Re: Pinhole nude question (was another question)

Hi Catherine,

I've done a fair amount of nude work with pinholes,
zone plates, and lenses. In fact, I began using zone
plates to deal with the biggest problem I was having
in this area--the long exposures were really hard on
the model (it didn't help much). This may be a problem
especially if your interested in a dreamy look that
may require low light situations. For what it's worth,
the zone plate exposures weren't that much faster than
the pinhole exposures. They were still so long that
only the most intrepid models are capable of holding
them--blurred effects that result can be interesting,
of course.

One method that did help was to find an interestig
pose that had possibilities from a number of angles
and then to use multiple cameras to get two or three
pinhole shots out of a single long pose, but the wide
angle of most pinhole and zone plate cameras means you
often have to set up very carefully to avoid getting
one of the other cameras in the picture!

You might find (dare I suggest it) that traditional
photographer tricks like gauze or vaseline on a filter
using a lens may achieve the effect you are looking
for with far less hassle than pinhole or zone plate. I
am assuming here that the result is more important to
you than the process (which may not be true). Anyway,
the biggest frustration has been model fatigue. That
can be compounded by the fact that you may be paying
for a model's time and it's expensive to pay $20 an
hour or so and only shoot two negatives! Very fast
films may help too, if you don't mind the grain.

There are at least three pinhole nudes on my websites.
If you are interested, go to:

http://www.sonic.net/~talcroft/camerawork/

That will take you to my lens site, but it has links
to my pinhole site and to my nude photography site at
the bottom.

Hopes this helps.

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Received on Sun Oct 27 16:05:13 2002