Blue Dress

Slow shutter motion study.

This great shot makes me think about the good old days here on PN, me discovering your work done with similar technique.

It is a matter of the phase of forward step, and being prepared to capture that at right moment that gives this delicious one-foot-on-the-ground effect. The foot and hand... where is the rest... pondering that minor mystery is good entertainment, a break from the fixed stationary captures being the majority around here. Here the graffiti on the wall adds to this dreamscape, if I may call this gem being such. My respect for your unstopping creativity and mastering both the motion blur as well the processing skills you have shown us.

Swaying  bleu dress :).

Very nice Gordon, I like this a lot it's like she is having some kind of bizarre sleep walk. It might be better with a bird in it, just for ratings sake?

great image

This is fun, and works despite the overall blur in addition to subject motion blur.  I keep experimenting with slow shutter speeds for people pix and it never produces good results for me.

She is in the move with her leg  and hand  but what a mystery  with her head?  that "rested" in the window...lol. Only a wizard like you can creat this technic! I'm still smiling,  so funny, Photo Nut! ,you are something!!

Beautiful work. I am a big fan of motion photography and your work. Great capture Gordon.

Beautiful work. I am a big fan of motion photography and your work. Great capture Gordon.

Gordon, the color is really wonderful. I like the movement of the legs and the way her skirt and face seem to be morphing into the graffiti on the wall

Wonderful !!!

Regards,

Mário

It goes by, one frame to the next, carefully and precisely. And then sometimes the regulating mechanism fouls up and misses a sprocket and the the clear-cut division of perceptions is stretched and broken up. Then we're caught somewhere in the middle, between frames so to speak, where the certainties begin to disintegrate and lose shape, and formerly friendly and recognizeable forms spill out of their neat little boxes, escape their confining frames and leave us in doubt of the realities we took for granted. Society runs on established patterns, repeated and repeated again; it attempts to cast these constructs, axioms and ways of seeing things into perceptual concrete. It wants to tell us "get used to it", to become resigned to the fact that "that's the way things are." I guess it's up to the artist to throw a monkey wrench into the goddamn works and crack the dubious facade. It's either that or suffer a slow and lingering death from sheer boredom and creative inertia.

I like Jack's critique.  Reminds me of some of the best examples of Burroughs' cutup writing technique.

Markuu,

 

I remember those days fondly, when PN seemed all shiny and new and I could spend hours looking through the galleries.  I recall the first time I discovered your boats leaving the harbour series what a thrill that was.  These days the TRP pages bore me silly, which says more about me than the images presented I suppose. Thanks fore the visit always a pleasure to read your comments.

 

 

Simon,

 

Thanks, I think I need more than a mere bird can provide, maybe a bug and a boob.... I'll see what I can do.

 

Mike, Thanks

 

Anon,

 

Keep at it and keep good notes it is a numbers game.

 

Pnina,

 

Well yes she does appear to have lost her head :-)

 

Amir,

 

Thanks,

I enjoy very much your motion photos.

 

Tony,

 

That morphing of one thing into the other is a lot of fun to play with.

 

Mario, thanks!

 

Jack,

 

I wonder if the axiom of monkeys with typewriters can be applied to monkeys with wrenches ?  Your visits are on the short list of reasons I bother posting here, thanks.

 

Lex,

 

Thanks for dropping by to comment on Jack's words. Jack does serve up the best, both as a photographer and as a writer.

in various manner of style over the years some of your images appear to me more as painting than photography. Here, the grotesque beauty of the “Blue Dress” lady reminds me of the work of Francis Bacon -- as if the image stands inspired and is nourished from the same artistic vein.  

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… beautifully said sensei!

Hi Carlos,

On occasion I do attempt to explore some of my images with the mind set of a painter, or at least the mind set which I imagine a painter to have since I do not paint. Motion studies in particular seem to lend themselves to a more painterly approach.

While Francis Bacon had not come to mind ( despite my being fond of his work ) I had felt that there was something of the grotesque in this image and I am glad to read that it struck you similarly. One of the aspects of these motions studies is the way in which the subject appears to be pulled out of the background and melds back into the surroundings. In that respect I do get a similar feel from some of Bacon's paintings such as http://pinkfreudian.tripod.com/at/fb4.html 

or   http://pinkfreudian.tripod.com/at/fb3.html

 

Thanks for the visit Carlos,  always a pleasure.

A marvelous and imaginative work. It provides a solid foundation upon which the imagination can build a towering narrative.

Sometimes I come across an image that strikes me, makes me look more closely, and satisfies that desire to see something that transcends the "run of the mill" (whatever the mill or the run of it is...).  This photograph (and many others in your portfolio) is such a photograph.  The blurred motion, that seemingly impossible backward arch, the flow of the dress, the juxtaposition against the brick wall and the graffitti, the splashes of complementary colors -- an oddity, but a "seen" oddity.  Sometimes all I can do is look at an image, recognize it as a kindred spirit of the type of work I appreciate and attempt to do, and think, "If I had taken this image I would be very proud of it, I would be very smitten with it."  I also find it interesting that just as I appreciate your work for its individuality and "off the beaten path" qualities, many of the photographers who have already commented on this are also among those whose work I seek out and appreciate.