Between glamour photos and the more formal naked figure photography lies erotic, documentary and personal photography. Are these pictures erotica, art or porn?
Thinking About Nude Photography
Thinking about your creative nude photography is more important that knowing all about the technical side. This series of articles explores concepts and ideas
How to covers the technical stuff
The Concept – Take Better Photographs of Nudes
How to Photograph Nudes, Thinking About Nude PhotographyIt is a common misconception that better technique, better equipment or luck will help you take better photographs of nudes. It won’t, but good ideas will.
Future of Photography. Is the still photo a dying art?
Thinking About Nude PhotographyLooking at the future of photography is the still photograph nearing the end of its life?
Nude Art or Erotic Art?
Thinking About Nude PhotographyNude art or erotic art?. They may appear to be very similar genres. Here are a couple of simple definitions:
Erotica: Not nude?
Thinking About Nude PhotographyThe Beauty of the Erotic in a Facebook World
Erotica but not nude? A seductively clothed model can be much more erotically attractive than the completely naked figure. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to combine the erotic with the aesthetic.
Photographing Nudes – A Different Point of View
How to Photograph Nudes, Thinking About Nude PhotographyMillions of photos are taken from about five feet eight inches (1.75 m) above the ground because that’s the average persons eye line. Whether photographing fine art nudes, boudoir or glamour nudes it pays to look for a different point of view.
How To Take Better Nude Photographs
How to Photograph Nudes, Thinking About Nude PhotographyIt is easy to take better nude photographs. Anyone, even the best at something, can always get better at it. All you have to do is acquire more knowledge, practice, and maybe have a bit of inspiration.
The Nude in Photography
Thinking About Nude PhotographyThe nude female form elicits a number of, sometimes conflicting, potential responses from the viewer of an artwork. It can be seen as the depiction of a human being as a sex object, an anonymous manifestation of beauty or the nudity can be used to foreground aspects or themes within the picture. The most common criticism levelled at photography is that it simply imitates another art form.
Nude or Naked Portraits?
Nude Portraits, Portfolios, Thinking About Nude Photography, Twenty NudesThese nude and naked portraits are created with the help of many talented women. The finished images are a result of a collaboration between the photographer and subject rather than an imposition of a style on them. Some of the subjects are models but here you are projecting elements of their character and personality; they are part of the creative process and not merely a blank canvas on which to project my viewpoint.
But is it Fine Art Nude Photography?
Thinking About Nude PhotographyIt is very difficult to separate the artistic (fine art nude photography) of the nude from the erotic and the sexual.
When is a nude an attempt to produce a meaningful picture
and when is it merely a body displayed for erotic titillation?
Even the word artistic carries certain connotations. Many of the paintings that are now considered works of art by old masters were created for his Lordship to hang in his personal salon. In a later era it conjures up an image of a 1950s bloke in a Trilby accosting a gent with the words ‘Oy mate – want to buy some artistic postcards?’