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Today I read a comment that hurt me to my little artsy soul, and it went something like "I don't care about nude photography anymore because it's all the same."
To my artsy soul. There are many, many talented artists who pour their hearts into creating nude art photography which is totally and completely unlike anything you've ever seen.
The style most often associated with the art nude is the "classic" nude--one model on a black back drop, shot in black and white, often with dramatic "noir" lighting. How different can those be?
And that's just the classics. How else are good artistic nudes shot? On location, in nature, with body paint, in groups, underwater, in the rain, in the snow, on custom-built sets, in abandoned buildings, in bright light, in candle light, by flash, in blacklight! Let me count the ways...
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I hope the 50 images above give you a good idea of the diversity of the genre--like all art, there are mundane, boring copies of older mundane, boring works. There are ripoff artists. There are people who are just plain uninspired. But there are is also vibrant, original art. Enjoy.
To my artsy soul. There are many, many talented artists who pour their hearts into creating nude art photography which is totally and completely unlike anything you've ever seen.
The style most often associated with the art nude is the "classic" nude--one model on a black back drop, shot in black and white, often with dramatic "noir" lighting. How different can those be?
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And that's just the classics. How else are good artistic nudes shot? On location, in nature, with body paint, in groups, underwater, in the rain, in the snow, on custom-built sets, in abandoned buildings, in bright light, in candle light, by flash, in blacklight! Let me count the ways...
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I hope the 50 images above give you a good idea of the diversity of the genre--like all art, there are mundane, boring copies of older mundane, boring works. There are ripoff artists. There are people who are just plain uninspired. But there are is also vibrant, original art. Enjoy.
Catharsis and Creation
I had a really bad night a couple nights ago, which I handled by making a cutout image expressing art theft against me by someone who has enough community support that I don't dare make the problem public. I tried going through "proper channels" and was basically told that I have no reason to complain. It's been really frustrating to be unable to handle it properly and unwilling to handle it subversively. I don't think shit talking would do anyone any good, and that gets into that whole sinking-to-their-level thing.
Anyway, I'd been thinking about doing a not-for-public-consumption art piece to get my feelings out and finally did so. I do ac
Natures!
I spent the day at Seaworld earlier this week and I took about 300 pictures over the day, several of which are really decent. Standard snapshots of dolphin tricks... meh. Night shots of whalesurfing... win. On manual focus, because you know... I'm a showoff. And because shooting fast-moving whales in dark water at night, with a telephoto, is not something that autofocus is really made for.
I have a couple shots of Id to post first.
Hedgehog and fish.
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I is singular.
I'm sad that I was called so many colorful names this week in response to posting a stamp stating that "I do not enjoy being called flesh. kthx."
"I" in my usage refers only to me. I (just me) will continue to express my beliefs, and while I understand that sometimes they will upset people, I hope that in the future my watchers will respect my right to have opinions which are different from theirs (or not). I have been advised to hide all the negative comments left, but I won't. While I do not find their judgments of me to be accurate, each of them has the same right to disagree with me as I have with them. I will not host a flame war, and I
Stock!
Jonathan Coulton challenges his listeners to make their art available under creative commons agreements. "What's the worst that would happen?" he asks.
Unfortunately the worst that would happen is the few print sales I get would be dispersed between me and everyone else who marketed my art derivatives, and then I'd have to get a day job and stop photographing 52 weeks a year.
But I've started to photograph stuff other than what I market, and I've decided that the other stuff can be licensed freely without the world coming to a halt. On this note, some of my photography on this account will be moved from whatever it's in now into stock. I wo
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Perhaps not all nudes are the same. However 97.8% of those uploaded to DA certainly all look the same.
Also one must take into account where the "artist" is in their own particular trip along the path of discovery. Which of course might explain why most seem or appear similar.
When Michelangelo was asked how he sculpted such life like pieces, he replied: "I simply take away everything that's not the form I want."
So it's true in nude portraits, perhaps we're all learning to see exactly what we don't want in an artistic nude photo.
Also one must take into account where the "artist" is in their own particular trip along the path of discovery. Which of course might explain why most seem or appear similar.
When Michelangelo was asked how he sculpted such life like pieces, he replied: "I simply take away everything that's not the form I want."
So it's true in nude portraits, perhaps we're all learning to see exactly what we don't want in an artistic nude photo.