AC wrote:
I've been inspired.  I too will no longer shoot nudes so that I can concentrate entirely on the completely unexplored genre of bikini beach photography- a hot bed of originality.

So help me God if you steal my idea of a hot model in a camo bikini, you'll be hearing from my lawyer.

Surreal Eye Studio wrote:
I like titties.

more than curveball?

TXPhotog wrote:
It's hard to find originality in any area.  No need to single out nudes.

Seems to be the underlying point that nobody wants to admit.

MUA's with the overused smoky eye look, or even better, the ones that feign originality by applying the  extravagant make up on only ONE eye!  WOW never seen that idea before!

Fashion photographers and models with the nonchalant bent in sunken chest pose with XXXX brand name designer clothes.  Yup that's a new one!

Art photographers with the single light sources and "bodyscapes".  That's NEVER been done before! **rolls eyes**

The oh so mundane commercial photographer/ model  doing their lifestyle in the city shots, the "laughing model", the "day at the park" shot.  Yeah you NEVER see these concepts over done.

The glamour photographer/ model with the oiled up girl looking pouty at the camera doing absolutely NOTHING but looking pouty at the camera.

The fetish photographer.  How many ways can you tie a girl up and in knots and it be considered original?

I could go on, but I think ya'll should get the point.

Photography in general is mundane and unoriginal (at this stage of oversaturation of media and images).  It's up to the photographer/ model to come up with a shot/ idea that has either not been done before or take an existing idea and do it THEIR way.  Nudes aren't the only pics that fall in the overdone catagorey they just seem to take the brunt of criticism here on MM.

What Fun Productions wrote:
Have you tried a vagina cam?

Hmmmm I think that depends on if you are inside looking out, or outside looking in. 

"Perspective" a angle of the camera or the way we view things.

"Art" is what one mind sees, and the other does not!

Photography is Art unless you ask an artist. Then is just a Job, or a functin, or a mechanical thing or ,,,,, Well ask on asn see what they say

Oh yes and Speaking of the way a camera sees thing (Above) well then when I said inside looking out? what lens would you use?

Nudes are always different or Apples are always different, so therfore you should never give up on a different look or aproach, you are letting the Art down in Photography!