[pullquote author=""]How I melted my Pilates Ball with a Speedlite.[/pullquote]
My gym instructor makes me do an exercise that's a little like this. Of course, it looks far cooler when I'm not in a big floppy cotton tracksuit and drenched with sweat from the workout.
I saw an advert for an art nude and boudoir course and figured I'd put my name and money down for it. At first I hadn't appreciated that this was a course aimed at professional photographers, and so I had to get good fast! My initial experiments (with myself as model) are recorded in my practice set: a lot of room for improvement!
Many links in this post go to images which are definitely not safe for work!
I like to think that I am neither a prude nor a sex maniac; that I can appreciate both the erotic and the sensual in art. To me "nude photography" is very much on the sensual side of that scale, a delight for the visual sense but not providing the titillation of the erotic. It is about form, lighting, and the presentation of the human form. As humans we find the human form beautiful, aesthetically and sexually attractive, but I think we've lost our way somewhere between the two.
Flash on bedside table pointed at silver reflector on ceiling. Manual focus, self-timer, camera tethered to laptop, tighter crop, some post-processing. There are more on Flickr, but the photos in the set are marked "moderate" so you'll need to be a registered Flickr user to see them.
