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I did this several years ago, but I've not completely decided if I like this or not. What do you think?

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This is a unique composition, and I like it. Borders on "bad n'ked" but it's not. Forces you to "consider" it, which makes it more engaging than your run of the mill nude. The tiles don't have a lot of contrast, so I don't find them distracting at all. Nice work.
 
Helen is probably right but as a man, wow, wonderful. Tile? What tile? Just kidding. For what it is I think you got it very close to right. The chair in a shower not sure about. Background tile lines probably not be the best for this although it depends on if you have a theme going or something like that. Pose is very sensual. Jim
 
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Thanks for the comments everyone. I actually feel the same way, which is why I have a love-loathe relationship with this photo.

This was taken at a workshop, and the host had originally setup a straightforward seated nude. I couldn't move things around too much, but I wanted a more dramatic pose, which I am happy with. But, the lighting and background frustrate me. It is not in a shower, but rather an acute corner of an industrial building.
 
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I think the part that strikes me as slightly 'off' is the color. There is a bit of a red tint to the tines - perhaps the result of autobalance or something?

There is something about the variation in highlights and color of her skin that I find a bit distracting. I'd almost suggest that this could be more interesting in black and white, without that distraction. Not sure if that would work much better though.

How was the lighting set up? Relatively straight on, with the walls acting as bounce? I think the shot also suffers from relatively flat lighting over all (which sounds like it was out of your control?)
 
Brian Legge said:
How was the lighting set up? Relatively straight on, with the walls acting as bounce? I think the shot also suffers from relatively flat lighting over all (which sounds like it was out of your control?)
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Very perceptive. The lighting was a single beauty dish dead center. I pushed the chair back to get a little bounce, but not nearly what I had hoped for. This was originally a JPEG, which can be the only source of the red tone.
 
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Its a Good Photo, I have no problems with it
though to my Eye
and this is PURELY SUBJECTIVE on my Part
it Lacks moving into the 'Art House' Realm
more Commercial Feel ...
like peeking through a Playboy or Penthouse Pix

Cheers- H
 
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I think this not so 'attractive', not eye candy at all. The soles of the feet, the widening of the natal cleft, the uncomfortable pose in an unreliable chair, and that mould almost make this an anti-nude. But then I was never much interested in my older brother's babe magazines.
 
I think the pose is nice, but the directors chair and the (what looks like) locker-room walls are really distracting. I think her on a simple black background with the same lighting or directional lighting would be so much more appealing in my opinion. I agree with Helen, I also prefer the artistic nude over playboy.. I hope that doesn't make me less of a man ;)
 
helenhill said:
it Lacks moving into the 'Art House' Realm
more Commercial Feel ...
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You're right. I think I was expecting more, hoping for more, than what the lighting and setting provided. Sometimes my photographic imagination is better than--well, my male imagination.

I have a love/loathe relationship with this image, and haven't ever sought a critique in the five years since I took it. I hate that it didn't turn out the way i had imagined, but perhaps I still like it because it is eye candy. I only wish that I could redo this same pose again. The pose and chair seem to have tremendous potential, but as I was once told, "having potential means failure to be realized."

The good news is, I can change it to B&W and then it will be artistic.
 
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This image reminds me that, of all the things I've done in my life, needing a director's chair in the shower never was one of them. :)

Aside from the erotic nature of the subject matter, I find the lighting too harsh. There's some kind of unsettling, mottled detail in the model's back, and bottoms of her feet, that distracts from the erotic effect. As if a softening filter, and better lighting, could have helped.

~Joe
 
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