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One Light, One Chair, Editorial Nude Photo, Melissa

"One Light, One Chair," is a photography theme I'm working that often inspires me, like this photograph of Melissa.

As you’ll figure out while surfing this photoblog, one of my favorite working themes, for almost ten years now, is called, “One Light, One Chair.” The emphasis of this theme is not specifically a chair as the way we know it, but anything that involves something we sit, lay, or support ourselves on.  So unlike this image, sometimes you might not see a “physical” chair with four legs, it might just be a seat of a forklift, motorcycle, bicycle, or even the armrest of a sofa or the flat edge of a rock, but all the photographs will have one thing in common, the model is illuminated by only one light.

Taking a page for no hard requirement of a four-legged chair, the light source could be the Sun, the Moon, the light bouncing off a reflector or even the modeling lamp (the tungsten light that stays continuously on in a studio flash head), but not necessarily a studio flash unit or on-camera flash.  The emphasis on the photographic lighting is any viable light source, especially with today’s clean, crisp high ISO (think film speed) digital cameras.

In this photo of Melissa, taken during one of my Virgin Islands, “Glamour, Beauty and the Nude” photography workshops, the model was lit with my typical monolight setup with the flash turned on.  While the modeling lamp is on too, it’s light temperature is knocked out by the flash when it fires, however, the modeling lamp is important to show me what I’ll be capturing based on where my light will be striking.
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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.”

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