Nude Self Portraits

[dostacos]

'BTW: Perhaps this could be the start of RFF's third book? Self-portraits...clothing optional!'


awright!
where's my banana??

😉

as long as it is OPTIONAL, now if I can find a nice santa suit I in :angel:

 

[x-ray]

a lot of the people on this forum ARE old enough to be my dad

I'm 57 and live in Tennessee. By Tennessee standards I could be your great grandfather ;<) Just trying to chear you up.

It sounds like you're ready to go. I've shot many sessions since college. I've come up with some really fine images and others have really stunk. I love shooting figure work but it's tough to get really fine images that pure art and aren't sexual.

Study the artists both painters and photographers. I'm extremely fortunate that I own an original Edward Weston nude in platinum and an Imogen Cunningham aswell. My wife and I also have a Sturgis and two platinum nudes by Kim Weston, the grandson of Edward. My wife is a painter and she has done a great deal of life drawing even though it's not what she normally paints. I plan to take a workshop with Kim Weston doing figure studies and platinum printing. As an art form the female and male figure is beautiful (except my figure).

As I said, I've done many sessions with both paid art school models and friends. I taught p[hotography at the university of TN for a while and had nude models for the class. I used both male and femal together and nixed black and whiite back in the early seventies.

If you want to work with friends or paid models the university, as mentioned, are excellent. I also found my best make models tat were modern dancers.

The most fun shoot after the fact was a shoot of a friend / art model that I did in college. My friend Pat(female) modeled for me and I painted her body with day glow paints. (Remember this is the 60's) I shot her with my M3 and Eftachrome (E3) under black light. I was chief photographer of the University of TN. publications and I convinced the editor to use it as a cover. He agreed and ran some stripes over her more private areas and it appeared as the cover of three volumes of the yearbook. I have copies and if I remember correctly we used it in my last year, 1971. Last year Pat found me after thirty five years. She is nurse in California and looked me up. What a great surprise. I hadn'r spoken with her since 71. She had never seen the pictures so I found the film and scanne dit and made som prints for her. The best part of the shoot was pulling off publishing a nude on the cover of the year book of a state university. No one ever said anything about it.

My advice, take your pictures and have some fun. Call a friend and make some with him or her too. Drink wine, laugh, take pictures and enjoy life! Life's too short not to have fun.

There are a couple of vintage nudes in my gallery and I will post the year book cover shots in the next week.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5045

 

[raid]

I will tomorrow have a posting about self-portraits of myself. Will I get many views?

 

[egpj]

Saw that somebody mentioned delta 100... I also like it's cousin FP4 125 very much. I also think that it would capture the skin tones very well while having a classic look to it.

As for the remote release.. you could use your boyfriend.

Anyway, play around with your idea and maybe shoot some digital shots first before you commit to the film project. Figure out what angles would make you look the best and exploit them.

Good luck.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

The one of the stripper at the carnival is the one I like best I think. I love nudes from the 60's and 70's...the models back then were never as stick thin as the models now.

 

[RJBender]

'BTW: Perhaps this could be the start of RFF's third book? Self-portraits...clothing optional!'


awright!
where's my banana??

😉

sorry...

R.J.

 

[goo0h]

116 posts on one thread in 24 hours has to be some kind of a record.

I hope this thread doesn't crash the server! 😱

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I will tomorrow have a posting about self-portraits of myself. Will I get many views?

Pull a Pete Rose and bet on 7.

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

I'm going to say right off that I haven't read the replies in this thread. I want to give you my true and un-influenced opinion.
No. I'm not going to do it. If I do, I'll feel bad about it later.
I'll just say this: if you have to ask, then you are not there. OK?

 

[Stephanie Brim]

You need to read the posts in this thread. That doesn't really answer any of my questions.

 

[x-ray]

I found the iimage from the yearbook cover and another from a 60's party. Honestly cant remember shooting at the party but I figure I was chemically altered at the time. I know it was a party from the other frames from the shoot. I'm certain I had fun!


http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5723

 

[IGMeanwell]

I found the iimage from the yearbook cover and another from a 60's party. Honestly cant remember shooting at the party but I figure I was chemically altered at the time. I know it was a party from the other frames from the shoot. I'm certain I had fun!


http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5723

Awesome ... that looks like a ton of fun!!!!

 

[x-ray]

I don't remember ;<)

Drink lots of wine and shoot pictures!

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5723

 

[raid]

Pull a Pete Rose and bet on 7.

Thanks for your support!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

You need to read the posts in this thread. That doesn't really answer any of my questions.

ok..............

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

You need to read the posts in this thread. That doesn't really answer any of my questions.

I know. And if over 130 posts in this thread haven't given you the answer, then you should look somewhere else. Like the DSM-IV. See Borderline

 

[IGMeanwell]

I don't remember ;<)

Drink lots of wine and shoot pictures!

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5723

X-Ray you have just put another addition to my "Things to do before I die" list... I am still young so there is still time 🙂

added:

#250
Find a model to pose for me using glowing paint and a black light

bumped up from #250 to #5 😀

 

[ywenz]

Wow 7 pages already and not a single nip yet? I wonder how many messages will the actual nudie pics bring in

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I know. And if over 130 posts in this thread haven't given you the answer, then you should look somewhere else. Like the DSM-IV. See Borderline

Um...*those* questions were answered long ago. If you read the post you'd know. Now I'm talking about lighting and film, and also what developers to use.

Seriously...if you don't want to be an ass about something just stay out of a thread. People who don't know me who act like *this* are the people who make me want to leave the internet completely.

I was *never* looking for psychiatric advice from *anyone* here. If you want to dispense that, go elsewhere. I'm doing this for art's sake. It will pull me out of depression because I'm finally doing something that I've wanted to do for a long time. I may or may not sell prints if things turn out good and that is why I asked about whether or not you'd buy. If you have any other questions about my mental status that are none of your business, please direct those things to a PM.

And yes, you can know that you've succeeded in offending me. Bravo.

 

[dany_nyc]

Wow, this is an active thread. As one of the few females here, I though I should put in my two cents. All these seven pages of answers aside, going back your original post, you wondered if you might be able to raise some cash by selling prints of these pictures. My girlfriend, a very good photographer, who has had photos published and shown in New York, does not make a living from her photography. She's made a lot more from shooting people's weddings and parties than from any of her own projects. Okay, she doesn't shoot nudes and maybe nudes are easier to sell. I'll admit I don't know.

But of course, you should go ahead and do the pictures. And try to sell them, too, by all means. You might be pleasantly surprised. I'm just saying that you shouldn't get your expectations up too high.