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Nudes
Note: yes, this is the same Adriane with whom I built The Game.
Is it Art?
The line between art and pornography is fairly thin, but it is there. At right is a photo
that I took as an MIT undergrad. A couple of photography professors loved it. They
thought it was art, expression, new, whatever. They hated the arch nude above and
preferred this one. Unfortunately they never did teach me how to describe this as a
tortured artiste project and how to do more, or I'd be exhibiting in the Whitney
museum...
More Practical Tips
Black & white infrared film tends to erase skin blemishes and imparts a lustrous luminous quality to human
skin. It is worth reading Laurie White's Infrared Photography Handbook and then trying out a few rolls of
B&W IR.
Every now and then someone sends email asking "How do you get women to take their clothes off." My
personal theory is that the world divides into two classes of people: those who like to be photographed and
those who don't. Those who like to be photographed think they have beautiful bodies. Naturally, if they look
good in a picture clothed, then they'd look better without all those ugly clothes standing between their
beautiful body and the camera. If you therefore find some folks who have survived the constant assault on
their self esteem by advertisers, the challenge will be to get them to keep their clothes on. It also helps to have
a portfolio of high quality work.
How to develop that portfolio? Here's a 12-step program:
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