, but have never been sure what it is that I'm trying to connect with.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I was going to write a couple more sentences, but got distracted by a rather large moth in the room. And now I can't remember what it was I was going to say. Something about how sometimes we have to be irrational, and, as the song goes, "Stop Making Sense".

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thanks, Julian. Much appreciated. I like the idea of listening to plays on the radio, and how our imagination becomes part of the event, the experience. I'm always trying to grab at something in my images, but have never been sure what it is that I'm trying to connect with.

I grew up without electricity as a child, so we sat around the open fire listening to the radio. There was a Saturday night play , even now one or two self made images about certain plays are quite vivid.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I was going to write a couple more sentences, but got distracted by a rather large moth in the room. And now I can't remember what it was I was going to say. Something about how sometimes we have to be irrational, and, as the song goes, "Stop Making Sense".

Stop making Sense, sounds ok by me Rob, along with the re- discovery of the obvious. Best not too complicate things

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Tried to make a triptych. Not 100% happy with it, so might experiment again tomorrow, when I'm less sleepy.

 

[Pete Askew]

Fabulous song and also a fabulous set and I like the way you have contrasted the in-focus sofa with the two young ladies. And I do like the portraits very much especially the differences with Rhona looking so apparently proud and almost defiant and Susan looking so calm and, maybe, resigned. Superb.

 

[Pete Askew]

No, the connection doesn't work for some reason. It is a one and two I think.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, the trip isn't working. Glad you like images, though, and I also like that you noticed the different attitudes. This could be the start of a bigger series, where I again bully my students into sitting for me....or I might stop here.

 

[Pete Askew]

You could always try drugs or alcohol or, as in Mr Lange's case, chloroform!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Ah, yes, I remember! Good idea

 

[john clarke]

I think it works very well as it allows the imagination to conjure up different perspectives.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, John. As I wake up this morning, bleary eyed, all our images look like these!

 

[john clarke]

I know the bleary-eyed feeling all too well Rob. LOL

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I like the trip , is the greater blur of one over the other a concious act?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I remember doing it that way, Julian. Seemed important at the time Susan really hates being photographed, though she's a bonnie lassie.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Update of the trip, and a re-edit of Susan.



What do you think?

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Susan's is the less blurred now. I like it either way. The symmetry of the first was good, the discord with this one above causes that bit more thought , which is ok also.