Website Update

[Rob MacKillop]

I've just updated my babelsberg studio photos:

http://www.babelsberg-studio.com/photographer.asp?u=21

Just use your right arrow on your keyboard to go through the images, or hit the play button.

These are the shots I would feature in a gallery as an overview of my artistic endeavours.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I like it it a lot and I find that this represents your photography as I have perceived it. It'll be too much to comment on every image of course, but you can be proud.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Merci, monsieur Larsen!

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Well done sir. This certainly condenses your excellent work. As I've said many times...I really enjoy both of your artistic pursuits.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Glenn. Much appreciated.

 

[Tom Dunne]

A surprise to see a self portrait as the opening image but I have to say it is an excellent one and beautifully presented. It reminds me of a painting from some period or other. Similarly with the second portrait of your found friend. Further through the site I really enjoyed the more abstract work, some I had not seen before.
What pervades the site is the evidence that you are prepared to try anything and be daring leaving us with a style that is definitely Rob, dark and brooding; a style that appeals to me very much.
I was disappointed not to see one of my favourite images of yours; one from your local walks I think where we see an excellent sky with a high building, camera totally facing upwards, very dizzying. Also I missed some of your colour abstracts which I think are easily as good as your mono abstracts. You seem to have ditched the colour.
There's room for both I think.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Tom, for the thoughtful comments.

Yes, I seem to have gone off colour. Must be a phase I'm going through. I think it stems from setting my camera for b&w before I head out, so that I start viewing the world for that. I did some colour the other day at the botanics, but soon switched back. Maybe some will appear in time.

I also like that edge-of-building-up-to-sky shot, so might dig it out.

I think I've put too many abstract rock shots towards the end, so I might put the Davie lamp on and dig them out.

Pete once kindly said my work looked as if it came from someone who has not been taught photography, and who is not afraid to experiment. I'd be happy if that were the case.. Why not, as you put it, "try anything and be daring"? We need more daring in the world! The truth is, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but feel compelled to do it.

Talking of @Pete Askew - where is the auld bugger?

 

[Steve Boykin]

Wow Rob these are just absolutely stunning. Are some of them taken with the Merrills? Not that the camera really matters, the compositions are just fantastic.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Steve. There are images from quite a few cameras: the three Merrills, the Fuji XE1 and x100, some film shots from the Konica Hexar AF, a Mamiya C330s and RB67 Pro SD. I've since sold the Fujis, preferring instead to use fixed-lens cameras, for what reason I know not.

Glad you like em!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

@Tom Dunne - edge-of-building-up-to-sky shot now included (near the end).

Some other tweaks. Happy now.

 

[Pete Askew]

Talking of @Pete Askew - where is the auld bugger?

Oi! Not so much of the old, sunshine!

Been in Athens and not had a chance to catch up yet.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

And did you bring your own Athena with you? Any holiday snaps, or was it all work?

 

[Pete Askew]

Mostly work but she was in most of the same meetings. So there are a few snaps. Mostly in dark tavernas!