View Full Version : Have You Ever Shot Someone N'ked?
NickTrop
03-14-2008, 17:29
Personally, I don't see the point of it. If it's cold, it causes "shrinkage" which is embarrassing if you're a guy. You can also get arrested for not wearing anything in most parts of the world. I simply don't see how taking pictures without wearing clothes improves your photography. It might also make your subject uncomfortable, especially if they don't know who you are, out doing street photography.
And yet, many people do it.
SolaresLarrave
03-14-2008, 17:32
I haven't.
My problem is lack of imagination. What do you do so that a nude looks artistic?
I guess there are lots of ways to do that, but I just don't find myself too interested into doing this kind of photography.
I have to confess that sometimes when I go off to my secluded little darkroom/studio in the trees to develop a couple of films I will divest myself of all apparel.
Does this classify me as a nude photographer ... or maybe just an eccentric menace to decency! :p
I don't shoot naked unless I'm home - I get too cold and have no place to carry my film if I'm naked. ;)
photomoof
03-14-2008, 17:40
Nude darkroom work, if you use your bathroom, you can just step in the shower and rise off all that nasty fixer?
I most certainly have not! I have remained fully clothed throughout all of the porno stuff.
I am disappointed you should think otherwise
I took a photo of my wife 1/2 n'ked one time years ago. She gave me a stern look and I lied stating there was no film in the camera. I immediatily ran down to the basement & developed my first roll of film. It was Plus X125 in D-76. Oh what fun!;) I developed it with my clothes on BTW. Wearing loose pants of course!:D
Porn is art too, Nick.
And no I haven't.
Morca007
03-14-2008, 18:11
I have yet to make a photograph without the aid of my clothes. I should try it sometime.
Sometime when I am not in public, because getting arrested sounds like no fun, and getting arrested while naked sounds like even less fun.
...not even in a dream. Maybe I am old fashioned and "outdated" like some film based cameras.
Yes but only if she gets nekkid too...:p :p
I keep a camera within arms reach of my bed for a surprise print in the morning.
Al Patterson
03-14-2008, 18:55
Yes, but that story and the photos aren't going to be posted on the Internet...
JeffGreene
03-14-2008, 18:56
I generally process film fully clothed. I've no interest in working otherwise. I did take a "glamour" photography workshop about fifteen years ago. To be quite honest, it really wasn't all that interesting. I prefer landscape/street/architectural shots. Now if a naked young woman happened to run by while I was otherwise occupied, I might attempt to get a shot! :D
bean_counter
03-14-2008, 19:09
I once had to use a shotgun to shoot a squirel that had the mange. Not sure if it was nekked, but it didn't have much fur.
Like Al said, the internet is not the place for such stories from me.
Bob Michaels
03-14-2008, 19:38
Do self portraits count?
back alley
03-14-2008, 20:00
i've shot AT nekid people...does that count?
I should have read the post before I voted..... :-S
Yeah, yer mom.
(thought I better ad a ;))
jan normandale
03-14-2008, 20:20
Nick, I live north of the 49th parallel... of course it's possible to shoot naked but you have to be hardy. Usually most naked photographers are coming out of a sauna and they are typically baked. Etymologically they are "baked" in several meanings of the word.
I keep a camera within arms reach of my bed for a surprise print in the morning.
Macro ... ? :angel: :p
Macro ... ? :angel: :p
Is it that small??? :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D
First at all - art nude is a very difficult sort of photography.
Also - as a photographer you have to feel borders between
art nude, as a photography of human beaty,
erotic, as a photography of human body,
porno, as a photography of ...
I did art nude and I want to do it more.
Here is example of art nude - http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=57877 main idea is a story and what's wrong there? Maybe I'll post more and each picture will be a story, context, beaty.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody in my family has ever been naked.
Pherdinand
03-16-2008, 15:14
hee-hee-hee.
yes... i used to shoot softcore stuff...
John Robertson
03-16-2008, 16:11
Only if I want the subject to be laughing hysterically!!
crawdiddy
03-16-2008, 18:11
Naked subject? Yes.
Naked photographer? Yes.
But it was a self portrait, and both subject and photographer were disappointed with the results.
Loads of times. 1st in 1983 during finish of Oxford/Cambridge boat race on river Thames. A well endowed 18 yr old streaked along the winning team on the landing stage kissing them. Shot on an Nikon F2 with a 180 and her 'coming' directly towards me down the line of rowers Great pic but the paper :- Sunday Express refused to use it. Editor Sir John Junor " We can't publish that , this is a family newspaper!" Oh well such is life. Bet it would have sold a few thousand more copies though.
Bob Michaels
03-16-2008, 18:50
Last year I investigated doing a photo essay on the regular visitors of a local naturist beach I occasionally visit. (Playlinda Beach, Canaveral National Seashore in FL) I have always been intrigued by their independent thought and ability to ignore what mainstream society thought normal.
This section of Federal public beach had always been clothing optional with no issues until the local county passed an ordinance prohibiting nudity about ten years ago. Then a public legal dispute arose if the Feds were required to enforce a local ordinance. Although the Feds won and it remains unregulated, the publicity brought voyeurs and sexual activity to what had previously been a family environment.
I found the old time regulars were so put off by the numbers of people who had come to photograph "naked people" and make sexual suggestions that each photo session took an unreasonable amount of time to develop a relationship. I ended up abandoning the potential project.
Jamie Pillers
03-16-2008, 22:29
Yeah, I'd shoot nekid, but only when using my DSLR, when I get to take advantage of that 1.5 multiplication factor. ;-)
photomoof
03-16-2008, 23:03
As we know from the recent movie Barnyard, udders are funny.
Chuck Albertson
03-17-2008, 09:15
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I'll never know.
NickTrop
03-17-2008, 09:32
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I'll never know.
A Groucho quote?!?! You, sir, are an upstart!
You can also get arrested for not wearing anything in most parts of the world
"I am arresting you on a charge of not wearing anything in most parts of the world" :)
I once took a photo of my wife, suffering from an excess of alcohol, sitting naked on the toilet. My bruises faded quite quickly, thankfully.
Ronald_H
03-17-2008, 10:36
Yes, naked subject. Project was to get to a usable CD cover. It worked.
Yes, naked me. But let's not go there.
Leighgion
03-17-2008, 16:03
Yeah, but the bullets bounced off anyway. It was amazing! :)
Chuck Albertson
03-17-2008, 16:28
A Groucho quote?!?! You, sir, are an upstart!
I was a Marxist in college.
Personally, I don't see the point of it. If it's cold, it causes "shrinkage" which is embarrassing if you're a guy. You can also get arrested for not wearing anything in most parts of the world. I simply don't see how taking pictures without wearing clothes improves your photography. It might also make your subject uncomfortable, especially if they don't know who you are, out doing street photography.
And yet, many people do it.
Pictures of my kid with his birthday suit were quite nice. :)
I made some pics of a couple of horses while I was naked, except for the camera and sun-cream, does that count ?
(Nothing kinky, it was at a very quiet beach on a lake and the horses were coming down to drink).
MRohlfing
03-19-2008, 15:06
Naked most beautiful subject, yes.
Naked photographer, yes. Naked except for my hiking shoes.
The subject took a picture of the photographer later, too. The picture looks rather funny because of those shoes, the most precious parts are out of focus though.
FallisPhoto
03-19-2008, 15:21
Are you asking if I shoot while I am naked, or are you asking if I have ever shot someone else while they were naked? In the latter case, the answer is: naked no, nude yes -- many times.
Ara Ghajanian
03-20-2008, 07:31
Although I've shot a few here and there, I'm not really into nude photography. I love the female body (believe me I do), but I think the whole nude modeling thing is so played out. If you look on a site like modelmayhem.com, you've got all these dirty old men with digicams shooting any girl who'll take her clothes off. I've heard a few horror stories and I think that turned me off to the whole thing.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen shoots himself in the nude in nature. His work is amazing in general, but I think in his case the human body is used very effectively in a photograph. I tried doing this type of work once and it's not easy. Check his stuff out.
Ara
dazedgonebye
03-24-2008, 15:15
I've tried, but every time I take my clothes off, the model runs away screaming.
No one "gets" me artistically.
Yes, but nobody noticed. .Story of my life.
skibeerr
03-25-2008, 03:41
My wife had a go at me...... oh the sweet taste of revenge.
...in other words "were you naked when shot someone?"
..."are you a naked hitman?"
1. wasn't
2. I am not
landsknechte
03-29-2008, 10:16
I came close, but thankfully never had to go through with it... Years ago, when I was living in a crappy apartment whilst in college and working the night shift, the landlord decided to make an unannounced visit to work on the plumbing. He didn't bother to let me know that he was coming in advance, and apparently I slept through the doorbell. I awoke mid-afternoon to hear someone rummaging around in the other room. I never did shoot him, but the sight of a buck nekkid and bleary eyed moi stumbling out of the bedroom with a pistol in hand certainly did cure him of his tendency to do maintenance unannounced.
mcctoronto
03-29-2008, 11:27
I find nude photography to be creepy and the male "photographers" who shoot it even creepier.
literiter
03-29-2008, 16:52
I find nude photography to be creepy and the male "photographers" who shoot it even creepier.
In the '60s I was a healthy young boy pervert with a camera. I found many young women perverts for the camera. That was the time I guess.
Nowadays I shoot mountains, rivers, streams, rocks and critters. But underneath this indolent, craggy saggy old carcase is a creepy old pervert. My wife will tell you this. Watch out, their are lots of us out there.
Why yes I have.
Never with a camera though.
myoptic3
04-05-2008, 05:02
Isn't that why digital cameras were invented?
Polaroid: instant results for lighting set-ups, exposure tests, and so you wouldn't have to to let someone else print those pictures of your girlfriend. :)
Michael I.
04-16-2008, 05:39
I don't shoot naked unless I'm home - I get too cold and have no place to carry my film if I'm naked. ;)
There's always a place for one canister and with some practice,several.;)
savantcreative
04-30-2008, 09:23
I believe that there are 2 significantly different terms to be defined here.
Nudes versus Naked. I have shot many nudes.
Best
Yes to both, but a long time ago. What is interesting to read in the posts is the implicit prudery concerning the word 'naked', this despite that fact that there are important occasions in life when being naked is appropriate. If I was younger, I might be able to remember what they were or might be.
I've only ever taken pictures of girlfriends/partners with their knowledge (they posed etc) also video hehe :) only for our viewing though. I think its fun to have a camera handy in the bedroom
hoteesgnal
05-15-2008, 02:08
I have the Terry Richardson philosophy on photography.
In his wise words, "there is a good reason why there is a hole in the front of my pants."
yes. And it's a fond memory with no bruises. A bit of sadness when I think how much I miss her, but it's a glorious shot on so many levels. I would take serious issue with anyone who suggested people who take pictures of naked people are somehow creepy. Even if they are naked. :)
Gabriel M.A.
05-24-2008, 10:03
Personally, I don't see the point of it. If it's cold, it causes "shrinkage" which is embarrassing if you're a guy.
Oh, I see, you mean you shooting n'ked, not someone n'ked.
Emm...I'm trying to remember. I think so... It certainly wasn't cold.
David R Munson
05-24-2008, 11:17
I've done some nudes, but not nearly as many as I would like. I've got a ton of ideas, but having come from a background in commercial photography, a lot of them involve very complex setups that I just don't have the resources to make happen. Have you ever looked up the cost of building a backlit jellyfish tank? Pricey...
In all seriousness, though, probably the biggest reason I haven't done any more than I have (which hasn't been nearly enough) is just the fact that I am a chronic introvert and as such have a really hard time finding models.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-creepy-squirrel-camera-park.jpg
MikeCassidy
06-19-2008, 16:11
I find nude photography to be creepy and the male "photographers" who shoot it even creepier.
Julia Camerono, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange are women so I guess not creepy?!?
Men shooting Women: Ed Weston, Bill Brandt
How men shooting men: Robert Maplethorpe?
Why not take nude pics of your beloved ones, like wife or kids ? Sure you have to control album when guests come.
If we exclude "tits and bits" factor, nude body not covered by clothes is statement of truth. Too bad nude is overused by "artists" or simple fetishists. Also modern culture is wrong about nude - on one hand, there's taboo and on another - everything is about taboo, driving instincts.
If nails or hair would be taboo, I'm sure there would be pictures showing nails and hair in many ways. Go find them now in quantities like nudes are.
Shot while n'ked, shot of n'ked, was shot n'ked, was shot by n'ked ....
Heck of a conjugation .....:D
shimo-kitasnap
06-20-2008, 07:15
you people from the 60s are awsome! I wish there were more open and willing females today......:(
williams473
06-20-2008, 08:50
To anyone bemoaning the fact that there aren't enough willing female models, why not try shooting male models? If I ever shoot nudes (which will probably be never because I find nudes a lot like landscape - pretty boring) I would start with male nudes. I'm not sure I could photograph females without it being primarily sexual in nature, which would make the images more like porn than art for me. Then again, some of the greatest nudes in Art were done by an artist lusting after his model - Michalengelo's David, Rodin and Camille Claudel, Weston and his models... how sexually charged should nude photography be before it become porn?
photomoof
07-22-2008, 14:32
how sexually charged should nude photography be before it become porn?
That is the question, however many artists have managed, the series of paintings that Pierre Bonnard made of his wife Marthe in the bath come to mind:
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/N/N04/N04495_9.jpg
Surely you'd keep your socks on so you could keep spare rolls of film somewhere??
kennethcooke
07-31-2008, 17:27
I have to confess that sometimes when I go off to my secluded little darkroom/studio in the trees to develop a couple of films I will divest myself of all apparel.
Does this classify me as a nude photographer ... or maybe just an eccentric menace to decency! :p
Thanks for sharing that with the group Keith
Carlitos
08-01-2008, 12:24
I have. I can't show you all the 'naked' ones buy I can show you a couple of 'nudes'. :)
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=90169&ppuser=20609
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=90175&ppuser=20609
When I was in college I took a photography course and we had a model sit for us nude. I didn't think much of it as I had taken drawing courses with a nude sitter before. I remember trying to take close-up shots to abstract the body and produce pseudo-landscape images. I still have those somewhere.
Have you ever heard of Carlo Mollino? He was an Italian architect who in the 1960s shot over 2000 nude Polaroids of working girls at his apartment in Torino, Italy. They're quite interesting and a book (http://www.designboom.com/world/mollino/polaroid/) was published on the body of work. Now THAT'S dedication to one's craft!
Here's (http://www.postmedia.net/06/mollino.htm) a few more of his photos.
Roger Hicks
08-23-2008, 14:21
It's taken me a long time to respond, because I couldn't believe how long this schoolboyish thread has endured.
OF COURSE I have. I'm a child of the 60s (or of the universe -- much the same thing). No nude pix for several years now, though.
I'd have thought it was pretty weird for any photographer under about 60 (or since the invention of Polaroid, so make it 80) NOT to have done so. As Hugivza says, the weird thing is the implicit prudery in this thread.
And yes, that applies either way: photographer naked, model naked. Why the * in 'naked' and what's wrong with 'nude'? Part of the same prudery, I suppose...
Cheers,
R.
literiter
08-23-2008, 18:41
I was born in 1945.
In the '60s I was a child man trying to grow up with "free love" unprescribed medications, long hair, some of the most extraordinarily marvelous music (ever) and lovely young women (who were likely as confused as I was). Roger may be a child of the '60s but in truth I must admit to being a child in my 60s.
I wasn't at Woodstock, don't even know where Haight Ashbury is, but I lived in the time and for that I'm really grateful.
There are people I know now, and am very fond of, who I'd like to visit that time but I cannot take them there. I'd just be some old fart ranting about his youth.
But what a time!
It's taken me a long time to respond, because I couldn't believe how long this school-boyish thread has endured.
OF COURSE I have. I'm a child of the 60s (or of the universe -- much the same thing). No nude pix for several years now, though.
I'd have thought it was pretty weird for any photographer under about 60 (or since the invention of Polaroid, so make it 80) NOT to have done so. As Hugivza says, the weird thing is the implicit prudery in this thread.
And yes, that applies either way: photographer naked, model naked. Why the * in 'naked' and what's wrong with 'nude'? Part of the same prudery, I suppose...
Cheers,
R.
Roger, the phrasing of the OP was a bit of an invitation to "school-boyish" and I gather tongue in cheek replies.
My last two serious models were both from Prague, and neither were particularly prudes, both have since taken up photography, one rather seriously.
I have not found it to be a particularly easy subject, perhaps with more time and effort it might become so, and I posted one in the Gallery that I thought reflected some of what I see when I am around Petra, who is an interesting and only coincidentally very attractive young person.
All portraits, in the ideal, perhaps should either tell you something of the person, or at least make you feel as if you know something of them. From limited experience, I have to work with someone a few times to be comfortable.
The abstract treatment is another subset, with the form and light the essence.
I do not work with nudes much in the US, way too much cultural baggage, and while there are many things to admire about the US, there may be too much pop in the culture, at least by volume. I think the weird thing is the explicit prudery expressed, but I kind of expect it with the at large.
Regards, John
OurManInTangier
09-09-2008, 12:45
I've experimented with both the arty nude photos and the more lurid 'home porn' when I was younger. I failed pretty miserably at both ( though had some fun and learned new things along the way) but then as others have mentioned, it just doesn't do it for me.
I find some forms of photographic subject less interesting than others and therefore spend less time viewing and searching for new imagery in that realm. However when its done well, and preferably well and differently, it can be incredible. I find most landscape images really dull but some photographers consistently blow me away with their vision of the world's landscapes.
I did photograph a professional dancer whilst she composed herself into various 'stills' from a routine whilst she was nude. Before I did it I was nervous, curious and yes, excited. By the time we'd finished I noticed she was naked as much as she noticed I was clothed. Some non photographer (male) friends often rib me and ask why I don't do Porn photos....I can't think of anything worse, imagine being surrounded by good looking naked women and no longer caring or being interested.
photomoof
09-09-2008, 14:54
It's taken me a long time to respond, because I couldn't believe how long this schoolboyish thread has endured.
OF COURSE I have. I'm a child of the 60s (or of the universe -- much the same thing). No nude pix for several years now, though.
I'd have thought it was pretty weird for any photographer under about 60 (or since the invention of Polaroid, so make it 80) NOT to have done so. As Hugivza says, the weird thing is the implicit prudery in this thread.
And yes, that applies either way: photographer naked, model naked. Why the * in 'naked' and what's wrong with 'nude'? Part of the same prudery, I suppose...
Cheers,
R.
Man you guys (not just Roger) have different priorities than I do, when I get 'em naked I have sex.
Afterwards I sleep or have pizza.
Afterwards I sleep or have pizza.
Come on Fred, you know you like to cuddle afterwards. It's okay to admit it.
Shooting kids naked [in the USA] can get you in prison.
modell naked : yes
me naked : no
Long time ago, at a Mediterranean beach.:) :)
Al Kaplan
09-19-2008, 13:37
Yes, but with one exception it was the subject who wanted to be photographed in the nude. The exeption? My son was born "natural childbirth", my wife was wide awake throughout the delivery, and I was there as her "coach". I took photos of the entire birth, from the "crowning" when the top of the head first appears, right on through the doctor holding my nude 10 lb. 2 oz. son aloft. I shot the circumcision too. I used Tri-X with Leica M4 and M2-R bodies equipped with 35 and 50mm Summicrons.
Yes, three times, three different models for my personal book
After having attended a professional fashion course, I took the opportunity to follow some glamour workshops near Milan.
It was something really natural, especially the first time for the ability of the Czech model. The other two workshop, especially the second, were full of vulgar girls, no real models, who thought to be on a hot line. I saved just a couple of shots of a full day.
We need to see examples, please ...Dino.
[just joking]
Yes, but with one exception it was the subject who wanted to be . I shot the circumcision too. I used Tri-X with Leica M4 and M2-R bodies equipped with 35 and 50mm Summicrons.
Only attended two Briss', second one I had a camera, and honest, the Moil actually quipped, no flash during the cutting. Most people were cringing, and I had no intention of firing a flash at the "decisive moment". Obviously I have no idea how to spell these terms, but aside from the chopped liver, I am not looking forward to any such future events. ;-)
Cutter was fast.
Regards, John
Al Kaplan
09-19-2008, 16:13
My wife was Protestant so the doc who delivered him did the circumcision right after the birth. After graduating a Presbytarian seminary he discovered his Jewish roots and converted to Judaism (lucky he was already circumcised!). Now he's a rabbi. Go figure?
I've seen this thread before but never responded to it!
I have photographed a couple of nudes, once, a male nude in a Duane Michals photo-workshop, (a wonderful experience) and a couple of times of medical patients. Not really "nudes", but Joel Peter Witkin might approve.
I really enjoyed drawing nudes in night classes at the local art college. Highly recommended to any photographer who wants to photograph nudes. It gives you a respect for looking at the body that separates you from the typical influence (porn!) that I think a lot of photographers fall into.
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