nudes and sunsets

[Chaser]

Interesting, Chaser. Is that a flower on the hand (probably a daffodil?), and tape on the left leg?

Thanks for interest.
It is a bunch of baby bananas and what you think is tape is sharpie marks.....

 

[vladhed]

need to expand that list...

need to expand that list...

I did a count of photographs submitted to the 2006 edition of my workplace photoclub book. Fortunately nudes are just not allowed in this club - the motto being that if you can't stick it up on your cubical wall, you can't submit it to the book.

However of the 68 photos:
- 18 landscapes
- 8 macro shots of bugs
- 6 sunsets
- 6 monuments of Ottawa (parlement buildings, peacekeeping status etc..Zzz)
- 3 children
- 3 formal portraits
- 3 motorvehicle
- 2 sports
- 2 architecture
- 2 fireworks
- 2 flowers (not counting the macros of bugs on flowers)
- 2 pool table(!)
- 1 street shooting
- 1 animal at the zoo
- 1 musical instrument
- 3 photos that defy classification

Mercifully only one dog photo this year, and it's a good one.

So I would have to expland your list to include landscapes and macro photos or bugs.

I think that is what I like about RFF, no macro shots!

 

[Pherdinand]

Let it be known I prefer nudes to sunsets too, but it's easier to find willing models in the latter category.

That's rather strange, since we have only one Sun and a very non-0collaborating one, for that matter, while nudes well...plenty!

ANyway this thread looks a bit like a selection from the photo.net "top photos" gallery

What I prefer, honestly, are nudes in the sunrise.Sunsets are okay but it better be a gorgeous nude if it's a sunset.

 

[raid]

I don't like macro shots. I have several macro SLR lenses that are hardly used. Just for the heck of it, I used last week a 55mm micro lens to take photos of one of my daughter's eyes. It may come out to be interesting. Dana would sit still while the F2 with micro lens were nearly touching her face.

 

[Pherdinand]

You can shoot nudes with a macro lens, but those will be either boring or called pornography.

You obviously can't shoot a sunset with a macro lens (set to work as macro, I mean).

 

[lff]

haha....good point & perspective Pherdinand. For me the sun tends to be more willing to pose; but then, I don't suppose I've yet asked any ladies to pose in their most personal suit for me.

Perhaps I should just start asking.

I did forget to mention one other lame point about my sunset photo (and some here probably know it anyway). It was shot with my first digital camera rather than with film.

 

[VictorM.]

What? No pictures from Frank?

 

[Trius]

Frank's new hat scares away both nudes and sunsets...

 

[clarence]

I'll be blunt, and I don't expect forgiveness but I feel that for such a statement as Frank made, it had to be said.

Why you like nudes more than sunsets: Cause your penis says 'I want to **** that', but your brain says 'Pretend not to know so I won't look like a sex crazed man'.

After one has seen just so many nude women (and men), the novelty wears off. I find a well dressed woman much more appealing, from a sexual and aesthetic standpoint, than a nude.

Taste is always a contentious issue, but I think everyone should be allowed to appreciate and consume their pictures of bugs, sunsets and nudes as they wish.

Clarence

 

[Pherdinand]

After one has seen just so many nude women (and men), the novelty wears off.

Image of human bodies never wear off, in my oppinion. At least I hope i will never get bored looking at them. If i di, there's a serious problem.

I find a well dressed woman much more appealing, from a sexual and aesthetic standpoint, than a nude.

With this one I can agree, though. In some cases a little bit of clothing adds something.

 

[Ash]

The illusion of nudity is often much more appealing than the reality.

 

[eddie con]

"clothes add beauty to the human body". and i do enjoy dressing women up but, usually, not as much as undressing them.

 

[Hamster]

My photography relates better to reality as I mature...

I am wonder how you did your "Phyllis2" photo.

Did you focus in front or behind the subject?
Or did you print it with a piece of glass smeared with vaseline?

I would quite like to know as the photo have an ambiance that I quite like and would like to have a go at making my own when I have the chance.

 

[FrankS]

That hat is history!

 

[VictorM.]

I am wonder how you did your "Phyllis2" photo.

Did you focus in front or behind the subject?
Or did you print it with a piece of glass smeared with vaseline?

I would quite like to know as the photo have an ambiance that I quite like and would like to have a go at making my own when I have the chance.

The softness is the result of focusing in front of the subject and a wide open aperture. I was trying out different ideas. The film is also slightly overexposed and slightly overdeveloped so the white background prints white with normal contrast paper. I don't remember which lens I used. Probabaly 50mm, but I owned at least three different ltm 50's at the time. But then again, it could have been a 90mm.

 

[George Bonanno]

wildwildwes ?

wildwildwes ?

So... wildwildwes, How did you get that adjacency effect ???

Best,
George

 

[Hamster]

Thank VictorM, will give it a try. I assume you are using some sonnar derivative if you were using your 50.

 

[ampguy]

lens question

lens question

gabrielma,

nice photo... hey, I have one of these lenses, how can i tell if mine is as good as yours??

I'll be the first to test the waters...


Just processed this one today:

Leica M6 + Ilford HP5+ / 50mm Summarit f/1.5

Interestingly enough, the sun was about to set.

 

[George Bonanno]

Thanks W,

Yes... that does answer my question.

That's quite an excellent image.

Best,
George

 

[George Bonanno]

Outstanding !!!

Inspires me to use stroboscopic speed lights rather than available light.

Maybe we'll meet sometime in a Chelsea photo gallery or Noodle Town.

Best,
George