Each year Blackpool hosts a gay pride festival, and this year was to exception. As a result I have a number of portraits that I'll be putting over the next five or six days. Of the ones I'll be putting up, this is probably one of the weakest (and is definitely Libby's least favourite) but there's still something about it I like.
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12.55pm on 17/5/08
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mix feelings here as well. It is sad,it is fake, it is cold ,the colours doesn´t help but the eyes tell me I am doing the wrong writing....so...it is a good pic! :)
interesting to look at (from a distance). i like the way you captured the look of aloof, not just a smiling clown(?). but truly this is a bit scary.
comment by Mark at 10:36 PM (GMT) on 19 May, 2008
LOL...funny how you get so few comments on shots like these, Dave. Says a thousand words about your audience methinks. I Think this is a fine fine photograph and, as you say, micha puts it well.
I love seeing this side of you - and not just because it plays against the type that your fanbase feels so comfortable with. I love the fact that you'll still put yourself out there in that way. Brilliant portrait.
Each year Blackpool hosts a gay pride festival, and this year was to exception. As a result I have a number of portraits that I'll be putting over the next five or six days. Of the ones I'll be putting up, this is probably one of the weakest (and is definitely Libby's least favourite) but there's still something about it I like.
camera
lens
focal length
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
flash
image quality
RAW converter
cropped?
Canon 1Ds Mark II
EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
200mm
f/5.6
1/125
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
100
580EX II
RAW
C1 Pro
1x1
mix feelings here as well. It is sad,it is fake, it is cold ,the colours doesn´t help but the eyes tell me I am doing the wrong writing....so...it is a good pic! :)
micha: well put.
That is one scary looking clown...not the kind you'd want at a child's party. I love his expression.
Looks like a clown from the guild in A-M (Discworld)
Did this person know you took the portrait? There is somthing about those eyes and that strange smirk... looking forward to seeing the others.
In a way, it reminds me Cindy Sherman's clowns. A bit scary and sad.
Thanks all.
interesting to look at (from a distance). i like the way you captured the look of aloof, not just a smiling clown(?). but truly this is a bit scary.
LOL...funny how you get so few comments on shots like these, Dave. Says a thousand words about your audience methinks. I Think this is a fine fine photograph and, as you say, micha puts it well.
I love seeing this side of you - and not just because it plays against the type that your fanbase feels so comfortable with. I love the fact that you'll still put yourself out there in that way. Brilliant portrait.