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Form In Nude Photography

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Photography ultimately is about texture, shape and form. The latter, form, is the most basic element in art, and immediately taught in college Art 101 classes as the basis of a “three-dimensional geometrical figure as opposed to shape.” Shape is defined as two-dimensional objects, normally flat in appearance and this is what an amateur photographer will normally capture, while a great professional photographer will create and capture a third-dimensional illusion.

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Here is a great example of chiaroscuro.

This is what separates pictures from photographs.  In pictures, that anyone can take, photography is two-dimensional by nature, like a photographic print or a painter’s canvas.  However, the greatest painters and photographers will use chiaroscuro, the intermixing of lights and darks, to create the “illusion” of a third-dimension in their two-dimensional mediums. This is what separates the greats from the good or close enough for government work settlers—the illusion to bring out form.

Unfortunately, form is often overlooked, mainly because people see three-dimensional from the moment our eyes open at birth to the day we die, so basically, we’re just used to seeing form in everything, usually without appreciating the form itself, like the form of the human figure.  But when we use the right lens, hold the camera at the right angle (besides the obvious horizontal and vertical format) and light the subject appropriately, the human body begins to take its form in the photographer’s camera—it’s an art to see this form before the camera shutter is released.

Camera: Olympus E-1, Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm, F/2 (eff. 70mm), Shutter Speed: 1/160, Aperture: F/4.5, ISO: 100, White Balance: 6000K, Lighting: Hensel Hensel Integra 500 Pro Plus fitted with 7-inch reflector and a 20-degree metal grid
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Rolando Gomez Philosophy on Nude Photography
Editorial Nudes is not a website where you’ll find pornography, nor is this a website where models are underage, this is a website that showcases another genre of my art, though I want to clarify, nudity should never be a requirement for photography. Nudity is not for everyone, but for those that can appreciate the beauty of the human form and can handle it with maturity and common sense. I hope you’ll enjoy how I view nudity through my camera lens, often in a more editorial format. Read more about my philosophy on nude photography here.

Photographer Helmut Newton Had It Right On Nude Photography
While many famous photographers are known for other genres of photography, such as fashion, commercial, landscape and photojournalism photography, almost all have shot a nude photograph at some point in their careers. Whether it was fashion nude, editorial nude, Playboy nude, fine-art nude, implied nude, or some form of nude photography, some photographer captured a nude photo somewhere.

Then there were those like Helumut Newton, who were catapult into more fame for their nude photography than their commercial or fashion magazine photography. It’s been said that Simon de Pury, the head of the New York/London auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, while having a discussion with Helmut Newton about the then upcoming inaugural show for his Zurich gallery, asked Newton, “…What else do you have?” Newton replied, “My landscapes, but nobody wants to see those.”

Newton was correct and soon “Sex and Landscapes” was conceived for that inaugural show in 2001. While undoubtedly the late Newton has help put the “PC” in nude photography over the years, it’s not that nude photography is so bad in our private conscious, it’s the difficulty of the use of the word in our vocabulary and the use of nude images in our visual arts—like a fear, our own society is the guilty culprit and it’s time for us to “grow up” and accept the beauty nude photography brings, especially when captured correctly.

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