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implied nude & standard portrait for c & c
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Here are a couple of implied nude shots for c & c –
Standard portrait
Thanks for checking.
I’m afraid It just looks too much like the model is trying to hide her breasts. I think the shot would have been as effective if she had clothes on. Number 3 for me, gorgeous expression – maybe a bit of fill in the fourth.
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I’m afraid It just looks too much like the model is trying to hide her breasts. I think the shot would have been as effective if she had clothes on. Number 3 for me, gorgeous expression – maybe a bit of fill in the fourth.
Thanks for commenting. The reason I took those pictures was from an interest in how skintones look in natural light coming from an open window. Hence the comparative darkness of them. Regardless of whether they work or not (for anybody else) I think they would be less successful as photographs if the skintones were replaced with clothes.
They were from a set where some were clothed and some were not. The poses in the clothed v unclothed were very different and not that interchangeable imo.
If the model had been clothed then that pose (shot 1 + 2) would not have occurred to me to shoot. It is a fairly standard implied nude pose that has been seen before but to say that it would work better if the model were clothed makes no sense to me.
I have shot artistic nude a few times before and with this session I think the overall intent was to convey how the state of nakedness can give an air of vulnerability and openness (especially from a male perspective when the subject is a female model). I think there is a distinct change in facial expressions between the clothed and unclothed shots too (whether any of that comes across to a viewer is another matter) but it would have been a different story/different photoshoot if it had been a fully clothed shoot. Thanks again for checking/commenting.
Absolutely understand where you are coming from. I have to admit – I did need you to spell it out for me. :? I didn’t realise it was more an exercise in lighting.
Hi Gerard.
Ok.. firstly number 4… Gorgeous! Above all else, what a fantastic expression caught beuatifully. I think it could be better technically and compositionally, but sod that, the mood of the piece is fab!
Number 3, almost, just a bit “Nose” for me.
1 and 2, lighting interesting indeed, just the composition and exp[ression don’t work for me.
Put the expression of 4 into 1 and it’s a cracker.
Si
I have to say I like them all Gerard, but particularly 2 and 4. Carrie is very central in number 2, and whereas that normally is not a recipe for success, in my opinion it works a treat here – probably due to the balance created by the background vase and pillow? The lighting looks to have been quite difficult (as I know from experience using natural light at Randalstown), but you have coped very well indeed. Number 1 could possibly have been improved with less space at the top?
The tones in them all are superb.Ross
Great to see someone pushing the boundaries (in every sense). I really like the tones you achieved in both 1 & 2 (care to share your process).
– Thorsten.
hi Gerald,
I love 2 & 4.
Out of these 4 is my fav. great facial expression, but I think the skin texture is a bit rough.
All in all, there all nice shhots.
Very much as on the previous ones you posted us, I find the composition too centered. Especially on the second one as it is an horizontal, there is too much space on each sides. Sorry.
The portrait by the window works much better, nice expression and lighting.Thanks all for checking and commenting – Luc I sometimes prefer the more cinematic/horizontal kind of crop – I know its non standard but thats just the crop I prefer for some shots. The skin texture on 4 is intentionally un-smoothed I think it gives it a more realistic / intimate kind of feel – that was what I was aiming for with that one anyway. Thanks again for checking /commenting.
Gerard, I don’t know enough about this type of photography (or any type if I’m to be
totally honest) to really comment constructively on the images here, other than to say
I really like the ‘look’ of them. The lighting in the first three is beautifully subtle and your
finishing looks fantastic – wonderful skin tones. I also like the slight toning in the first.
My favourite of these is probably the third, my only quibble being the fact that the nose
breaks through the line of her right cheek which, with the light coming from behind,
seems to have left a tiny halo.
I love the expression in the portrait, though there’s just not enough light there to make
the image really pop.Rob.
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