QUESTIONABLE VS. NON QUESTIONABLE IMAGERY WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE IN CLASS.

QUESTIONABLE VS. NON QUESTIONABLE IMAGERY WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE IN CLASS.

QUESTIONABLE Women No sexual positioning. Clothed and unclothed. No violence against women. No obvious glorification of drug usage, prostitution, or violence against women. Men The women s list works for men also. Just in case you were wondering.

DO I NEED TO GIVE EXAMPLES? Women I didn t think so. Men

WHAT IS BORDERLINE, BUT OKAY FOR THIS COURSE: Women Photo by Lincoln Clarkes, Vancouver. It is a prostitute. Is she glamorized? No. Is she fully dressed? Yes. Is she posed in a provocative manner? No. This can be shown in class.

BORDERLINE Men Jasontanner.photoshelter.com Is it glamourous? No, if anything it is completely heartbreaking and upsetting. Does it show private parts? No. Is it good photography that tells a story? Yes. Shot in Pakistan.

DRUG ABUSE IMAGERY Huffingtonpost.com Is it glamourous? No. Does it promote drug abuse? No.

FASHION IMAGERY Here is a no. Why? It holds no artistic value whatsoever. Outfit is ridiculous, revealing, and the model doesn t know what she is doing. Is it sexual? Yes, and there s no art to this. It s just some girl in ridiculous clothing lit with flat lighting. Even the skin tones are off. She should be darker to be what is in now. IT S EVEN TERRIBLE FOR 1985. In a nutshell, it ll take me 15 minutes to tell you where you went wrong, you will have a page of criticism and it ll be 15 minutes of my life I will never get back. I m not getting any younger.

HERE IS A YES Although a bit too thin for society. Plus she looks photoshopped as her shoulders are far too wide for her waist to be human. But not revealing. Not sexual. Artistic and interesting. Has some value. Photoholicms.wordpress.com Privates are not showing, no provocative posing. Just a lot of photoshop.

LINGERIE PHOTOGRAPHY Imgflip.com A simple. No. https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=qinouyrp0bi Did I ever share my story on having to photograph men s underwear? It took an hour. The longest hour of my life. I had to play Village People s YMCA over and over again as this was what the male model requested in an effort to feel comfortable. AN HOURS WORTH OF YMCA. JUST TO CLARIFY. I felt bad for the guy and hired him for a billboard for Metrotown shortly after. Was it glamourous? Have you listened to YMCA 15 times staring at one set of boxer shorts after another? OH, LUCKY FOR YOU, MRS. GILDER HAS THE SONG LINK UP TOP. Also, I had to keep calling in the makeup artist to paint in his 6 pack. It kept smudging. Oh, ummm, okay, we have pack area 4,it needs more shading. How would you feel as the male model? Hey everyone, the guy didn t spend enough time in the gym Did I ever do that again? No. But that day I had to as it was part of a catalog. Plus it was thrown at me last minute.

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHING ONE ANOTHER Don t attempt fashion in this class. It won t work. We don t have a clothing stylist, we don t have a makeup artist, we don t have a hair stylist. We don t have what it takes to do a fashion shoot. But we will do fashion portraiture. Which is skin tone darkening, photoshop, expression, lighting, face positioning. I will teach that given it is my background. We will not do body as again, read the blurb to your left. It will come off as cheesy unless we have the proper items in place.

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHING ONE ANOTHER Women If you do not wear makeup, don t start for this class. Not needed. If you do not normally wear body conscious clothing, don t start for this class. Not needed. Men If you do not wear makeup, don t start for this class. Not Needed. If you do not normally wear body conscious clothing, don t start for this class. Not needed.

RULE OF THUMB If you see a female posed in a certain manner, then replace her with a male and realize, the male looks ridiculous then don t show it in class. If it s sexual. No.

AM I GETTING MY POINT ACROSS? GQ Bondi Hipsters Yes, Mrs. Gilder paint bucketed the woman s chest. Example a male replacing the female. Does it look ridiculous? Yes. So don t use the female image. Got it? Good. If I see anything glamorizing sex, drugs, abuse, of any kind we will have a discussion.

WHEN WE GET TO PORTRAITURE, WE ARE LOOKING AT RESULTS SUCH AS THIS NY skin tones fasihon you are young enough, you can wear this. Yes this is fashion portraiture. Women, if you wish to wear makeup, its your call. Doesn t matter. Men, same thing. Agata Serge Photography. Makeup isn t really in now anyways.

AS FOR FULL LENGTH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY? NO. It won t work unless we have the game changers in play. Will I train you as fashion models. Just catalog positioning only.

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? Nil? Are we clear on expectations for this class? Good.