Not really Glamour

[grsphoto]

From a session last week... comments welcome

[Sean_Armenta]

i like this a LOT. she looks like she works out -- or does a lot of dishes by the veins in her hand [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] but i think the former seeing as how she's built [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

nice work -- nitpick: i'd clone out the hair falling behind her back to make it more streamlined.


sean

[Clint]

what is not glamourous about this image....very nice

[grsphoto]

Most good glamour images have one thing in common, eye contact with the model.

This image is more a figure study.

Glenn

[photoknight]

Beautiful image. What's not lit is as important as what is lit. This is certainly a glamour image.

James

[grsphoto]

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This is certainly a glamour image.

James


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I have to disagree.

In order to be a glamour image there should be a contact or connection with the model. This is usually developed with eye contact. Once you have the eye contact, the act of breaking the contact to look at the rest of the image creates a tension that enhances the sexuality of the pose.

Most nudes and fashion images do not have eye contact, because the purpose of the image is for you scan the pose ( or the clothes) not to make a connection with the model. This is why the vacant stare is so popular in fashion, and nude figure studies don't have eyes.

grs

an image with eyes

[glennusdin]

says who?

[grsphoto]

If you look at playboy or any classic pin-ups most of them have eye contact. If you look at the images that get posted on the front page of this forum... how many don't have the eyes.

If you look at any of the classic nudes, both photography and painting, and the common denominator is the lack of eye contact.

I would like to take credit for this idea but I heard it expressed years ago, and I haven't seen many examples that conteract it.

grs

[mhickey]

I think the discussion about whether or not the image is glamour is a disservice to a very nice image. It does not meet the definition of glamour that I have always heard but it is a classic fine art study.

Mike

[grsphoto]

Mike, as the original poster of the image I don't mind if it is used as an example of what is and is not glamour ( and thanks for your compliment).

How do you define a glamour image?

Glenn