Another Rant About Portraiture: Babies...

[CyberDyneSystems]

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too too funny.

[Cadwell]

ROFLMAO :lol:

[dannym]

I was ok until I read this. Now I'm sweating, heart is about to beat out of my chest.......scared, I'm really SCARED! Are there some out there that I don't know about?????

[cyclone]

Very funny. I hate to tell George...but he was going to end up that way regardless of the baby pictures;)

Going back to the previous rant, I never noticed the bare feet thing before. Then I took my toddler for a haircut. I am sitting in the waiting area, and I look up at a giant picture of the entire staff. They are all wearing matching shirts and jeans, and all look very hip. Then I pan down...and they are all barefoot! Too funny...I would have never noticed as I looked at how the photographer arranged the lighting, etc.

Thanks for expanding my horizons:razz:

Cyclone

[RichardtheSane]

Bloo, I type this now as I have finally stopped laughing. My Fiancee has stopped laughing. The dog has stopped wondering why we are both laughing.

I feel that is without a doubt the best story you have told us yet.

More so because I feel certain I have seen that look of fear from the baby photographs. It truly takes days to recover from, my freind will testify.

(I would like to point out at this time that neither my fiancee or I have ever seen, now will ever see, the baby photos. We have a future without the drawbacks that baby photos seem to provide)

Thankyou :) :)

[MazerRakhm]

I agree Bloo, mainly because it seems to be that "Butt Shots" are the first page grandmas turn to when they open up the old photo album to show relatives.

"No, that's ok, I don't need to see a picture of my fiancée and her brother when they were 2 in the natural. I especially didn't need to see the frontal of her brother.... (Flipping pages hurriedly.)”

[Tom W]

Another great one, BlooDog!

God invented diapers for a reason. Maybe 2 reasons. Or 3...

[Jemmind]

Unless the kid has three butt cheeks or something, why would someone be so sensitive about a baby picture? It must be a guy thing. Everybody has the same parts. And its not like you can even tell one baby's rear from any other. Naked babies are innocent, which cannot be said for naked children or adults.
Julie

[Moppie]

HIDE THE BUTT PICTURES. HIDE THEM. DON’T LET HER SEE THE BUTT PICTURES OR YOU’LL END UP LIKE ME.


Uh oh :cry::cry:






I can't wait for the book to come out! :D:D:D:D:D

[Jemmind]

Naked or clothed, I'm ALWAYS innocent until proven guilty.

Innocent, not as in
1. Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless: was innocent of all charges.
2. Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.

Bur innocent as in
Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless: an innocent child.


You got a picture of a naked kid, you have kiddie porn.
You have a picture of naked grown up, well, just suffice it to say, Oh how sweet and innocent is not the thoughts that will come to anyones mind/

Julie

[jfrancho]

I blame Anne Geddes.

[PhotosGuy]

"They could keep that ingrate sporting nose rings and goofy tattoos at bay by telling him, "Watch it. I've got pictures of you naked."" :D:D:D

[Maureen Souza]

And yeah, grandmas seem more quickly drawn to those shots. Maybe they've forgotten...?

Hey watch BD!! Many of us "grandmas" are still young, vivacious chicks with a lot going on in our lives.;) ;) I for one, do not have wrinkles or gray hair (and no, I haven't colored it) but I do think my grandson's little tush running through my house is perfectly adorable. And I have EARNED the right to feel that way. So don't come to my house, I am sure there is an offensive baby butt lurking about.:D :D

[jfrancho]

I admire Geddes' work, but after awhile, her work begins to do something to me.My mother has a Geddes print hanging in her bathroom. Very effective.

Personally, I belong to the naked baby school of parenting. My son has only just been deprogrammed by kindergarten, and begun his life as a fully clothed citizen. I spared him the documentation of this part of his life, preferring video of him picking his nose as a future instrument for blackmail. Naked babies? No problem! Pictures of naked babies? Goofy (to me).

[Moments]

If you display butt shots you will book butt shots.
You can always either turn down that type of work or convince the client that “This is really beautiful, and this is what I think will work for your child” If the client insists upon fully naked babies and butts and you are opposed to it, say it, and put it off to either religious, moral, or fear of child pornography charges, or if you really hate it that much and it sounds as if Bloo Dog does, just say “I hate those types of shots, have a good day, thanks for calling.”

[Claire]

I'm lucky, my parents weren't very much for taking pics of me as a kid. I think I've only seen ONE picture of me as a baby. That was of mom holding me at the hospital. I do have a pic though from 1st grade where I have horrible pigtails with big ribbons and smiling hugely. God I hated that picture growing up! Now I've come to terms it's the cutest picture of me ever. lol

[PhotosGuy]

In the future, I will avoid sensitive topics such as this one. Sensitive topics are the ones that are the most fun! CDS even debuted some new Smilies!

[cmM]

Which is precisely why my naked baby pictures (yes, I had some taken... I was born in Europe where it's on fashion to walk around naked until age 3 :D) were destroyed, gone forever. My poor brother though......

[Claire]

cmM,
I live in Sweden - ADULTS walk around practically naked on every beach you see. Unfortunately Swedes LOVE sunshine and throw off their clothes as soon as it's above 13 Celsius. The amount of bikiniclad women and bare chested men doing gardening work during Swedish summers is amazing. And of course the men haven't realised yet that it's not nice to watch them walk without a t-shirt in grocery stores/central Gothenburg. :rolleyes:

[am_pitbull_terrier]

I actually heard somewhere before, I dont know if it's true or not; That a photographer got into trouble (child porn troubles) for taking photos of kids naked butts.

[Claire]

am_pitbull_terrier,
I remember a journalist wrinting in his column how happy he was to finally see naked babies in travel adverts again. It wasn't that he was that fond of seeing them, but he felt it's so much tiptoeing around the whole "naked babies in pictures" issue. He thought that one should be able to look at a naked picture of a happy kid running up and down the beach without thinking "child porn"/"padophile alert". He said that those who think "oooh, naked baby" are just sick period, and will get their jollies of no matter what.

[Citizensmith]

So would now be a good time to post some shots of my 3 year old doing his naked dance when you try and get him dressed in the mornings. He wiggles his butt at you and everything, then runs off and hides giggling hysterically.