Photographer
MartyO
Posts: 25
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
It seems more and more models are doing either nude or implied nude or emphasizing swim wear in their photos. I can understand photographers, who are mostly males, promoting this trend. But why are so many female models including these types of images in their own portfolios? One can argue that photos of this nature help promote the model by showing off her 'assets'. But is it just me, or do these images tend to all look the same after a while? Perhaps one day photographers and models who want their portfolios to stand out from the rest will once again feature tastefully clothed models. The pendulum might swing back to a style of photography done 30, 40 or 50 years ago, one with an emphasis on creativity as opposed to skin...a sort of a little renaissance, if you will. If that ever happens, I think I'm ready....
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EL PIC
Posts: 2835
Austin, Indiana, US
Nude models begin to look the same. But exciting work is what the keeps the intrest - Nude or Clothed.
However a girl who models nude usually has the greatest pose and confidence no matter what she wears.
It is really the best way to learn despite U.S. Puritan beliefs.
Also its the way some girls can make $$ or in my case get
into real $$$ commercial work.
E L
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La Seine by the Hudson
Posts: 8587
New York, New York, US
Only if the photographers making the images and/or the audience viewing them lack any sense of passion, wonder, or imagination.
Model
StacyJack
Posts: 2297
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote:
Only if the photographers making the images and/or the audience viewing them lack any sense of passion, wonder, or imagination. agree, boring photograhers make boring photos. No matter how much clothes are missing.
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Adam Chilson
Posts: 350
Hesperia, California, US
Goes for photos in general, not just nudes. If I see another white seamless background or couch/bed image I swear I'm gunna start breaking things. . .
But seriously. Tired of seeing the same old thing.
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YeagerVision
Posts: 175
Los Angeles, California, US
99.9% of ALL images blend together. Spectacular photographs are rare by definition.
A vast minority of models post nude images on their portfolios, so I disagree with the hypothisis that a noticabley increasing number of models are posting nude photographs.
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Perc Powell Studios
Posts: 736
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
YeagerVision wrote:
99.9% of ALL images blend together. Spectacular photographs are rare by definition.
A vast minority of models post nude images on their portfolios, so I disagree with the hypothisis that a noticabley increasing number of models are posting nude photographs. Could'nt agree more.. Kudos!
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Chili
Posts: 5146
Brooklyn, New York, US
ok
just an observation, but there is another thread stating "where did all of the nude images go?"
are you guys sure you're both looking at the same site?
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A J Kahn
Posts: 120
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Personally, I think the nude as an art form can have endless possibilities. However, if one more photographer craps out another image of the Golden Gate bridge, I'm gonna puke.
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Nick Ryder
Posts: 317
Walnut Creek, California, US
Naked models all look the same ( but, only if they are standing on their heads ).
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D. Brian Nelson
Posts: 5477
Rapid City, South Dakota, US
Do nude images all look the same after a while?
Yeah, if the photographer's doing it wrong.
-D
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Kentsoul
Posts: 9739
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
The real question is: Do all anti-nude rants disguised as "honest" questions look the same?
Answer: Yes they do.
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YeagerVision
Posts: 175
Los Angeles, California, US
Melvin Moten Jr wrote:
The real question is: Do all anti-nude rants disguised as "honest" questions look the same?
Answer: Yes they do. Awesome!
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Kentsoul
Posts: 9739
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
MartyO wrote:
It seems more and more models are doing either nude or implied nude or emphasizing swim wear in their photos. I can understand photographers, who are mostly males, promoting this trend. But why are so many female models including these types of images in their own portfolios? One can argue that photos of this nature help promote the model by showing off her 'assets'. But is it just me, or do these images tend to all look the same after a while? Perhaps one day photographers and models who want their portfolios to stand out from the rest will once again feature tastefully clothed models. The pendulum might swing back to a style of photography done 30, 40 or 50 years ago, one with an emphasis on creativity as opposed to skin...a sort of a little renaissance, if you will. If that ever happens, I think I'm ready.... "Man...I can't wait for it to stop snowing!"
--Stegosaurus
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Doug Lester
Posts: 10591
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Do nude images all look the same after a while?
Only when badly photographed.
Model
KatSchaper
Posts: 179
Chicago, Illinois, US
Melvin Moten Jr wrote:
The real question is: Do all anti-nude rants disguised as "honest" questions look the same?
Answer: Yes they do. LMAO!!!
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Tog
Posts: 55204
Birmingham, Alabama, US
...Stacy wrote:
agree, boring photograhers make boring photos. No matter how much clothes are missing. Hey! I'm a boring photographer! *sniff*.. And I like one or two of my nudes!
Ironically, the OP's sentiment about nudes is how I feel about fashion.. If I see one more dead eye'd canary in an overpriced rag trying to look more important than she really is... Then... I'll have seen one more dead eye'd canary in an overpriced rag trying to look more important than she really is... I know that's where the money and the fame is... But it just flies so far over my head I don't even feel the breeze in my hair..
Similar feelings about bikini shots.. Although I like them more.. Not for the skin.. But for watching these guys MASTER skin-tones.. Problem is a perfect skin tone looks like a perfect skin tone looks like a.... I still look at these because I usually want to figure out what mask, what blend, what curve, or what layer they're using.. *shrug*
If I want to get titillated I'll whip out the german fisting porn.. *FRAU BLUCHER!*
Artist/Painter
jerantino
Posts: 2780
Kirkland, Washington, US
I think we could use some pudding here about now...
Model
mister wright
Posts: 23
San Francisco, California, US
wow. WG Rowland wrote:
If I want to get titillated I'll whip out the german fisting porn.. *FRAU BLUCHER!*
Photographer
Tog
Posts: 55204
Birmingham, Alabama, US
Dave Wright Model wrote:
wow.
*sigh*.. People are so literal.. I meant SOFTCORE... German fisting porn.. *snerk*
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Vector 38
Posts: 8296
Austin, Texas, US
hard to say 'cuz a certain amount of repetition helps establish one's style ...
... but too much makes the work monotonous.
how to stay one step ahead of the trends???
fml
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
WG Rowland wrote:
If I want to get titillated I'll whip out the german fisting porn.. *FRAU BLUCHER!* *horse whiney*
Photographer
Done and Gone
Posts: 7650
Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
1 Is it just me or do all clothed images look the same after a while?
2 Is it just me or do all photographs of pretty girls look the same after a while?
3 Is it just me or do all black and white images look the same after a while?
4 Is it just me or do all pointless posts on the Model Mayhem forums look the same after a while?
5 Maybe it is just you.
Have Fun, Take Pictures!!
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
MartyO wrote:
The pendulum might swing back to a style of photography done 30, 40 or 50 years ago, one with an emphasis on creativity as opposed to skin...a sort of a little renaissance, if you will. If that ever happens, I think I'm ready.... Nudes were taken about 5 minutes after film was perfected.
Nudes were steadily shot in the timr frame you reference.
They were simply not shown so much (in this country anyway) because it was found socially unnaceptable (and even then I could go back to fashion mags like Vogue from the 60's & 70's and show you topless shots).
Creativity is in the what the photographer shoots.
Putting clothes on a model in a boring photograph won't make the model interesting any more than than taking clothes off will.
As others have noted, repetitious bikini shots or Maxim shots or fashion shots all blur too.
It's the photographer & his ability & creativity, not the subject so much.
And some of your tone sounds a lot more (again as has been noted) like it's really nudity in general you have an issue with, not boring photos.
Photographer
T H Taylor
Posts: 6862
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
You can have a model standing there in a beautiful pinstripe Armani suit "tastfully dressed" but, If you have her smoking a 12 inch black dildo like a cigar... Is it still a tasteful shot?? It's what you, the shooter, choses to do creatively that matters, not what the model is or is not wearing. Puritanical bullshit is what gets boring. P.S. No one steal my suit/dildo idea! 
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Michael Bell
Posts: 925
Anaheim, California, US
MartyO wrote:
It seems more and more models are doing either nude or implied nude or emphasizing swim wear in their photos. I can understand photographers, who are mostly males, promoting this trend. But why are so many female models including these types of images in their own portfolios? Where are you finding these models? We just had a thread on how so many models are NOT doing any nudity these days, especially the ones here.
Model
Shyly
Posts: 3870
Pasadena, California, US
MartyO wrote:
Perhaps one day photographers and models who want their portfolios to stand out from the rest will once again feature tastefully clothed models. The pendulum might swing back to a style of photography done 30, 40 or 50 years ago, one with an emphasis on creativity as opposed to skin...a sort of a little renaissance, if you will. If that ever happens, I think I'm ready.... As an art model who is frequently nude, I take exception to your assumptions, as highlighted above. Skin can be very creative, depending upon who is shooting it. There are a few of those folks in this thread, in fact, including Adam, Don, Melvin, and TH. They all see their subjects with wholly unique perspectives, and breathe that creativity and originality into their images in a way that I personally find much more compelling than most of what's out there, clothed or not.
Whether you're talking about clothed or unclothed images, there will always be people creating mediocre work. The challenge is to improve, no matter what your genre, and excel at what moves you enough that it moves someone else as well.
The rest is just background noise.
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
Shyly wrote:
As an art model who is frequently nude, I take exception to your assumptions, as highlighted above. Skin can be very creative, depending upon who is shooting it. There are a few of those folks in this thread, in fact, including Adam, Don, Melvin, and TH. They all see their subjects with wholly unique perspectives, and breathe that creativity and originality into their images in a way that I personally find much more compelling than most of what's out there, clothed or not.
Whether you're talking about clothed or unclothed images, there will always be people creating mediocre work. The challenge is to improve, no matter what your genre, and excel at what moves you enough that it moves someone else as well.
The rest is just background noise. Will you marry me? 
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UnoMundo
Posts: 47532
Olympia, Washington, US
The run down to Best Buy, get an XT, get a butt shot crowd is all going to look alike.
Once you learn to avoid these and see really god stuff than your appreciation will increase.
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Tog
Posts: 55204
Birmingham, Alabama, US
UnoMundo Photography wrote:
The run down to Best Buy, get an XT, get a butt shot crowd is all going to look alike.
Once you learn to avoid these and see really god stuff than your appreciation will increase. HEY!
I have an XT... And if I'm part of the "shoot a butt" crowd, I wanna know why I haven't been invited to the meetings..?! =p
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Analog Nomad
Posts: 4097
Pattaya, Central, Thailand
MartyO wrote:
It seems more and more models are doing either nude or implied nude or emphasizing swim wear in their photos. I can understand photographers, who are mostly males, promoting this trend. But why are so many female models including these types of images in their own portfolios? One can argue that photos of this nature help promote the model by showing off her 'assets'. But is it just me, or do these images tend to all look the same after a while? Perhaps one day photographers and models who want their portfolios to stand out from the rest will once again feature tastefully clothed models. The pendulum might swing back to a style of photography done 30, 40 or 50 years ago, one with an emphasis on creativity as opposed to skin...a sort of a little renaissance, if you will. If that ever happens, I think I'm ready.... This has nothing to do with nudity, or not -- it's simply about the creative process. Have you noticed that all car ads start looking alike -- heck -- even the cars themselves all look alike! Novels, TV shows -- how many CSI/Law and Order shows do we need -- how many American Idol, how many reality shows do we need? Can you really tell the difference between one lame hip-hop rapper talking about his bling and baby's BIG booty, and another?
Great art always surprises and stands apart from the rest -- but it is rarer than we'd like.
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ChristopherRoss
Posts: 1559
Eškašem, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
MartyO wrote:
I can understand photographers, who are mostly males, promoting this trend. lol, don't get me wrong but I don't think it's a male thing.
I've seen some wonderful nude work being done out of England that last few years, almost all by women photographers.
but yes ... after a while, it's all the same and with the advent of digital cameras / the internet, nudity has become boring except in the hands of a gifted photographer.
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Jerry de Lisle Photo
Posts: 176
Petaluma, California, US
In my opinion 99.9% of them do look the same. Very few photographers can pull it off.
Probably why I don't even bother anymore. Not that I'm opposed to nudity, but throw some clothing into the mix and the image becomes much more interesting IMHO.
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Analog Nomad
Posts: 4097
Pattaya, Central, Thailand
WG Rowland wrote:
Hey! I'm a boring photographer! *sniff*.. And I like one or two of my nudes!
If I want to get titillated I'll whip out the german fisting porn.. *FRAU BLUCHER!* OK -- TOO much information!!! 
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Tog
Posts: 55204
Birmingham, Alabama, US
bang bang photo wrote:
OK -- TOO much information!!! Another Young Frankenstein hater?!
I tell you Gene Wilder is a genius!
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Justin
Posts: 22389
Fort Collins, Colorado, US
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Fotticelli
Posts: 12252
Rockville, Maryland, US
I think they do look all the same. I haven't really seen anything interesting being made since, like, the 1930s. Or was it the 1920s.
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UnoMundo
Posts: 47532
Olympia, Washington, US
WG Rowland wrote:
HEY!
I have an XT... And if I'm part of the "shoot a butt" crowd, I wanna know why I haven't been invited to the meetings..?! =p You are too creative for that WG ! I dont see any head down butt up shots in your port!
There are only so many " look up your thong" shots available!
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