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I don't know if I'm ever going to get into photography as a hobby, or even take another course in it, but I thought of a cool project I'd love to do someday:
Advertise for couples or romantically-involved moresomes who are willing to be photographed nude together.
Assuming you're in a big city or college town and you actually get takers, make each model fill out a questionaire something like this:
1: What is your favorite color, or a color of personal significance? Please also pick an alternate in case (one of) your partner(s) chooses the same one.
2: What are your favorite parts of your partner's body? Try to come up with at least 3.
Then have them take their clothes off and use stickers, cloth, colored tape and/or self-adhesive dressings in their chosen color to cover up the chosen body parts of their partner. Only after everyone's covered/colored "their" parts of their partners do you pose them and photograph them.
I think it could lead to some very interesting photographs, not least because a lot of people are going to pick eyes, and therefore cause their partners to be blindfolded with colorful swatches. Also, at least one person's going to be a smartass and say "Everything!" and get their partner mummified. Mwa-ha-ha-ha.
It gets even better with multi-partner groups, because then the marking becomes a map of different partner's particular bits of interest. When multiple partners choose the same body part, perhaps 50/50 striping of the two different colors would work. It could be really fun to see what partners agree upon, and what they don't. Also it might be nice for someone with many loves to be covered with overlapping layers of colors indicating hir loves' desire. Kinda encounter-group ritual-y.
Oh well, I don't think any photographers read my journal (though at least one model does!) but I hope I or somebody else makes this happen someday.
Advertise for couples or romantically-involved moresomes who are willing to be photographed nude together.
Assuming you're in a big city or college town and you actually get takers, make each model fill out a questionaire something like this:
1: What is your favorite color, or a color of personal significance? Please also pick an alternate in case (one of) your partner(s) chooses the same one.
2: What are your favorite parts of your partner's body? Try to come up with at least 3.
Then have them take their clothes off and use stickers, cloth, colored tape and/or self-adhesive dressings in their chosen color to cover up the chosen body parts of their partner. Only after everyone's covered/colored "their" parts of their partners do you pose them and photograph them.
I think it could lead to some very interesting photographs, not least because a lot of people are going to pick eyes, and therefore cause their partners to be blindfolded with colorful swatches. Also, at least one person's going to be a smartass and say "Everything!" and get their partner mummified. Mwa-ha-ha-ha.
It gets even better with multi-partner groups, because then the marking becomes a map of different partner's particular bits of interest. When multiple partners choose the same body part, perhaps 50/50 striping of the two different colors would work. It could be really fun to see what partners agree upon, and what they don't. Also it might be nice for someone with many loves to be covered with overlapping layers of colors indicating hir loves' desire. Kinda encounter-group ritual-y.
Oh well, I don't think any photographers read my journal (though at least one model does!) but I hope I or somebody else makes this happen someday.