Mark Hampton
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Hunt for the last people - M Hampton
this is pushing a new direction for the work Hunt for the last people. A more intimate portrait space rather than the wider people images.
thanks for looking
Hi
This portrait is quite intriguing, nearly frightening, looks like a zombie or a witch...This look is freezing. The post prod on the picture is as usual exceptional and conveys the strangeness as well as the initial model and pose. The form and the content.
Well, how do you get on with the weather these days...
Heard one year ago "oh! you know, it never snow in Britain"
Better stay inside with a warm blanket, lightroom or Photoshop or even a good old movie and a good old glass of uisge beatha, then! (I don't know if it's well spelled)
This is pushing a new direction for the work Hunt for the last people. A more intimate portrait space rather than the wider people images.
Don't get the pic?
"Whiskey is a shortened form of usquebaugh, which English borrowed from Gaelic (Irish uisce beatha and Scottish uisge beatha). This compound descends from Old Irish uisce, "water", and bethad, "of life" and meaning literally "water of life". It meant the same thing as the Latin aqua vītae which had been applied to distilled drinks since early 14th century. Other early spellings include usquebea (1706) and iskie bae (1583). In the Irish Annals of Clonmacnoise in 1405, the first written record of whiskey appears describing the death of a chieftain at Christmas from "taking a surfeit of aqua vitae". In Scotland, the first evidence of whisky production comes from an entry in the Exchequer Rolls for 1494 where malt is sent "To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aquavitae".[1]"WIKIPEDIA
Ben,
Right click, save as.. or goto photobucket - look for hiedroom and its there!
easy.. Thanks for stopping by!
And as you'll notice from Mark's spelling, Whisky is Scottish and Whiskey is Irish.
It's a pity we can't describe the soft sound of uisge beatha on a written forum
Mike
this is pushing a new direction for the work Hunt for the last people. A more intimate portrait space rather than the wider people images.
Don't get the pic?
Mark,
So funny! I believe Ben is saying that He doesn't understand of "get" the meaning of your picture! Or were you being facetious. In any case, there's humor enough in the missing picture. Either the picture itself or my dear friend, Ben, is missing out!
Asher
Asher,
the clssic portrait leaves me cold... or I dont get it!... as to why... i don't like the units of measure they dont move beyond the surface...
Mark, I'll break every little part of respect you may have for me. I can't stand Whisky. I am a real girly thing. I like cider, Bass ale, white wine, (Belgian hand made beers as well), a bit of polish vodka (no mix) that's it. I drink spirit about once every 2 years. My husband is a real fan of Whisky, it's a classic Christmas gift he is making to other people in order to make them discover something unusual. Don't even talk about something outside the Scottish borders . I just remember the ones he loves are Glenfarclas and Dalmore...I don't know what it says about him. All that I remember is when I was in Scotland, the pubs that sells whisky advertised for the pure spring water available beside the whisky more importantly than the whisky itself. When you say - in France - that you add water to whisky people look at you as if you were a barbarian. They add coke in their "black and white".
I wish I had taken some pictures of the atmosphere in these pubs, it was fantastic... Old men singing, shouting. And don't even tell that you are French, all the rounds are yours!
Mark
nice! it immediately has such a strength- also gives a look of an older time when photography was new
love the shadow and light work on this
can you tell me who this picture portrait is-a small background
Charlotte-
I would certainly agree that there is much to be sought beyond the classic Hasselblad studio portrait.
You've captured the feeling of foreboding well enough in the brash transition from light to shadows. It looks like a frame capture from a 1930's piece of cine film.
I'll be interested to see more.
Can I make a suggestion? The focus should be on the nearer eye. I realise this is far more impressionist than a photo however my eye is led into the picture from the right and I see first a blob then an eye. It just jangles for me.
Ben,The point is that we as humans are trained to look to the eyes, from day one. It's the first part of a face we look to. As such in an image whether it be painting of photograph the same applies.
I think that the fact that focus stands on a very narrow stage, at a place that is not obvious, prevents us to look at the face, but rather to think shapes, and texture. It's funny how a simple shift in the regular way to focus on the eye for a portrait makes it different, barely not a portrait anymore.