Ben Roberts
February 12th, 2008
I find myself going back to Ben Robert’s Serene series relentlessly for inspiration. He draws me in with his use of space and gentle light.
(Photograph: Ben Roberts)
I find myself going back to Ben Robert’s Serene series relentlessly for inspiration. He draws me in with his use of space and gentle light.
(Photograph: Ben Roberts)
Now I want to take a nap.
It’s beautiful.
That lighting looks like it could quite possibly be “sexy early morning light.” Beautiful! My next photography project is to simply take a roll of film specifically with composition in mind, and a roll specifically with light in mind. Oh the freedom! Thanks for the inspiration.
The photos are all great…but none of them makes me think “serene”…actually the people all seem quite tense.
This reminds me of the beginning of CSI when the crime is committed. It is only missing the blood and bullets on the floor.
Dana, exactly.
hey thanks for the feature. i’ll tell you a little about this image (hopefully it won’t ruin it for you?)
anyway. the guy in the picture is my friend oli. we did a 24hr road trip to paris to deliver some architectural examples to the headquarters of the fashion house ‘chloe’. oli’s auntie designs and executes interiors for chloe stalls.
this was shot in the chloe building. we had dropped off the samples and were heading out. i try to always keep a camera with me at all times, because you just don’t know when an interesting shot might present itself to you. i try to collect images and then sequence them together. the ’serene’ gallery was collated in this way. the images were shot over the space of around a year or so. some were pulled from commissioned shoots, some from fashion tests, and some were out takes from documentary projects; and then some are just completely unplanned photos/opportunities, like this one.
it was shot with a mamiya 7, fuji colour neg (160 NPS), f4 at 1/8 of a second. it was morning light (well noticed michelle!). I didn’t have a tripod with me, so rested the camera on a tabletop and shot on timer. oh - and i always use a handheld lightmeter to get the exposures spot on.
i hope this hasn’t spoilt the shot for you, but i figure that maybe as photographers you would find the story behind the image interesting?
cheers
ben