Silk's recent thread prompted me to try and start this thread - how about we share tips on taking piccies? Judging from the personal pages, there's some damn good photographers on here, so how about helping everyone get up to speed on it?
I'll start it off with some pretty basic ones mostly for nude or semi nude -
Avoid tight clothing few several hours beforehand (knickers and bra-straps can leave marks on the skin)
Practice tensing the muscles before the shot - arching the back or pulling in the buttocks can make the skin look more toned and 'beautiful'.
Try to take the shot so the hips are angled - for instance, the person being photographed is sideways on but turning the upper body towards the camera. Practically anyone who just stands face on to the camera has less aesthetic looking thighs than if they turn at an angle.
For a softer look, use a zoom (softens the relative distance between the end of the nose and the face for instance) or high grain film or a soft filter or smear vaseline (very thinly) on the lens.
High grain film (eg 1400 ASA) is also useful because it means you can shoot indoors without flash. Unless you have professional flash equipment, and (worst) certainly a flash that is attached to the camera, flash will tend to 'bleach' the skin tones.
You can get some very funky effects (PM me for an example or i can post it here if anyone wants) using a slide projector. Take a modern art slide and project it across your subject's nude body to wrap her in silky colours. A dark or black background helps.
Check out your subject's most alluring expressions (easiest to do when just chatting or socialising). They are like fingerprints - everyone's expressions are different. See what stimulates those expressions - a joke? talking about things close to their heart? their dreams? It might be something sexual, but the main rule to make a photo look sexy (rather than just pornographic) is to invest it with emotion.
A simple one to get a 'spontaneous' expression is to say to the subject to look down and away from the camera. When you are ready to release the shutter, ask them to look up and click immediately. The face general has a spontaeous expression until it has had time to 'freeze' on whatever it is looking at. Ot ask them to look at the camera as if they were in love with it, or to 'give it some attitude' (not all subjects willl manage this).
If you have a motor drive or put your stuff through Photoshop, all sorts of things are possible. Carol and I did some recently and I only took them with the intention of creating some modern art pics in photoshop - but both Carol and her husband Fred preferred the 'unaltered' shots! (Carol had one up as an avatar briefly). Some times the result is nice even if not what you expected, so use lots of film and fling the cr*p ones in the bucket teehee!
Maybe peeps know of websites with good tips too?
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Did you copy and paste this or is it your own work?
It's my own - stuff I've used for ages. I used to do photography as a second job (travel and also model portfolios inc occasional nudes). Many of the tips are fairly standard though - most photographers would know them
Sex God
I just point the camera and shoot, then delete the ones that don't come out good. I thought that's what everyone did 
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:? :? I'm sure there's much better photographers out there that can add more knowledge than I can. Funnily enough the hardest part (I found) of doing it as a job was handling the 'scene' - knowing who to trust, who to let owe you money. A lot of the contacts were late at night at clubs and things and the work often meant getting up very early to get the best light (or borrow the boutiques clothes early in the morning). the reason I gave it up was I was in Paris, had spent four hours photographing statues in the Louvre, then later roaming town put my camera bag (with three bodies and all my lenses and filters etc) down for a few seconds and forgot to pick it up. Needless to say it wasn;t still there when I got back. Gutted. :cry: btw Carol and I both liked your use of background (silk sheets) on your avatar, Miz_Naughty. We had to make do with a wooden desk in my office - I believe it got a bit hard (the desk) after a bit . . . 
Sex God
First tip , get a long legged large breasted gorgeous Canadian Model , who's smile lights up the room so much you dont require artificial flash .
Quote by Silk and Big G
First tip , get a long legged large breasted gorgeous Canadian Model , who's smile lights up the room so much you dont require artificial flash .
You know guys, sometimes Big G says the sweetest things.
And I know I don't have to tell you this silky cause you already know. But I'm going to anyway... you lucky gir!
I have that "happy for you" kinda envy of you guys, if that made any sense at all? :P
Quote by Libra-Love
First tip , get a long legged large breasted gorgeous Canadian Model , who's smile lights up the room so much you dont require artificial flash .
You know guys, sometimes Big G says the sweetest things.
And I know I don't have to tell you this silky cause you already know. But I'm going to anyway... you lucky gir!
I have that "happy for you" kinda envy of you guys, if that made any sense at all? :P
Actually, I have to agree with you Libra-Love. I think it's great when a guy ain't afraid to show his apreciation of his wife/partner. Big G - you should run a finishing school for lads in their late teens - that tells them how to treat a lady
Orgasminator
Quote by bluexxx
I just point the camera and shoot, then delete the ones that don't come out good. I thought that's what everyone did
Thats exactly what I do... and I guess I dont take a bad pic using that method, lol.
The truth is that even the most experienced pros use that method... any "P3" shot probably had between 50 and 200 that were not chosen from the session, the only real difference between what I do and what is done with film is I use the camera as a light meter, then a polaroid, then "film." its far quicker and "instant" and most pro togs also do it that way now... unless they need to shoot in MF (medum format film) but the basic principle of shoot lots, choose the best will always hold true unless its a spur of the moment, never to be seen again, shot like JLB (jean luc bessan, spelling?) but even then... not all his "spur of the moments" were that, lol.
I have yet to have an exact "shot" or exact idea I want... and fully pose it, as apposed to a concept of the look... I much prefer the "do what you do best, and i'll run arround taking 'pics'" and then choose what works... after all a BDSM or fetish shot, I think, looks far better if it has a natural realisum about it not some styleised "portrait" look... but its that which sells :-(
Any fecker can do a P3 or standrad glamour shot... its purely technical... the set up is constant, the models change... but some of the sexiest and most sensual photos i've seen have to come from the shots in adverts or peoples personal gallerys... (Silk n BigG spring to mind, and also your own pages :-P) because they dont look "fake" and dont look as tho thay are faked real (as in razzles "studio models" et. al.)
I've a few pointers to the OP's post, but will leave that till the morrow as i'm knackered after the munch and the bdsm do last night, lol... but in simple terms, take as many photos as you can, and keep taking them... because even if they never see the light of day, at least you will be able to look back at them and go "cor fuck me... that was fun!"
Sex God
Quote by Libra-Love
First tip , get a long legged large breasted gorgeous Canadian Model , who's smile lights up the room so much you dont require artificial flash .
You know guys, sometimes Big G says the sweetest things.
And I know I don't have to tell you this silky cause you already know. But I'm going to anyway... you lucky gir!
I have that "happy for you" kinda envy of you guys, if that made any sense at all? :P
It makes flawless sense. You're only revealing how I feel, every morning when I get out of bed.
Silky xxxxxxx
Sex God
Quote by edinbughchris
Judging from the personal pages, there's some damn good photographers on here...
...and if they'd just send me links to these personal pages, I could add them to the Swinging Heaven Photo Album!
~Reese!
Sex God
Ok cool! will get them to you after the weekend!
Sex God
Quote by Silk and Big G
Ok cool! will get them to you after the weekend!
Thanks! :thumbup:
