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Brian Diaz wrote: No it was a ridiculous coincidence... great minds think alike I suppose: Jun 01 06 12:48 am Link 121 Jun 01 06 12:49 am Link 121 Jun 01 06 12:49 am Link the female nude is beautiful until a shitty perverse photographer starts snapping away. Jun 01 06 01:06 am Link art is different for everyone if you don't like girls and body parts then don't look shoot portraits ithen Jun 01 06 01:09 am Link Darrin James Malone wrote: Clearly we do it to make you uncomfortable. What happens if I say Boobies??? Or even b(o)(o)bies? Are you wiggling yet?? Jun 01 06 01:28 am Link Well, after doing my first outdoor nude photoshoot today on a rainy deserted ocean beach with a very talented photog and stylist, I think I could take a shot at this. Clothing is an optional accessory that we all seem to accept as standard. We are not borne with it. Rather, we choose to wear it to conceal our differences. Nude art photography simplifies and makes a concept timeless. Nude photography can be a statement about many things, not the least of which has anything to do with sex. Another way to look at i is that people photos can be divided up into three elements; The model, The background environment, and the wardrobe. Nude photography can make the artist's message 33% clearer since three is no focus on the non-existent wardrobe. Jun 01 06 02:12 am Link Nick Ryder wrote: You express yourself well, and you make good points. I defer to your nice rebuttal. Jun 01 06 02:24 am Link Nerlande wrote: sweeeeeeeeeeeet Jun 01 06 02:31 am Link Darrin James Malone wrote: This is the most ridiculous nonsense I have ever heard a anyone in the business spew. You respect women, yet youâve just offended most of the models on this web-site and around the world. Jun 01 06 02:48 am Link You just joined the forums and THIS is your first posting? Jun 01 06 02:56 am Link INever wrote: If you're suggesting that I have to earn the right to post my own opinion that might offend someone in a heated debate, I assure you I do not. I am not new to posting my views on photography forums and just because this is amoung my first on MM doesn't de-value the weight of my expearience in the field. Jun 01 06 03:32 am Link Mercy Studio wrote: I think he meant the OP at least I hope he did and btw I agree with your 1st post Jun 01 06 04:41 am Link Graham Walker wrote: lmao... gotta love dead parrots... they have much funnier sketches then dead horses. or like this post... which is getting old now... nudity is weird? lmaoem (laughing my ass off even more) Jun 01 06 06:10 am Link Click Hamilton wrote: Nice to hear someone take the high road, bravo! Click for president! Jun 01 06 11:13 am Link Click Hamilton wrote: Apology noted and accepted. I have found that though many of us disagree on Model Mayhem, at the end of the day, this place ain't all that bad, I appreciate your sentiment and acknowledgement, salute! Jun 01 06 12:16 pm Link Darrin James Malone wrote: Why do you care so much about what someone else chooses to show? Do you contend that everyone on MM should adopt and behave in accordance with YOUR personal values? Jun 01 06 12:20 pm Link Darrin James Malone wrote: I've shown people my comic book collection. It's kinda private. Jun 01 06 12:22 pm Link markcomp wrote: *giggles* I like! Jun 01 06 08:17 pm Link Iona Lynn wrote: Excellent response !! Jun 02 06 06:53 am Link Shyly wrote: Ohhhhh now they just gone too damn far !! Jun 02 06 06:54 am Link YeagerVision wrote: Someone has way too much time on his hands.... Jun 02 06 07:00 am Link Ok, let me preface this by saying I didn't read ALL of the posts. I just can't take the screams of that dying, but not yet dead, horse! At the risk of inflicting one last punch to the poor beast, I want to say I find it very interesting that people have so many issues with models who work nude and photographers who shoot models who work nude. I spent years shooting and exhibiting landscapes and still life subjects. Not one single person - no one at all - ever demanded an explanation from me as to why I photographed scenic rivers and mountain ranges. No one cared to know why I shot close-ups of flowers or garlic skins, or a pattern of fractures in a rock or veins in a backlit leaf. Nobody wanted to know why I was so interested in the form presented by a banyan tree's aerial root system or ice crystals on cattail reeds. Nobody wanted to know how long I had to wait in a frozen swamp for the "just right-light", or that I was stung by three yellow jackets whose nest happened to be right where I plunked my tripod to shoot some of the most striking bluebells I'd ever seen. This was the biggest difference I noticed in shooting the nude - the human response. People were content to gaze at my landscape and nature work, to feel at peace with the beauty of the emotions the images conveyed - but naked people? Oh baby! Naked people strike a nerve! What a powerful nerve it is! At my first gallery exhibition of my figure work, people demanded to know: "why do you photograph nude people, why nude women, why no men, why that model, (she's too fat), why that model, (she's too skinny), why don't you show faces, why not more subtle; I don't like to see nipples, why not more subtle; I don't like the hair down there; I don't need to see boobs to know she's beautiful......." And on, and on, and on...... I feel and believe - IMHO only - that most people in our American culture and society are frightened of and intimidated by the nude body. I recall reading a survey years ago that showed most Americans would rather be held up and robbed at gunpoint than be seen nude in a busy public place. I dated a girl in college who revealed to me her parents wouldn't allow her to change her clothes or bathe in a room while the lights were on! Yet as a societal group, huge numbers of our populace spend billions of dollars consuming pornography in our homes, (relax some of you, this is a generalization), while berating any form of art depicting human nudity or sexual expression. Simply put - I don't get it. As other responders have said in this post, and as I've said in other posts: if you do nude work; fine. If you don't do nude work; fine. I'm not going to email or message you to model for my figure work. If you don't like seeing nude photography, then don't look at photographs of nudes. I'm not going to email or message you to view my work. Either way, you don't owe anybody an explanation or justification as to why. FWIW - Bill Ballard Blue Water Photography Savannah, GA Jun 02 06 07:34 am Link 2 Thoughts For The OP: 1. If you don't like it, don't look at it. 2. Since when are women the only nude models? Last time I checked men took their clothes off too. Where's your thread about that? Huh? Jun 02 06 07:37 am Link NC17 wrote: Is the house next door for sale? Jun 02 06 07:53 am Link Well, after doing my first outdoor nude photoshoot today on a rainy deserted ocean beach with a very talented photog and stylist, I think I could take a shot at this. Oy vey, Jay Bird. We're not all going to want to look, but we all will, won't we? Jun 02 06 08:06 am Link Darrin James Malone wrote: Yeah whats with all dem women taking their clothes off ...I find that it is really taking me some special skills as a photographer to convince them to keep their clothes on ..... It can be a challenge at times Jun 02 06 08:20 am Link Personally I like keeping my clothes on. It's all about personal preference. If somebody else wants to pose nude that's good for them. I don't have to do it so why should I care. The OP should realize that since nobody is putting a gun to his head and forcing him to look at the naked women on this site it is none of his concern what they choose to do. Maybe he should try posing nude and see if his opinons don't change. Maybe he;l gain a little more respect for the lovely ladies who choose this artform. Jun 02 06 08:33 am Link YeagerVision wrote: Of the 25% of models who emphatically stated they would not pose nude, 4 of those profiles (65%) contained "bra and panty on a motel bed" poses. Jun 03 06 03:27 am Link We are all born into this world naked. My question is at what age does an adorable cute naked child become a sexual keep that covered and to yourself entity? new born naked....adorable, 2 yr old naked....cute 4 yr old naked....amusing 7 yr old naked.....o my 9 yr old naked.....perverted 12 yr old naked.....arrested 15 yr old naked.....sex offender 18 yr old naked....adult pay site contender 21 yr old naked....playboy 30 yr old naked....Milf 40 yr old naked....o my 45 yr old naked.... amusing 50 yr old naked.... what is she thinking not even cute 60 yr old naked....can we look at babies now lol Jun 03 06 03:43 am Link I have 4 of 16 images on my site reserved for the +18 group. Two barely show a nipple, and the other 2 are art nudes. The only images to receive more views that the +18 are the image of a girl holding a big toy gun. People complain more about nudes than about guns and violent images. Go figure?! Jun 03 06 04:14 am Link |
