Art Deco Nude - Artistic study by Walery Laryew
I chose the picture of Art Deco Nude from Walery Laryew taken in the 1920's. It is a very elegant vintage nude picture that is artistic and pleasant to the viewer. The model's pose is very simple and not in a risqué pornographic way. However, the Laryew composed the picture with the model directly in the middle and the stand she is leaning against is dead center as well. This ignores the rule of thirds aspect in photography and I'm not too sure if this was the intention. Nevertheless, this picture looks magnificent and could very well stand the test of time when collecting vintage pictures. Who knows, if this was in color it could pass for a modern picture.
After searching through various photographs that are classic, I chose this one because it was appealing to me. To make it more of my own, I edited the picture, changed the color from achromatic to monochromatic and added border around it. I used Lightroom 3 as the editing software as it is a straight-forward editing tool compared to photoshop.
The other reason I chose a vintage photograph is that it was a challenge to look for someone to model artistic nude or boudoir. Maybe in the future when I would know more people that are open to photography models will be lining up to do it for a favor, but that is in the future! Still working my way up the field of photography. I know I could have paid a model to do it, but of course the financial situation will not allow it, for maybe I could have done as TFP (Time For Print) but do not know too many people in the industry yet nor models available. As far as my comfort level with taking nude photography I have no problem with. I do love art and photography so my pictures will be artistic. There is probably very little chance of me getting into the pornographic world.
As of now, I will just stick to editing vintage photos and it is easier and that I do not need permission to use it.
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