Forums > Off-Topic Discussion > when models pose with guns....(it is so stupid)

Photographer

Compass Rose Studios

Posts: 15979

Portland, Oregon, US

wtf motherfucking frankenpost.

Jan 13 13 03:40 pm Link

Photographer

SPRINGHEEL

Posts: 38224

Detroit, Michigan, US

StevieSteve wrote:
Voilent

lol

Jan 13 13 03:51 pm Link

Photographer

Digital Photo PLUS

Posts: 5503

Lorton, Virginia, US

Gun enthusiasts take those pictures so they can beat off to both at the same time.

Jan 13 13 07:02 pm Link

Model

Julia Steel

Posts: 2474

Sylvania, Ohio, US

i posed with a gun because the photographer asked me to. should i have just told him no because that would be cheesy? lol

Jan 13 13 07:33 pm Link

Photographer

r T p

Posts: 3511

Los Angeles, California, US

Digital Photo PLUS wrote:
Gun enthusiasts take those pictures so they can beat off to both at the same time.

https://www.zazzle.com/rlv/ftw_for_the_win_hat-p148261777635813950enxqz_400.jpg

Jan 13 13 07:34 pm Link

Photographer

Docta Shock Fotografix

Posts: 1806

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Art of CIP wrote:
So I've got this great concept...

A chick with a gun standing on railroad tracks in a caution tape bikini!

The bottom line is; a true artist can still make that image a great one

Jan 13 13 07:35 pm Link

Model

Luna Diosa

Posts: 13242

Elizabeth, New Jersey, US

Docta Shock Photografix wrote:

The bottom line is; a true artist can still make that image a great one

this ^

Jan 13 13 07:37 pm Link

Artist/Painter

Christopher Willingham

Posts: 21859

Long Beach, California, US

Art of CIP wrote:
So I've got this great concept...

A chick with a gun standing on railroad tracks in a caution tape bikini!

Docta Shock Photografix wrote:
The bottom line is; a true artist can still make that image a great one

Agreed, taking something as cheesey as that concept and presenting it in the context of Art reveals the utter absurdity of said context in an intellectual framework normally reserved for creativity.  Art that makes people point, stare, and laugh is just as valid as Art that makes people think and feel good about existence.  Sometimes Art needs to poke fun at the lame stuff out there.  It's all good!

Jan 13 13 10:14 pm Link

Photographer

bwhstudios

Posts: 74

Hingham, Massachusetts, US

I beg to disagree as evidenced by my avatar.  The gun was not loaded for several reasons, one of which was she was pointing it at me.  Another photo shows the same model with a long rifle and her hand is covering the trigger lock.

Jan 14 13 07:47 am Link

Photographer

Image Works Photography

Posts: 2890

Orlando, Florida, US

I once photograph a model which she had an idea theme of cyborgs and guns. It sounded interesting but I really did it because she was bringing in a friend to model also and I worked before with her and she had an out of this world look. I went ahead and shot her with her guns but after posting one in my port I decided to take it down. It didn't mix too well in the port but to each their own.

Jan 14 13 07:59 am Link

Photographer

Photos 4 The Memories

Posts: 1308

Kewaskum, Wisconsin, US

popcorn

Jan 14 13 08:03 am Link

Photographer

KonstantKarma

Posts: 2513

Campobello, South Carolina, US

Yay necropost!


Gun photos are not nearly as bad as lousy railroad tracks, caution tape, or handbra pics.

Some are done very well and I love them. Some look cheesy as hell. It all depends on who's working on both sides of the camera.

Jan 14 13 08:04 am Link

Photographer

Worlds Of Water

Posts: 37732

Rancho Cucamonga, California, US

when models pose with guns....(it is so stupid)

FUR SURE... it's only cool when they have hot blonde escorts... borat

https://www.modelspremier.com/memberpictures/1355568880-3306_pic80.jpg

Jan 14 13 08:10 am Link

Photographer

KonstantKarma

Posts: 2513

Campobello, South Carolina, US

https://konstantkarmaservices.com/photos/goodsm.jpg

Jan 14 13 08:13 am Link

Model

Jules NYC

Posts: 21617

New York, New York, US

Not everyone can pull it off,
but as a general rule, cheesy/lame.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CBm0ng27oX4/TbdQvUDNBCI/AAAAAAAAAOs/_EQBDoqYhDc/s1600/angelina_jolie_holding_guns_on_the_set_of_tomb_raider.jpg

https://www.crazytownblog.com/.a/6a012876c6c7fb970c0163022a0e87970d-320wi

https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02045/bond2_95__2045035b.jpg

Weapons in general
Nice

https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02045/bond17_81__2045055b.jpg

https://www.trbimg.com/img-50181363/turbine/env-bondgrils-andress/600

See the difference?
*Sorry unknown person from internet, I don't mean any harm but hey*

VV

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3035/2980518109_0776997581_z.jpg?zz=1

Jan 14 13 08:13 am Link

Clothing Designer

Chain Reaction

Posts: 548

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is mastrubatory.

You are absolutely right! Use a flame thrower or heavy artillery! Now yer talkin'!

Jan 14 13 08:18 am Link

Photographer

Wildcat Photography

Posts: 1486

Valparaiso, Indiana, US

Here's what I say to people that do not like models with guns...get out of the way...LOL!:

https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120604/08/4fccd4d01a0c3.jpg

Jan 14 13 09:58 am Link

Model

S3R4PH1M

Posts: 530

Modesto, California, US

Jan 14 13 10:27 am Link

Photographer

Wildcat Photography

Posts: 1486

Valparaiso, Indiana, US

S3R4PH1M  wrote:

Jan 14 13 10:36 am Link

Photographer

Worlds Of Water

Posts: 37732

Rancho Cucamonga, California, US

Chain Reaction wrote:

You are absolutely right! Use a flame thrower or heavy artillery! Now yer talkin'!

Fur sure... heavy artillery... YAAAAAAY!... borat

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/GaryAbigt/ShoMarie1.jpg

Jan 14 13 05:21 pm Link

Model

Sophia Be

Posts: 6355

Portland, Oregon, US

Holy crap this is an old thread!


Oh, and I love my gun pics, real and pretend.

Jan 14 13 05:29 pm Link

Model

Damianne

Posts: 15978

Austin, Texas, US

Our "sexy secretary drops into alien world with her shotgun" comic was absurd and did as well as hoped.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/155674_283210058457781_1824080783_n.jpg

Jan 14 13 05:30 pm Link

Photographer

L o n d o n F o g

Posts: 7497

London, England, United Kingdom

Absolutely agree with the OP, most of the time it looks dumb and tacky to say the least!

Jan 14 13 05:30 pm Link

Photographer

L o n d o n F o g

Posts: 7497

London, England, United Kingdom

Damianne wrote:
Our "sexy secretary drops into alien world with her shotgun" comic was absurd and did as well as hoped.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/155674_283210058457781_1824080783_n.jpg

But, on the other hand, that is very cool!

Jan 14 13 05:31 pm Link

Photographer

Lawrence Guy

Posts: 17716

San Diego Country Estates, California, US

Damianne wrote:
Our "sexy secretary drops into alien world with her shotgun" comic was absurd and did as well as hoped.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/155674_283210058457781_1824080783_n.jpg

That's just fucking awesome. Is there more?

EDIT: I did a search. I'm almost tempted to buy it.

Jan 14 13 05:36 pm Link

Photographer

Mark Brummitt

Posts: 40527

Clarkston, Michigan, US

I'm waiting on a decision in "site related" as to whether or not I can say fuck you and not get brigged.

Jan 14 13 05:41 pm Link

Photographer

Andialu

Posts: 14029

San Pedro, California, US

OMarkcompa wrote:
I'm waiting on a decision in "site related" as to whether or not I can say fuck you and not get brigged.

I'd be more worried about what the great Admin in the sky thinks than one on MM. His brig doesn't have cookies and the extended stay is way more than 9999 days.......

Jan 14 13 05:47 pm Link

Model

Damianne

Posts: 15978

Austin, Texas, US

That comic has a lot of posing finger on the trigger, and since the little toy gun is so short (yes, that's a blue and orange water shotgun thing IRL), lots of shooting it in positions that if I shot a real shotgun like that, it would smack me in the face or fly out of my hands. Not able to get the butt on my shoulder in a way that would look good, so lots of "play pretend that would work out for the sake of fiction" action.
It's fun though, and it's pretty.

Kind of like that Angelina Jolie movie with all the bullet bending.

Jan 14 13 05:52 pm Link

Photographer

Skydancer Photos

Posts: 22196

Santa Cruz, California, US

When photographers shoot models holding guns... (it is so...!!!)







wink






ETA: Holy Dinosaur Thread Batman!

Jan 14 13 05:56 pm Link

Photographer

Mark Brummitt

Posts: 40527

Clarkston, Michigan, US

OMarkcompa wrote:
I'm waiting on a decision in "site related" as to whether or not I can say fuck you and not get brigged.

Andialu wrote:
I'd be more worried about what the great Admin in the sky thinks than one on MM. His brig doesn't have cookies and the extended stay is way more than 9999 days.......

If He didn't want me to have emotions He would have made me...you.

Jan 14 13 07:28 pm Link

Clothing Designer

Chain Reaction

Posts: 548

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

Chain Reaction wrote:
You are absolutely right! Use a flame thrower or heavy artillery! Now yer talkin'!

Select Models wrote:
Fur sure... heavy artillery... YAAAAAAY!... borat

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/GaryAbigt/ShoMarie1.jpg

Oh yeah... That's the stuff. Ahhh...

Jan 15 13 12:41 pm Link

Photographer

K E E L I N G

Posts: 39894

Peoria, Illinois, US

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Most of the time it looks stupid.

Please don't project your own level of ability or inability onto my work

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Especially when it is a prop or you are not handling it correctly.

If people are looking at how the model is holding the gun then you have either chosen the wrong model or didn't do her justice with your photography.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Like the photo of a woman driving smiling with her head out the window.

It's actually nothing like that.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Do not pose with a gun. Nobody cares. It is like a simulated suicide or death scene. It please you but nobody is going to pay you for it.

Actually, yes they have... multiple times.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is like a photographer taking a shot of the Flatiron Building.

You're just rambling now.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Or a guitar player plays 'Stairway to Heaven' in a guitar store.

I would enjoy walking into that store, great song.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is irritating to watch. I know it makes you feel all empowered, edgy and as if you are part of some killer concept but it is stupid.

huh?  I did it because despite your inability to accomplish the same thing I was paid.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
You are not empowered. It looks as if you will 1) drop it when it discharges 2) not hit anything or 3) easily have it grabbed away from you.

Please refer to my responses to your first and second statements.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is mastrubatory.

Cool, I needed new ways to do that.    tongue

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Nobody wants to see it. Would you want to see what a fat, balding, 63 year old man does with his prono collection...?

No, but irrelevant.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
That is what it looks like when you pose with a gun.

Not quite

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Maybe a gun manufacturer would pay for you to do it, but only if you maintain a correct stance, and never NEVER never with your finger inside the trigger housing.

It would take two seconds to look up how to handle a firearm with photos, for free, or take a lesson somewhere.

/rant

out of my system

Feel better?

Jan 15 13 12:57 pm Link

Photographer

Images by SeanK Photo

Posts: 465

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Pictures of a llama holding a gun in my port????

NO WAY !!!!

The HORROR!

If we just got rid of guns, people would no longer die!

Toooooo funny!!!!!

Jan 15 13 04:48 pm Link

Photographer

Arizona Shoots

Posts: 28706

Phoenix, Arizona, US

K E E L I N G wrote:
Feel better?

After 3yrs, one would hope so..

Jan 15 13 05:03 pm Link

Model

Luna Diosa

Posts: 13242

Elizabeth, New Jersey, US

S3R4PH1M  wrote:

Jan 16 13 08:41 am Link

Photographer

Accidental Plateau

Posts: 7715

Brooklyn, New York, US

Theworst is just posing holding the gun with a smug self satisfied look on the face...while the model's finger is inside the trigger housing.

I wish local DA's would enforce existing laws.

If it is a real gun, arrest the model for posessing it if they are not military, LEO, or otherwise legally allowed to posses it.

If the weapon is on the owners permit, revoke the owners permit for not securing the weapon and allowing someone to handle it in an improper way.

That is the sort of gun laws and enforcement society needs.

Unless you were lawfully issued or own the weapon, do not ever pose with it. And do not ever pose with it pointed at anyone or otherwise handling it in a improper manner. Unless intended for training material or marketing.

If the weapon is displayed for some sort of storyline, then it should never be a real weapon. Always a prop gun.

Any owner of a weapon who allows it to be used as a prop needs to have their rights taken away for failing to secure the weapon.

Thats why we have problems with guns. it is the people not the guns.

Jan 16 13 10:39 am Link

Photographer

Accidental Plateau

Posts: 7715

Brooklyn, New York, US

K E E L I N G wrote:

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Most of the time it looks stupid.

Please don't project your own level of ability or inability onto my work

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Especially when it is a prop or you are not handling it correctly.

If people are looking at how the llama is holding the gun then you have either chosen the wrong llama or didn't do her justice with your photography.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Like the photo of a woman driving smiling with her head out the window.

It's actually nothing like that.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Do not pose with a gun. Nobody cares. It is like a simulated suicide or death scene. It please you but nobody is going to pay you for it.

Actually, yes they have... multiple times.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is like a photographer taking a shot of the Flatiron Building.

You're just rambling now.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Or a guitar player plays 'Stairway to Heaven' in a guitar store.

I would enjoy walking into that store, great song.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is irritating to watch. I know it makes you feel all empowered, edgy and as if you are part of some killer concept but it is stupid.

huh?  I did it because despite your inability to accomplish the same thing I was paid.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
You are not empowered. It looks as if you will 1) drop it when it discharges 2) not hit anything or 3) easily have it grabbed away from you.

Please refer to my responses to your first and second statements.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
It is mastrubatory.

Cool, I needed new ways to do that.    tongue

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Nobody wants to see it. Would you want to see what a fat, balding, 63 year old man does with his prono collection...?

No, but irrelevant.

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
That is what it looks like when you pose with a gun.

Not quite

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Maybe a gun manufacturer would pay for you to do it, but only if you maintain a correct stance, and never NEVER never with your finger inside the trigger housing.

It would take two seconds to look up how to handle a firearm with photos, for free, or take a lesson somewhere.

/rant

out of my system

Feel better?

Do you feel better having spent all the time to insert your own text and make it bold displaying you know HTML code like millions of others?

Do you feel included now with all the kewl hip people ?

Jan 16 13 10:41 am Link

Photographer

Compass Rose Studios

Posts: 15979

Portland, Oregon, US

Accidental  Plateau wrote:
Theworst is just posing holding the gun with a smug self satisfied look on the face...while the model's finger is inside the trigger housing.

I wish local DA's would enforce existing laws.

I completely fucking agree.

The number of models with smug, self-satisfied looks has grown to epidemic proportions.  This is a threat that CANNOT be tolerated in a free society.

Jan 16 13 11:01 am Link

Photographer

Thomas Sellberg

Posts: 140

Knoxville, Tennessee, US

AJ Garcia wrote:

I'm going to start off with I personally dont like guns in photos, there is very few I actually like.

But I totally disagree with most of your post.

First off, you almost imply a women holding a firearm automatically makes them look like they cant hold one, or that women and firearms dont mix. Ive seen some women be able to handle a gun better then most men.

Secondly, do you know for a fact no one wants to see it? Have you spoken to everyone in the world? This entire statement is a gross over generalization that can be used for practically ANY idea. like this:
"no one wants to fetish. Want to know what the nasty dude is doing after he takes those pictures of you?"

or this.
"No one wants to see ass shots. want to know what..etc, etc."

Guess what, there's probably a market for it, simple.

3rd. This pisses me off the most actually. Who cares if they handle the weapon properly or not. Who cares if they have their finger on the trigger. Maybe thats what is intended for the shot.

The fact that your arguing that photographs need to promote proper firearm usage is ridiculous. Its just as bad as people complaining about characters in movies smoking because it "promotes a habit that can kill you". Who cares, if thats what the vision of the director, writer, or whoever was of that character, then so be it, let the F***er smoke.

If its the vision of the photographer to put a half naked girl holding a .50 Cal Desert Eagle thats twice the size of her hand, then so be it. Who am I to say he/she cant shoot what they want.

How would you like it if someone came to you and told to stop shooting in sepia tone because its looks stupid and its not realistic because the world isnt actually in sepia tone (unless you have some messed up eye condition). That you might as well not take the pictures because its "masturbatory". 

Not to mention the fact that you pretty much gave an unsolicited critique with this comment as when you said it I knew immediately the image you were talking about.

I have to say I care if she is holding correctly. It makes the difference in if the shot is pulled off or not. A shot that requires a firearm(gangster, warrior, whatever) the llama male or female should be holding it correctly so it looks natural. I see a lot of shots that if the llama had not been holding the arm incorrectly it would have been a better picture. People are allowed their opinion, mine as a gun owner and enthusiast is I care if they are handled properly.

Feb 02 13 12:59 pm Link

Photographer

Sports Action Shooters

Posts: 325

Yorba Linda, California, US

tldr;

Girls + guns?

https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/100126/23/4b5ff1922eb3e.jpg

Feb 02 14 11:10 pm Link