Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Not nude but still rather sensitive pin ups for Christmas. The Fantasy Model Nicole Damon being deeply twisted in a end of the year/end of life scenario. Yes I posted them in the portrait area because they were commissioned as Christmas Portraits, especially, Nicole made them into her Christmas cards for the year. The last one in the set of three was the truly twisted idea. I think it all borders on a possible NSFW type image, still it was intended as a form of Pin Up, Pin Up with the grime reaper in mind!

Yes, it is a real coffin. It was the last resting place of a 'client' she told me as the 'red coffin' was special ordered for the internment. Spooky!

Now I should hear it! Just so far beyond the Nun images!

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TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

A “sensitive pin up for Christmas”?

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

"I'm a sensitive guy", so I wish her tits were showing in the photo.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Please, make it stop. Poor composition, lousy exposures, and “questionable” props are neither artistic or sexy. Will you at least cease and desist when you get to 365?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Oh my God, not 233 more 🙀.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

No Andy, I will not because you have the option to not look or add absurd and pointless observations. This was used in a promotional fashion, silly you the art director* was impressed by the lighting and the control of the image. Seems that your opinion fly's in the face of an opinion from a professional. It must be so difficult to be so wrong, but then I have come to expect these sorts of comments from the peanut gallery!
* Heavy Metal Magazine.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Yes TriX, and more. Do yourself a large Christmas present, don't look nor comment if you find my work so troublesome!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Too bad I know, but Fantasy Artist Models don't show tits or bush. They do tease, but not cheesy tease, like hand bras!

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Tim, if you had stated at the outset that this photo was used in Heavy Metal Magazine as a promotional fashion shot viewers would have had a completely different perspective on the work. There would be a stated/implied purpose for the setup, and critiques would be aimed at how well you succeeded in meeting the expectations.

And before you justify your work as "art" and that it should stand on its own without requiring context, consider the following extremes:

1) Forensic photographers have to develop their skills regarding angles, perspectives, lighting, "poses", etc. Now while I would not expect gruesome images of mutilated naked dead bodies to be posted on UHH, if they were posted I would view them totally differently if posted with an explanation of circumstances as opposed to simply posted as "stand-alone art."

2) The same applies to medical photography: getting good shots of medical conditions or surgery techniques is a skill developed over time, and I am sure medical photographers can benefit from technical critiques of their work. But again, while fitting the UHH category description of NSFW, I really don't expect to see such photos posted here.

3) Porn: ... requires NO explanation, really. You have danced on the edge of this many times.

Use a bit of good judgement in what you post. Consider the purpose of this Section, your audience, and your reason for posting. And don't be closed-minded and arrogant in dealing with the comments you receive. There are plenty of other photo sites where you will get atta-boys for what is often rejected here.

medphotog Loc: Witness protection land

Wow, a shout out to the medical photographers! At least on this forum people won't think you work in x-ray.

bbrowner Loc: Chapel Hill, NC

Here's what I'm wondering...

You have stated in the past that you do... or have taught photography. If that is the case... why are your shots almost always out of focus? Maybe you teach what not to do.

gtemple1 Loc: E. Olympia, WA

Excellent lighting! Like the blackout and the red background's transition to black to the top. I also think any nudity would have been a distraction. Well done.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Well, it was done as a Christmas card originally, but it went beyond that as often is the case with the use of photography. Medical photography you say. Back in my earlier days I worked at MD Anderson, attached to the Department of Medical Communication, in fact I had the attention of the department of Pathology. Path was 'god' at Anderson. Path through my department head offered to send me to the Biological Photography Program, all expenses paid in Dallas from Houston Texas. No small offering. Of course I declined as I had already been excepted to the new program for the MFA at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Clark of MD Anderson stopped by and thanked me for my work and hoped the best for me as an arts and instructor in Fine Arts.

I can not tell more deeply that I learned the mechanics and the technology of photography at MD Anderson. The rigors of such an institution is at the greatest levels. Yet I wanted the substance of images to reflect more than mere content, images must have purpose and direction, to make statements defining the Spirit of the Times as it were. Earlier influences from the Friends of Photography, three years in Southern Germany that created cultural shock, the idiocy of separation of the arts from photography doing my BS training at Sam Houston State University. It all directed my focus on the arts and not technology in photography.

When we look to the large American Library system, that of The Library of Congress we find the wisdom of thoughtful persons placing photography sandwiched between the arts on one side and the sciences on the other. Instead of trying to be cute, wisdom forged the single most important tool of mankind right where it belongs, between the arts and the sciences. One finds the work of Ansel Adams Basic Photo Series at the far end near the sciences, while his 'pictorial' landscape books rest over close to the arts. No other 'thing' but photography demands such a shuffling of ideas.

I tend to favor the arts side of the image making, while being perfectly delighted in making in-situ images of a corpse in the morgue. This is the great legacy that is the realm of photography. Limit your options is your to do, me I'm just delighted with the big ideas. It's what I work towards. You should all do the same.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I agree that this lighting worked. I especially liked the image of the 'still life' lighted with below styled 'Frankenstein' lighting. Thanks for seeing the lighting for what it is.