btgc
Veteran
Statement - on flickr, frames showing woman with emphasized sexual attributes (nice legs or hey, even red boots work) easily fetch high number of views, while similar street shots without "catchers" go "normal route". So easy.
Well, I'm not doing this for "more views". That few shots of womans just have happened, not that they are somehow special or even worth publishing - definitely not shots I'd list as my good ones. But I decided to check..and yeah, reflexes do their job. OK, I don't blame anyone - it's human nature. In the end, I'm not better if I've raised camera to snap 'em.
Maybe I'm wrong, but seems that here on RFF viewers are more selective
Again, I'm not trying to tell capturing or viewing pics of woman is bad taste, just plain speculation about human nature.
Well, I'm not doing this for "more views". That few shots of womans just have happened, not that they are somehow special or even worth publishing - definitely not shots I'd list as my good ones. But I decided to check..and yeah, reflexes do their job. OK, I don't blame anyone - it's human nature. In the end, I'm not better if I've raised camera to snap 'em.
Maybe I'm wrong, but seems that here on RFF viewers are more selective
Again, I'm not trying to tell capturing or viewing pics of woman is bad taste, just plain speculation about human nature.
landsknechte
Well-known
Take a look at the results of the photo rating at Photo.net sometime. Even the crappiest nudes are rated insanely high.
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varjag
Guest
There's old photographic adage that every shot is better with a nude in it. Sunset, safari, street, macro, sports, Hubble space telescope capture, you name it: boobs in the frame improve its appreciation dramatically.
Even a nude shot can be improved by introducing another nude!
Even a nude shot can be improved by introducing another nude!
Athos6
Tao Master
The Holy grail of photography, a Hubble ultra deep field capture with boobs... :angel:
denkrahm
Member
there is nothing phallic about a camera, just zoom lenses that extend when zooming in ;-)
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
maybe it's because there's nothing else interesting in the photographers' images?
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Street photography and bottoms, anyone?
Nearly 800 views and over 30 comments in 9 hours...
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58915
Arse Gratia Artis
Cheers,
R.
Nearly 800 views and over 30 comments in 9 hours...
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58915
Arse Gratia Artis
Cheers,
R.
Leighgion
Bovine Overseer
I don't see where the "speculation" gets in. Females are attractive to males by design. That's biology. I don't even have to add in the "heterosexual" qualifier, as most gay men also think women look great. There is no new insight in this.
Also not new is the reactionary attempt to criticize other people for their natural biological inclinations.
Also not new is the reactionary attempt to criticize other people for their natural biological inclinations.
alcaraban
Established
If I want to see a woman, I always prefer a picture in the style of Audrey Hepburn at Tiffany's or Juliette Binoche here but I guess I'm a perverted.
Do you think so? Try posting some pictures of boobs out of focus, and let's see what happens.
Do you think so? Try posting some pictures of boobs out of focus, and let's see what happens.
Spider67
Well-known
Many nudes in Fora receive great ratings by other photogs who also make...well nudes.
To make a good and interesting nude has become a big challenge again as many nudes (some days even 90%) posted -especially the BW ones-tend to look very uniform.
Stereotypic situations:
- Nude in front of some rocks :"this marvellous contrast between soft skin and hard...well rock!
- Low key nude in BW :very non erotic "pure" and increasingly dull. although low probability of being called a pornographer.
- Nude in the woods/ on a field. 60's paradise lost partially regained. Pics like that were even alowed in communist Germany that should give you something to think..
- nude in closed down factories: "this mervellous contrast between soft skin and hard machinery"
- Nude on a bed: simple recipe and deifinitely indecent
- Nude in a bath: all time classic. situation is a pefect excuse for nudity
Now I must stop posting as my latest nuede project awaits me a nude on a chair- something never seen before!
To make a good and interesting nude has become a big challenge again as many nudes (some days even 90%) posted -especially the BW ones-tend to look very uniform.
Stereotypic situations:
- Nude in front of some rocks :"this marvellous contrast between soft skin and hard...well rock!
- Low key nude in BW :very non erotic "pure" and increasingly dull. although low probability of being called a pornographer.
- Nude in the woods/ on a field. 60's paradise lost partially regained. Pics like that were even alowed in communist Germany that should give you something to think..
- nude in closed down factories: "this mervellous contrast between soft skin and hard machinery"
- Nude on a bed: simple recipe and deifinitely indecent
- Nude in a bath: all time classic. situation is a pefect excuse for nudity
Now I must stop posting as my latest nuede project awaits me a nude on a chair- something never seen before!
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
stereotypes are created by us.
The examples you mentioned are not necessarily coming from copies. These are easy ideas and anybody can come up with them, independent of others.
As long as you don't look at many nudes in the categories you mentioned, they won't be stereotypical for you
The examples you mentioned are not necessarily coming from copies. These are easy ideas and anybody can come up with them, independent of others.
As long as you don't look at many nudes in the categories you mentioned, they won't be stereotypical for you
Leighgion
Bovine Overseer
Just because a photo includes somebody naked and rock formations doesn't mean it's like every other photo of somebody naked that also included rock formations. Were all of Use the right choice of words and you can make anything sound trite and worn out by the time photography left glass plates, but that doesn't make it so. Are all landscapes basically alike because there's sun and mountains?
Spider67
Well-known
"Just because a photo includes somebody naked and rock formations doesn't mean it's like every other photo of somebody naked that also included rock formations."
It's about those nudes posted on Photofora whose photographers keep schmoozing each other. My post was meant as a tongue in cheek guide for making photographs for the sake of a good rating hence my comment about me ging to take a nude in a chair. So my post is about those nudes that contain rocks that look all the same whereas yours is about the fact that not all of these do so. (beacuse there still are photographers striving to find something new and original)
It's the phenomenon when the small path you are walking as a photographer gets broader and broader until you realize you are on a highway where many things are standardized....and look the same.
"Are all landscapes basically alike because there's sun and mountains?[/quote]"
Landscapes made by me would certainly look indistinguishable from thoase of others....The true masterpieces I've seen kept me from dabbling into that field.
In art you have often the fatrc that people who came out of the same schools oftem made paintings or pictures that look alike. But for my landscapes I guess I ahve to find the proper forum were people would schmooze me for my average results
It's about those nudes posted on Photofora whose photographers keep schmoozing each other. My post was meant as a tongue in cheek guide for making photographs for the sake of a good rating hence my comment about me ging to take a nude in a chair. So my post is about those nudes that contain rocks that look all the same whereas yours is about the fact that not all of these do so. (beacuse there still are photographers striving to find something new and original)
It's the phenomenon when the small path you are walking as a photographer gets broader and broader until you realize you are on a highway where many things are standardized....and look the same.
"Are all landscapes basically alike because there's sun and mountains?[/quote]"
Landscapes made by me would certainly look indistinguishable from thoase of others....The true masterpieces I've seen kept me from dabbling into that field.
In art you have often the fatrc that people who came out of the same schools oftem made paintings or pictures that look alike. But for my landscapes I guess I ahve to find the proper forum were people would schmooze me for my average results
V
varjag
Guest
Hey, you just posted contents of next BW Magazine issue!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I've always loved that song by Scissor Sisters with the repeating line ... "You can't see tits on the radio!"
Ronald_H
Don't call me Ron
Let's find out, shall we:
These are the pics with the most hits in my portfolio... what a suprise...
These are the pics with the most hits in my portfolio... what a suprise...
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
As I said before: maybe it's popular, because the rest of the shots are nothing big deal
Nothing personal, Roland - i don't know your portfolio - I just want to emphasize dat we, humans, tend to blame the community for our own weaknesses. Or, at least, I do!
Nothing personal, Roland - i don't know your portfolio - I just want to emphasize dat we, humans, tend to blame the community for our own weaknesses. Or, at least, I do!
Ronald_H
Don't call me Ron
As I said before: maybe it's popular, because the rest of the shots are nothing big deal
Nothing personal, Roland - i don't know your portfolio - I just want to emphasize dat we, humans, tend to blame the community for our own weaknesses. Or, at least, I do!
I don't really get that
The fact is that 'sex' sells. Even if there is not really sex in the images I posted. Yet they are very popular and I like them too.Funny thing is that both pictures were not my idea, but the idea of the girls featured in them. I don't think too much of it or about it. Most of us straight guys like to look at nice women, and most nice women don't really mind being looked at, barring drooling and wolf whistles.
migtex
Don't eXchange Freedom!
So I'm human, I'm male, and Sex sells, that's why!
Don't you luv when all pieces fell in place?!
oh! and I'm weak! YES!
Edite: Great light Ronald!
Don't you luv when all pieces fell in place?!
oh! and I'm weak! YES!
Edite: Great light Ronald!
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
I doubt it. We RFFers are just as sensationalist & sexist as everybody else on the planet.Maybe I'm wrong, but seems that here on RFF viewers are more selective
I have a somewhat small gallery with a very random selection of pictures . Here's the three pictures with the most hits:
Here's my hypothesis why people like these three the most. The first one is in the lead because it's somewhat gross (and because it was in Gallery Picks once and was on the front page for a couple of hours). The second one is there because there is obviously a woman in it and because of the title (Star F*ck, the name of the fashion event where it was shot). The third one is there because of the blonde. They are not particularly good photographs IMHO, except maybe for the bird which I like somewhat, but that's how gallery viewing works.
Philipp
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