Are you still my sweetheart? Or is the dream of London dead?

[sovay]

Barry Lyndon, eat your heart out.

Comments

[nineweaving]

Gorgeous chiaroscuro.

Nine

[sovay]

Gorgeous chiaroscuro.

Thank you! It was an experiment. Photography by spatch.

[nineweaving]

They look like paintings by Schalken.

Nine

[strange_complex]

This was my first thought too.

[sovay]

This was my first thought too.

spatch, get into this thread, you're only being compared to one of the greatest candlelight portraitists of Western art history!

(Thank you.)

[spatch]

Well, shucks, thanks. I am grateful for the model and for the fact that the phone's camera tends to get all, well, like that in low light.

[pameladean]

Those are lovely, in many ways like paintings.

P.

[sovay]

Those are lovely, in many ways like paintings.

Thank you! It was an impulse and I think it paid off.

[poliphilo]

Puts me in mind of the work of Gottfried Schalken, the painter- about whom Sheridan Lefanu wrote a story you're probably aware of...

[sovay]

Puts me in mind of the work of Gottfried Schalken, the painter- about whom Sheridan Lefanu wrote a story you're probably aware of...

I hope we have better luck than its characters!

[aurumcalendula]

These are gorgeous!

[sovay]

These are gorgeous!

Thank you!

[watervole]

Very atmospheric!

[sovay]

Very atmospheric!

Thank you!

[selkie]

Barry Lyndon’s got nothin’ on you, gentlethem.

Damn.

A post-coffee edit, very much still hewing to Daaaaamn, but the candlelight as a sole illumination source really points up how it would have ever-so-plausibly worked. "Oh, that guy, over there, sure." *squints* "Definitely a guy!"
Cue meditation on art/gender/work and costume/stereotypes of visual shorthand/und so weiter which I would go into if not for capitalism.
*hugs*

[sovay]

Barry Lyndon’s got nothin’ on you, gentlethem.

Thank you.

Damn.

*hugs, but also preens*

Cue meditation on art/gender/work and costume/stereotypes of visual shorthand/und so weiter which I would go into if not for capitalism.

Fortunately, you have a novel for that. In your . . . copious capitalism-free time . . . shipping fortune?

[selkie]

You should preen, goddammit, and I am very glad people tell you so now on the internet. When I bother stealing a hottie, I COME CORRECT.

Shipping fortune.

[cmcmck]

These are stunning!

[sovay]

These are stunning!

Thank you! I wasn't sure they would work at all because of the ambient light from the neighbors, but the candle came through.

*

[minoanmiss]

You're WAY handsomer. These are awesome examples of photography as art!

Re: *

[sovay]

You're WAY handsomer. These are awesome examples of photography as art!

Thank you! I really like how they came out.

[julian]

Goodness.

[sovay]

Goodness.

Thank you.

[sartorias]

Wow, that top one especially!

[sovay]

Wow, that top one especially!

spatch is responsible for the compositions.

[davidgillon]

Wow.

I got nothing more.

But wow.

[sovay]

But wow.

Thank you.

[skygiants]

NICE

[sovay]

NICE

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

Simply gorgeous portraits.

[sovay]

Simply gorgeous portraits.

Thank you. I really like them.

[thawrecka]

Excellent use of light! And very well composed shots, at that.

[sovay]

Excellent use of light! And very well composed shots, at that.

Thank you! partly on spatch's behalf.

[thisbluespirit]

Those pics are very cool!

And coincidentally, I am about halfway through Barry Lyndon as I type! (Well, obv am not watching and typing because that would be a bit much for me.)

[sovay]

Those pics are very cool!

Thank you!

And coincidentally, I am about halfway through Barry Lyndon as I type!

Hah! How are you finding it?

[thisbluespirit]

It's very long! I started it on Monday and I still haven't finished it! BUt it is beautiful enough to maybe justify that it stands around admiring its own beauty so much instead of getting a move on with things. XD

(I do like it, I've been a bit tired/ill, though & film-watching is hard - I should probably have waited for a different time. But I think the next session must get me to the end, or nearly!! I am also admiring it and looking forward to the end credits when I can find out who the narrator is whose voice I definitely recognise. I could do IMBD but that would be cheating.)

[sovay]

BUt it is beautiful enough to maybe justify that it stands around admiring its own beauty so much instead of getting a move on with things.

A totally legitimate approach if you ask me.

(I am glad that even if it is tiring to watch films, it's not completely impossible.)

[thisbluespirit]

I was fine with it on Monday, but by the time it was Friday and it was still going on and on, I was beginning to wonder if I would ever be free of it or it was like some S&S thing where I was trapped with an everlasting 18th C painting in disguise as a period drama. I already think of it more fondly now it's finally over! \o/ I'll probably watch it again one day & it'll be better when I know what to expect and can do it in less sessions.

(And the narrator was of course Michael Hordern, which did think it must be, but I was second-guessing myself right to the end. XD)