@jocasta If you had seen me scrabbling around on the floor with a lamp with a cord too short and trying to position a homemade reflector you would wonder how on earth I did this! this was the only frame in 70 that had a decent composition and didn't have 'objects' in the background!
Now had Van Gogh been a photographer this is what he might have come up with.There is a great stillness about this shot that transcends time. A fav. (I've just noticed the comment above ref Van Gogh - so I'm not the only one).
the shallower depth (of field, and of subject) paired with that fairly drastic lighting bring out a lot of character here. your images so far (im viewing in reverse chronological) generally seem to have a lingering, but not uncomplementary, veil of...psychosis (maybe the most accurate word, for those familiar with such individuals or art). but thats to say, psychosis proper---not fantastical renderings or social misappropriations.
im not sure if those van gogh comments above acted as a catalyst to crystallizing my growing perceptions, but there is surely something otherly about your technical preferences in these, something more rooted in a philosophy of life experience than some mundane idea of divorced artistic taste. i hope that is not an offensive notion (or, for that matter, inappropriate content for posting).
@kali66 apologies; i write as i speak, so things come out windingly and lacking the aural accoutrements that help one discern each idea from the next. (or i could take that as another half-veiled reference/joke about mental otherliness. im just a paranoid fuck, pay no mind.)
Great shot.
im not sure if those van gogh comments above acted as a catalyst to crystallizing my growing perceptions, but there is surely something otherly about your technical preferences in these, something more rooted in a philosophy of life experience than some mundane idea of divorced artistic taste. i hope that is not an offensive notion (or, for that matter, inappropriate content for posting).