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
Creating ghostly nude photographs using Photoshop should be relatively easy. It is if you have planned ahead. Setting the camera on a tripod and taking a photograph of the empty scene and then adding a nude model means that you can overlay the two images and then adjust the opacity to create your ghost.
With the expansion of the internet and the democratization of the image creating process thanks to digital photography nothing is left to the imagination in a lot of fetish photography.
Do you need to be an exhibitionist to be a nude model?
Between glamour photos and the more formal naked figure photography lies erotic, documentary and personal photography. Are these pictures erotica, art or porn?
It 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.
Looking at the future of photography is the still photograph nearing the end of its life?
Nude art or erotic art?. They may appear to be very similar genres. Here are a couple of simple definitions:
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.
Millions 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.
It 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.