I adore white skin, as it is so full of royalty, mystic \ fairytale \ cold-hearted mood and creates perfect contrast with the space around.
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I adore dark skin, as the hard light, skin imperfections, lack of makeup and many other aspects do not spoil it at all.
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I love hard light, as it creates great contraast, helps with emphasis, creation of artistically justified illuminations of extra sharpness if necessary (or with an open aperture), texture and so on.
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I love soft light, its intimacy, harmony in lights and shades, rich tones and abilities to operate with and deep portraits.
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I love grain, its artistic vibes and atmosphere, reminding about film photography, ability to turn into the nise and vice versa, helping with finding the "bad spots" on the picture or ability to be transformed into a kind of sharpness replacer when needed.
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I love blur, as it helps to hide the imperfections, turn the less valuable details into a space around the important points of depiction and emphasize the composition center.
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I love the plainair shootings, as they are the most true ones, they unite us with the inner and outer nature, and they can be quite moody, fruitful, free...and at the sime time they can be quite risky ;) Also, they are, as a rule, less expensive than the indoor ones, also they are, in their own way, simplier when shoosing the outfit, make-up and sometimes with the light features as well.
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I love indoor shootings, as they have more friendly atmosphere in the meaning of the home feelings - all those kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and so on; also, they are, at one hand, harder to be created due to the need for the photographer to "fit in" the room space, to pick up the better light, angle and so on; the studio shootings are way too easier with the light which helps the photographer to not depend on the natural light only, and to be able to play with the artificial lights and shades in order to create something interesting, unusual and stylish.
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I love the naked shootings, as they reveal the very soul of you; you show your heart and your alter ego, your complexes and your confidence, your fears and hopes, the artistic view and the very truth, the need to take care of yourself and to accept you - all this at once! Also I love them because this is seems to be an eternal topic of discussions, moral and physical wars and so on 😄
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I love shooting in clothes, as they help in creating the image, pointing the view on details, facial expressions, putting efforts on playing the corresponding image (~role), and all that fashion, cosplay stuff, fetish, lingerie, retro vibes and so on. Also I love them because dressed model seems to be of a neutral depiction, but at the same time it can create a quite pervert and seductive image - and here's the new war (both mental and physical, kinda similar to the mentioned in the previous paragraph) coming!
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I love sets of pictures, as you can really tell a story step-by-step, pointing a special attention on separate fragments and \ or pictures, share the mood and the plot, show your model's potential more than just with one or two pictures and inspire others! At the same time, I love sets because they are more complicated in creating and following the similar features - I mean, the light and toning, picking up the harmonic post-edit, setting the presets, equal liquifying, adding \ removing details and so on.
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I love the shooting resulting in one or several pictures, as you can try to show something you really want to by taking:
- just one picture, which can be a complicated thing dur to the need to pick up the right one shot to be the final one; it's an especially hard thing when you shoot on film or on a wetplate, or if you are limited in time, experience, circumstances, etc.
- several separate pictures with possible different edition and \ or showing the different ideas.
In the first case, you can even organize a short shooting process in order to get the needed shot, and save your time and your camera run; such shooting can be also a spontaneous or test one. In the second case, you can try to reveal several topics, styles or genres during one shooting process, you can improvise by changing various aspects, from posing and "settings" (angles of shootings, camera settings, light, etc.) to outfit and location, or even "additional" models. Such shooting can sometimes be a nice option when shooting a new model and trying to find out which style is the most suitable for you both, or when creating a multithemed portfolio, or when you do not what exatcly you want to get in the end but you want to (or have to) shoot...or when you just want to test the lense, location, artificial light settings, whatever.
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P.S.
I might have added something about the film and digital cameras, or about the expensive and cheap lenses \ films \ cameras, or continue the topic about the appearance features which I touched in the first paragraphs; I might have left a few words about the female and male nude modelling and its perception by viewers. But there is always a kind of inner wish to stop long before the words meet the end. Plus, I have a little hope on someone like you, my dear reader, will add something special right below. :)
Forgive me my excessive verbal ornate flows and possible typos. I love you. Thank you for being here ❤️
