Some low key nudes, as promised. Thank you so very much to Luci for modelling for these. You’re a star!
Here’s a cropped version of the last image above to better show the details on Luci’s face.
“The female nude – magical, erotic, aesthetic – has been modeled and painted since prehistory. Appearing rarely and awkwardly in the earliest art, she attained fulfillment and glory in ancient Greece. In their idealized treatment of the nude, The Greeks established a standard that only the asceticism of the Middle Ages ignored. The artists of the Renaissance and their successors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revived the nude, and by the 1930’s she was again a conventional form. It was inevitable that she should become a favorite subject of photography.” – Peter Lacey. Introduction , History of the Nude in Photography by Peter Lacey and Anthony La Rotonda , ISBN: 0552082473 , Page: 6
Date: March 30, 2011Author: Diaan Mynhardt
Medium: Digital
Camera: Canon 5D Mk II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm 1:4
Location: 601
Tags: B&W, breast, low key, luci, model, nude, point, sexy, star
Love this series. Thanks Luci, Diaan. Black & white does them justice too. Love the skin tones you’ve captured. Luci’s great shape doesn’t harm either …
Thanks Daz. The skin tones were in fact the raison d’etre for the photos. I wanted that smooth marble white on black that I’ve seen elsewhere, and I think I managed passably.
Lovely!
I thought you’d like these…
<3
Stunning Photos very good shots well done.
Yo thanks!
This series is killa, love the black and white touch
Thanks a log guy!
Very nice. Did you use a filter, or is that photoshopped?
You should know me by now… PS all the way.
Have you tried experimenting with filters? It appears that your experiments with lighting is paying off.
Also, how about doing a series of [tasteful] nudes outdoors, in natural light?
Hmm… what sort of filters?
I have thought of doing outdoor nudes. Specifically adding art nudes to landscapes. Finding places where I can do this is proving to be a problem in the city. I have to get out to a place where there won’t be a lot of people.
Filters and gels…you know for your lenses. To create effects.
I’m sure SA still has a lot of secluded places. Early morning might be best…