By Louis Benjamin
The bare and the Lens is designed as either a technical advisor and a creative thought. packed with attractive photographs of the nude shape, it additionally indicates you ways this is often technically accomplished. The ebook covers key issues: inspiration, lighting fixtures, directing, post-production, and artisic re-interpretation and the way to discover types. criminal and picture unlock matters are coated in addition.
The concepts are up to date, together with Photoshop CS4, uncooked trap and capturing with a grey card to catch actual white stability info. The lights part also will exhibit tips to get studio caliber gentle from hot-shoe flashes via adapting them to umbrellas and delicate packing containers.
Regardless of even if you're taking pictures in a studio or in a box, this e-book will enable you to create artworks with nude our bodies and it'll additionally train via suggestion in a different interview part with best nude photographers around the globe via their phrases and their photos.
* Lavishly illustrated through members from worldwide
* Covers photographing paintings nudes from inspiration to finishing touch
* contains lighting fixtures, operating with versions, criminal concerns, and post-production
* Bonus interviews and expansive assets on www.TheNakedAndTheLens.com
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Much of that charge arises from the codified shame of being naked that so many of us learn at an early age (think Adam and Eve and the Fall From Grace). Another source of that charge can be seen in the way that fashion operates: if the “clothes make the (wo)man,” then stripping her clothes also strips away a significant part of her social stature. Viewers often place themselves in the scene being depicted, and expect that the artist or the model would be embarrassed or ashamed to make the image.
You probably didn’t need this caption to get that from the image. Photo by Louis Benjamin. BOTTOM: By Â�referencing the Abu-Ghraib scandal and the Pietà Â� of Michelangelo, this image calls attention to ideals, politics, Â� and shame. Reproduced by permission of JD€Â�Yezierski. Visual literacy varies just as verbal literacy does, and developing an awareness of visual language and culture can give your work a powerful resonance. When viewers begin to read a photo for the first time, they are often concerned with what is being depicted in the image, what those depicÂ� tions might symbolize, and whether some part of the image alludes to something they already know in their culture.
Placing the figure dead center in the frame can create a kind of ambiguity. Placing it near the top tends to give the impression of floating upward, or of an impending plunge. Another graphic design concept is visual tension or imbalance, which is created by moving elements away from the center of the frame. A€ three-quarter portrait nude with the same pose and expression will have very different visual qualities depending on whether The hands �bursting out of the frame dramatize the space. The clipped fingers �emphasize the edge of the frame and the difference � between inside and out.