Maybe with x-ray film. And if only illuminated with x-rays.
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Maybe with x-ray film. And if only illuminated with x-rays.
Agreed here Kirk.
It is easy to photograph the pretty people that have made it a habit to pose for photographers aka "models".
I photograph a good amount of creative people from all ages/sizes and it's a bit harder to get them to the confidence level to shed most or all.
Since I photograph creatives, some of them photograph me. Has never been an issue.
Social norm attractiveness doesn't play, attractiveness as a subject (matter) does. And pulling that out of an individual is where we differentiate our individual work.
YMMV,
Cheers,
As an example of photographing pretty people in front of pretty backgrounds, Kim Weston is making a living at it. I just can't understand plunking a nude model in front of a cliff face and somehow that's "art". Especially those images that have the model contorted in some weird manner to match the crevices of the rock face. Naturally the breasts are front and center. Just voyeuristic schlock imho.
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Eric Rose
www.ericrose.com
I don't play the piano, I don't have a beard and I listen to AC/DC in the darkroom. I have no hope as a photographer.
Didn't pose but was photographed by my father in a stream in southern New Mexico at the age of 5. The photo appeared in either Life, Look or Saturday Evening Post around 1953. Fortunately, not frontal.
When my late wife was dying of cancer, she planned her own memorial service. I pulled out an old photo of her taken when she was about 18 months old. She was walking away from the camera, reaching up to hold her Dad's hand. She was wearing only a pair of shoes. I asked if she wanted that photo displayed at the memorial service. She replied, "If you show that picture, I will HAUNT you!"
Keith
With all due respect to those who shoot nudes, I myself have never figured out what I would want the photographs to say, so didn't bother to raise the nerve to go about asking for subjects to pose for my camera (or me)...
Some people I know who shoot maybe seem to like to control nude figures, but that's a psychological factor I just don't understand, but power to them...
Photos by Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock are nice, but the elements are like apples and oranges with nudes in nature...
I suspect many photogs really want to titillate themselves or others, but as i have pointed out to commercial clients that if you use nudity or suggestive imagery for selling something, you only have a market of those that find the model attractive, and will repel those who don't...
I guess one thing that might work for me is if I photographed those I didn't find attractive, but there was an honesty about who they really were nude... (Sometimes when I am out in public where I see strange to me bodies under their clothing, I am curious as what they might photograph like, but not ready to get near that project... ) :-0
Steve K
Uh, could we use an anamorphic lens... ?
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
Many years ago I did some nude selfies, long bevor the selfie's time!
But now in my age I think its better not!
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