fine art nudes?

So, how did the next session go? I don't know why people will pose for free in the nude but as the documentary "Naked States" showed, there are lots and lots who will. Most seemed pretty normal. Surprisingly, one of the places he had the most trouble was with the biker people at Sturgis.

Also most of his pictures were great and some were stunning. One of things that I thought was apparent in his photography was that he liked people. Some were pretty people and some weren't but most of the pictures seemed to show beauty.
 
I've done a considerable number of nudes over the years... nude photography is considerably more work and takes alot of practice. The two biggest influences on your finished product is correctly lighting for tall the curves involved and the subjects degree of "comfortableness". If the subject is not relaxed, it's difficult at best.

Good Luck!!
 
I've always respected Nude Photography as a fine art form, as long as it's not doing blatantly sexual... Nudes can even reflect a kind of physical pleasure, through facial expressions and pose.

I'm only 16, but I have done two nude shots (I can never release them, they are of girls my age, and I don't want to get nabbed for child porn) but they have always been in a very tasteful context... For example, I have one with a girl laying on a black formika surface (Little rig I built) lit dimly, with a fan underneath it (out of frame) to blow her hair upwards, so i could blur it a little with a timed exposure... Fireplace in the background, of course :wink:

Too bad too. I think that is one of my best portraits, and because of retarded US law, I can't show it to anyone but my closest friends.
 
Well shutterbug, its not porno unless they are doing a sexual act or you blatently focused on the sexual organs of the model. Which it sounds like you didn't. If your wondering there have been other photographers that have done underage nudes with great success, check Jock Sturges and Sally Mann. Both have had their troubles with a more conservative america in the past but both prevailed.
It doesn't sound like you specifically want to do this as a profession, but others have in the past and been very successful at it.
 
I have been giving some serious thought to going down the road of some fine art nudes. I must admit that the PhotoSig recomendation is helping with some questions I had. However it seems that there is alot of what seems to "border" on the edge of porn there.
 
I would imagine that Shutterbug would need modle release forms for thsoe images, and seeing how they are under age, that means the parents would need to sign a release form,... so without those, even if he wanted to, he couldnt release them.
 
Just an old timer's observation here, but nudity and crudity are not synonyms, and a picture can have any purpose.

Nudes can be meant to arouse, shock, embarrass, inflame, inform, entertain or stimulate. A successful nude portrait presents the image that the photographer and model intended to present.

You can have a fully clothed model who comes across as lacking in taste or class simply by the arrangemet of her clothes and the expression on her face. You can have a nude model whose demeanor screams class. A The combination of composition, timing, presentation, lighting and expression determine what effect the image has on the viewer.

The ultimate test is to review the nude shots and make sure that the impression they present to the viewer is the impression you intended.

Good Luck.
 
deb said:
Just an old timer's observation here, but nudity and crudity are not synonyms, and a picture can have any purpose.

Nudes can be meant to arouse, shock, embarrass, inflame, inform, entertain or stimulate. A successful nude portrait presents the image that the photographer and model intended to present.

You can have a fully clothed model who comes across as lacking in taste or class simply by the arrangemet of her clothes and the expression on her face. You can have a nude model whose demeanor screams class. A The combination of composition, timing, presentation, lighting and expression determine what effect the image has on the viewer.

The ultimate test is to review the nude shots and make sure that the impression they present to the viewer is the impression you intended.

Good Luck.

Well said.
 
While on the forum asking about pano's, I had to open the messages about nudes. We men all like nudes, right? The question of what is the difference between porn and art is interesting. Until retiring I worked on newspapers in Oregon ... and now live in Queensland, near the beach. In the states, the Jackson woman flashed her breast on TV and 500,000 people complained to the feds. A woman's breast, for god's sake! Live in nearly any other country and women are either covered from head to toe or on the beach wearing half a bikini, if that. A woman's body is art. What is done with it photographically can either be erotic or degrading. Each of us has his/her own defination of that those topic cover. It is interesting to me, however, to see the typical narrow, conservitive mindedness of the American male remains strong. Both the US and Australia were first populated from Europe by boat people ... the religious minded arrived in the US and the convicts came to Australia. What a difference there is today in mind-sets.
I'll stick to panoramic landscapes!
 
bshearer said:
I would imagine that Shutterbug would need modle release forms for thsoe images, and seeing how they are under age, that means the parents would need to sign a release form,... so without those, even if he wanted to, he couldnt release them.

Yeah, that was one of the problems... Her parents didn't want to sign off on a release, even though it was art, and non-profit. It sucks having your best portrait under lock and key.
 
I'm a big fan of nekkid folks, and I do like the nude photography done by Mann, Sturges, and Callahan, but overall I find most fine art nude photography to be pretty cheeseball. I think part of it is that I rarely see something new and exciting (it an artful way at least :twisted: ).

For a great example (cheesy nudes) of what I'm talking about, search for "Leonard Nimoy Photography". That's right, it's Spock!!! :alien:
 

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