For Your Consideration

[JeanieDraws]

Hi all!

What little talent I bring to Literotica is visual in nature. Erotic photography is one of my passions, so here are a few examples of my work for your consideration. I'm presenting these images in black and white because I believe black and white does a better job of drawing the viewer's eye to the essense of an erotic image.

Enjoy!

Fine print and legal b.s.: The subjects of the photos shown here are professional models and/or friends. I have releases granting reproduction and publication rights for all of the images. All models are at least 18 years of age.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

First impressions:

04---Is minimal and elegant, hinting at the mood. Love the contrast of colors and levels, and the lines are superb. Wonderful piece (though small but I am chalking that up to lit's size limits).

05-- The focus is the knots and thighs, and it should be. I think if you had cropped just a bit more to the left, to not include the edge of pantie and pussy it would be more powerful. The contrast is hard to achieve when there's not a lot of room to adjust. Maybe a darker sheet, or black silk ropes, actually yeah darker silk ropes to emphasize the bondage and the romanticism.

07-- I think the angle is slightly off, or it needs to crop just above the hips. The elongation of her upper torso is jarring. I would suggest either going longer to include her face and hands, give it longer look and more shallow depth of field to obscure her face or crop at the hips and widen it to include her left knee.

08-- Would make a great conclusion to a triptych kind of series but by itself is bit too aggressive. Cocks are not easy to shoot and capture aesthetics. Maybe a set of three, the first the jeans slightly open and you see the bulge in his briefs, then the second more open and the tip is exposed over the top, insinuating his growing arousal, the third as you have it, the culmination of turning him and thus your viewer on completely.

Then again I'm not an art professor, I just like sounding knowledgable

Do keep it up, and keep posting. I would like to see what else you come up with.

 

[JeanieDraws]

Thank you for your critique. You do, indeed, sound quite knowledgeable. I'd say you have an excellent eye for composition.

I particularly agree with your thoughts on five and seven. It might help to know that these images were made during a shoot of opportunity at which I had none of the control one would have at a studio session. The action happened and I shot it. I was also somewhat hindered by my decision to maintain a 2:3 image ratio in the final product for a particular publication application.

I agree that number eight would work well at the end of a sequence. (That may be why they invented motion pictures! ) From a woman's point of view, however, this image makes an in-your-face statement as it stands. To me the image says, "Okay, this is how it is. Will you stay or go?"

 

[zraddish]

Love a good boudoir photo!

Ok so here is MHO.
I love b/w, soft focus and I am big on contrast. dark shadows but not blow out in the highlights.
The first #4 is elegant with smooth lines and not overly busy.It could easily be used for an ad. Though not for shoes I think.It speaks of things to come.
The second #5 for me needs more contrast with perhaps the rest of the photo in very soft focus. The ropes being the sharpest.
The third #7 seems is flat. Perhaps the sheet being darker,and the shadow areas on her body darker as well. To me she doesn't jump off the sheet she blends.
The last one #8 I think the member needs more shape and his hair darker. Perhaps the tip darker. It reminds me of model posing for art students. Almost clinical
As Salvor-Hardon suggested perhaps a suite of images leading up to this one?
For me the sexy or erotic is not what is seen but what is glimpsed or imagined. Again I like contrast.
I take nature, travel pictures and can't shoot people for life of me.
I resisted digital cameras for while, and though I use and know photoshop I always felt it was cheating. But I have grown to like it and use it. Just another tool. For me it has saved what was a soso shot, composed well, but the lighting was off. I still use film, now also digital. I love CS3 and now take RAW format pictures.
Your pictures are very good, subject, composition. For last minute on the spur of the moment pretty damn good.
Look forward to seeing more