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This past week I was in Las Vegas, no, not to live the “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” party life, but to attend the WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) convention. Though I was asked earlier in the year to speak at this annual gathering of photographers, I regrettably passed, as I was not sure I could attend with my schedule, though I think I’ll jump on it for 2012, especially since it allows me to see old friends and meet knew friends too.  Speaking of friends, I decided to spend a couple of extra days after WPPI to photograph two of my local models.

Nude Photo, Model Jolene, Hotel Room

Use specular lighting in hotel room nude photography shoots, this creates surreal or dramatic effects.

Well, like most planned model shoots, Murphy will strike, and it struck on Thursday’s shoot, but lucky for everyone, Friday’s model, Jolene, was dead-on-time and had a few hours to spare for our photography shoot.  She’s modeled for my workshops in Las Vegas and the Virgin Islands, but took some time off to give birth to her new baby daughter, so she was ready too shoot again.
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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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