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Legs Lead Right Up to Curves

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It’s Not Just About the Butt Or Breasts

Legs in Nude Photography, Bent

With tall models like Jenni, bending the legs provides for great diagonals.

We’ll we’ve covered buttocks and breasts in nude photography, so why not legs, after all, they are the foundation of the body that lead straight up to the eye-pleasing curves. While in my glamour photography, the general rule is “if it’s meant to be bent, bend it,” when it comes to legs, in nude photography, I balance my shots with straight and bent legs, especially with taller models.

With tall models, a photographer can photograph a model from a lower angle and make her taller, or shoot at bellybutton level and keep the model’s physique in perspective and as an alternative, shoot from a downward level and shorten the model, though the latter is rarely done as it can also add perceived weight to the model’s body. I tend to have taller models bend their legs more than shorter models, though it will vary with the pose I choose, as not all poses work with all models.

Perhaps a better perspective, since I shoot both models and subjects, is that all models are subjects but not all subjects are models. That said, sometimes I’ll keep my subject’s legs straight and shoot up to make them appear taller and more slender, where as a thinner model I won’t hesitate to have her bend her legs.  The problem arises in that when the leg is bent, the upper thighs will naturally take on a thicker appearance.  For a short model or subject interested in appearing thinner, this leg-bent pose could affect her self-esteem if the photographs give her thighs a thicker appearance in the final image. It’s all about lens perspective, camera angle and lighting for each pose to accentuate the positive and minimize the negative qualities of the legs in nude photography.
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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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