Nudie

What would the recommended setup be for some nudie/softcore porn studio work?

First things first,

You need to put up a large viewing platform and then send everyone here an invitation.

And of corse we will all need to see examples just to make sure that your equipment is set up correctly



Other then that I am not much help.

Any advice? Any at all?

You may want to try a different topic name.. something about portrait lighting perhaps. There may be people who know all about the sort of lighting set up you are looking for that just aren't going to look at this thread?

... perhaps?

Light....lots of light...

If your just going for content, and not artistic content, fill the room with light. There is a guy on photosig that does really great work using the shop lights from Home Depot (DIY home shop). You might want to check there.

Just my 2 bits...

There are 2 types of "Glamour" photo:
A- Hired model who has a perfect figure and you're shooting for, let's say, Maxim magazine.
B- A spouse who wants to rekindle the burning desire by hiring you to take some risky shots of him or her.
In scenario A, your lighting should be bright to show off all of those "special features" that you dearly paid for. The lightings are almost always large lightboxes or reflective panels. Simple background and poses are often used because the focus is the body.
In scenario B, your lighting should be selective to HIDE unwanted imperfections. Smaller lightboxes and flags are used to highlight specific areas. Gels are used to iluminate but divert attention to other areas. Posing and props are much more important to these shots.

Saber wrote:
First things first,

You need to put up a large viewing platform and then send everyone here an invitation.

And of corse we will all need to see examples just to make sure that your equipment is set up correctly



Other then that I am not much help.

Concur.. 8)

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A nice set of macro lenses

timmyquest wrote:
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A nice set of macro lenses

ROFLMAO! You crack me up, Timmy!

last time i checked, there weren't many artists in the market for the product. get whatever light you can - and shoot for content not creativety.

Porn is easy

Well, I take decent portraits, and recently had
a noobie experience shooting nudes.

What I found out is that it is extremely easy to
take porn type photos, but extremely hard to
do sensuous, graceful nudes.

Taking porn pics takes no skill whatsoever.
I was trying to be an artiste, it made me pissed
that so many of my failed attempts at nudes
came off looking like porn! I had a goodlooking,
cooperative model, but out of a two and half
hour session and a couple hundred shots, there
were only two or three shots I would have
considered of marginal artistic value. The rest,
I'm afraid, were porn magazine worthy. ****!

(If it's ok with you guys, I'll post samples here
for your evaluation.)

Cheers, Cadenza

Cadenza wrote:
Well, I take decent portraits, and recently had
a noobie experience shooting nudes.

What I found out is that it is extremely easy to
take porn type photos, but extremely hard to
do sensuous, graceful nudes.

Taking porn pics takes no skill whatsoever.
I was trying to be an artiste, it made me pissed
that so many of my failed attempts at nudes
came off looking like porn! I had a goodlooking,
cooperative model, but out of a two and half
hour session and a couple hundred shots, there
were only two or three shots I would have
considered of marginal artistic value. The rest,
I'm afraid, were porn magazine worthy. ****!

(If it's ok with you guys, I'll post samples here
for your evaluation.)

Cheers, Cadenza

Cademza i speak for us all when i say that we'll be the judge of that...bring em on! 8)

Examples would be handy. 8)

Porn is too easy!
set your camera to extremely red velvia-like colour and snap away :P :P
But doing anything remotely nice looking is,as candenza says,quite a challenge.Do some searches on playboy shoots to see what you find.I've heard they go nuts with multiple softlights and such

Male nude or porn?

OK,

So tell me which of these pics are artsy, and
which ones look like porn. Remember this
was just an exercise, and the first time I've
shot male nudes.

So how do you do artistic nudes without slapping
on tons of filters and special effects? I wanted
a spontaneous feel. If you think these look like
porn, you shoulda seen the other ones.

So here's the link: nude or porn? (R-rated, explicit)

http://f2.pg.photos.ya​hoo.com …?.dir=/6989&.dn​m=df6d.jpg

[Sorry, to discourage misuse, I'm only posting
small samples.]