Just starting out. Don't be too cruel.

toastydeath · Oct 15, 2006

That makes sense.

I like a lot of photographs that, for one reason or another, are very disturbing to some people. So mabye it's just that particular asthetic showing through. It would be cool to experement with the concept to come up with 'grotesque' framing. Perhaps not only employing that, but combining angles to make the person look like they're missing arms or legs with slightly stressful facial expressions.

It mostly grates on my nerves when it's a nude/fetish shot, though. Because I can't tell if they just want to see more naked bodies in sexual poses, for which I would direct them to the internet, or if it's truly something they find off. One of them I can understand, the other is just creepy.

mysteryscribe · Oct 15, 2006

Now that you mention it I find texas chainsaw massacre much more pornographic than anything I've seen on the net.

Nudes even erotic nudes do not have to be pornographic at all. I am reminded of andrew wythe's (probably spelled wrong) Helga series.

Modern nudes that were in their own way erotic as heck but not at all pornographic. The prolab I used to deal with gave me a big time lecture once about what was porno and what was art. As if THEY knew. The supreme court can't even figure it out but some lab tech can.

I once drove a hearse, no not as a job I owned one. I wasn't always an old man. So I parked this hearse outside a police station when I was making some picture for them years and years ago. I was out all night for some reason, it was the early seventies. One of the cops found a broken maniken behind a retail store. He put it in the back of my hearst covered it with a sheet and then used a bottle of cheap catsup on the sheet.

The maniken had a cheap blonde bimbo wig. It scared the devil out of me. It was what I couldn't see that scared me. All that cutsup and the maniken had parts missing as well. Fortunately that kind of joke only happened once.

So yes there might be a ghoulish series there and you might make your rep... no such thing as bad publicity.

Efergoh · Oct 17, 2006

With regard to the light switch, I'm going to buck the trend. I think it should stay right where it is. I think it is needed. It lends a sense of space to the photo. Without it, the girl is just a bimbo in limbo.

toastydeath · Oct 17, 2006

Either way, it's just as lit as her face is - which creates a problem. While I won't shy away from stuff in the background to give depth to the whole thing, I'm going to be more careful how i point my lights.