Saturday, October 9, 2010

NEW EBOOK: LIGHTING THE EVOCATIVE NUDE

NEW EBOOK: LIGHTING THE EVOCATIVE NUDE

20 Techniques and Tips for Beautiful Images

By Christopher Grey

Hot on the heals of his super popular 101 Inspiring Poses for Beauty and Glamour Photoraphy, Christopher Grey delivers Lighting the Evocative Nude.
Photographs of the nude, should you wish to define them, come in many flavors, with each having its own set of “rules” that govern the look. This eBook will investigate the “evocative” nude, a word defined in some dictionaries as “expressive,” “impressionistic,” or images that “tend to promote an emotional response.” Images made under this mind-set tend to be “inwardly-directed” by the model, which is to say that they deal with an idea the model is directed to explore, rather than a pose that will appease the viewer.

Evocative nude images, unlike those that are lit without emotion and represent the body in relatively flat light, are accented with shadow to help make the point. To my mind, lighting evocatively usually means to not light everything. Evocative nude photographs rarely show the model making eye contact with the camera. Eye contact assumes a familiarity with the viewer. If youʼre attempting to produce a work of art with the widest possible audience appeal, you may wish to pose your model with eyes averted. One other consideration for evocative nudes is that the modelʼs face might be hidden. Viewers tend to associate visible faces with people they know or facial types they like or donʼt like. Itʼs not an indictment of anything, just a fact of how people look at nudes as art.

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