Jeremy I wrote:
You know you all have taken then or have had them taken, usually accidentally.

Do you delete them? Keep them archived with the rest?

Inquiring minds and all...

Depends upon the shoot.  I've done plenty of shoots where the model had to get nude in order to achieve the right effect but we agreed the shots weren't to be of nudes.  So there's be an exposed nipple or more.  And those shots got deleted.  Another model shoots nudes specifically asked for an implied nude  I had (that she could use as an avatar) so when she unintentionally exposed a nipple that I didn't notice, I used contrast to hide it in shadow and create a usable implied nude for her.  I had one model who had implants and no feeling in her nipples...they kept slipping out of her top and she didn't notice. Those got deleted.

Bottom line:  if the model didn't want nipples showing then I delete the shot or adapt it so there's no nipple showing.  If I shoot nudes with that model and it's a "costume malfunction" than we just move on.

Ed

Carlos Occidental wrote:
This seems an exceedingly strange question.  Any photographer who says he didn't see it in the viewfinder is a bold faced liar.  Period.

I have to disagree. If I see a slip, it is usually in setting up the shot before I look in the viewfinder. I stop and suggest a wardrobe adjustment. Once the camera is at my eye, I am not looking so much at details, but the overall look and crop. In a review I am far more focussed on the focus and the lighting so even reviewing on the camera lcd screen, I often do not see mistakes until they are on the big screen.   

As to the op's question, I delete if it is a non-nudity or implied shoot.

So if you are going to call me a bold faced liar, I guess I have no choice other than to challege you to a duel.  lol

Abby Hawkins wrote:
I remember doing a shoot in a corset once.  The corset was a little loose up top, so in certain poses, certain bits would show.  I saw the shots afterward and was devastated that the photographer used one of the nip slip ones for her port.  She removed it when I brought it to her attention, but it broke my heart a bit because I didn't sign up for anything resembling topless (furthermore, I'm a preschool teacher/nanny, so "topless" images like that can really have a negative impact on my career).

I totally understand you on that. I always have to tell my photographers what my job is when I get to the shoot, normally 99% of them are cool with it and always make sure to check with me if a image they took might be too much to show on their ports.
Normally this is done by written agreement and we talk about it before hand. never had issues yet.

Carlos Occidental wrote:

This seems an exceedingly strange question.  Any photographer who says he didn't see it in the viewfinder is a bold faced liar.  Period.

Then count me among the bold faced liars, then. I've discovered slips in post sorting that I didn't see through the viewfinder and/or camera display.

William Kious wrote:

Then count me among the bold faced liars, then. I've discovered slips in post sorting that I didn't see through the viewfinder and/or camera display.

I guess I join the bold-faced liar club too.

I shoot mostly artistic nudes.  I've done long full-day shoots with a model and afterwards I realized I never noticed if she had pubic hair or not.  Why?  It wasn't relevant to that particular shoot, the poses we did never called for that to be an issue.

Well, if I"m focusing on a range of other issues, I may not notice if a nipple for a small-breasted model is peeking through a slit on the side of a top.  Or the model is spinning and a nipple pops out of the top.  It happens.  I don't happen to spend most of my shoots in a studio and I don't happen to spend most of my time focusing on my model's nipples.

Ed

Abby Hawkins wrote:
I remember doing a shoot in a corset once.  The corset was a little loose up top, so in certain poses, certain bits would show.  I saw the shots afterward and was devastated that the photographer used one of the nip slip ones for her port.  She removed it when I brought it to her attention, but it broke my heart a bit because I didn't sign up for anything resembling topless (furthermore, I'm a preschool teacher/nanny, so "topless" images like that can really have a negative impact on my career).

If a model doesn't shoot topless she could choose to cover her nipples with flesh colored "stickies" available at almost every lingerie store in the country.

Carlos Occidental wrote:
This seems an exceedingly strange question.  Any photographer who says he didn't see it in the viewfinder is a bold faced liar.  Period.

With all due respect, I completely disagree with you.  The image of a person in a standard viewfinder, is only 1 inch tall.  So full length or 3/4 view of a person with say lace lingerie on and shadows from lighting we are talking about and object that is less than 1/16 of an inch in size.  And it could be in motion, say dancing or twirling.

As we get older, often we don't see something until it comes up on the computer screen at 100 % enlargement.

So please temper your judgmental comments with some real world information.

To the OP, if the shoot isn't supposed to have any exposure and that is why they are called "slips", then if they happen, I go over them with the model and and we decide then whether we fix them or delete them.  Treat them fairly, with respect and you will have no problems.

Certainly, if her top swings open and the whole breast is exposed, we will see that and fix it, before we go on.

EDIT:  Now that I have read the whole thread and seen your correction to your miss-statement, I understand where you were coming from and accept your mistake.  Sure shooting large format where you lupe the whole ground glass makes it easy to spot them, but that is a very large exception to the rule today.

Wysiwyg Photography wrote:

Jeremy I wrote:
You know you all have taken then or have had them taken, usually accidentally.

Do you delete them? Keep them archived with the rest?

Inquiring minds and all...

+1 (Old post, but still relevant today).

I would likely delete the image.. BUT.. I don't do any "Implied" nude work with anyone other then nude models.. so it would never be an issue.

On the rare occasion that we would do an "implied shot" where the model doesn't do nudes, but wants a shot that shows her body off but not "bits"... it is a specific pose and the shutter doesn't release till the model is in place anyway.

I've had nip slips, and I don't do implieds.

There are plenty of cases where you can be wearing clothing and there can be a slip, especially in fashion-oriented work.

(never had anyone try to use one, though).

Jim Macias wrote:
I think that nipples should be removed at birth. They are clearly evil and dirty. I propose that they are replaced with a non-erotic bio port for nurturing off-spring.

+1

Fourteen billion of the damn things infect the earth.  Seven billion connection devices between mother and child, the other seven billion as useless as teats on a bull.  When the hell did they become naughty objects to be concealed and never revealed - the source of embarrassment? 

Grow up America for God's sake.

Jeremy I wrote:
You know you all have taken then or have had them taken, usually accidentally.

Do you delete them? Keep them archived with the rest?

Inquiring minds and all...

I don't delete anything other than obviously bad shots.  I don't keep it from the models, they never ask me to remove them either.

Carlos Occidental wrote:
This seems an exceedingly strange question.  Any photographer who says he didn't see it in the viewfinder is a bold faced liar.  Period.

Sometimes I chimp.  Sometimes I don't or it's a mix.  As a film photographer I'd think you wouldn't chimp yourself and realize how ridicules that statement was.

For the record I delete them.  Sometimes in camera if I'm chimping sometimes later.

I do have one.  I never used it nor have a actually seen it in perhaps ---- 5 years but I know it's there (so does the model) as it's archived on DVD.  The shot was just too beautiful, too perfect to through away.  What a waist.  It was in fact one of the best photos I've ever shot of a person and ---- it just sets on that disk.  Oh well, shit happens.

True Colours Photograph wrote:
Seven billion connection devices between mother and child, the other seven billion as useless as teats on a bull.

Er, not all female nipples are used to feed infants. Mine sure as hell aren't for that.

Alabaster Crowley wrote:

Er, not all female nipples are used to feed infants. Mine sure as hell aren't for that.

Damn!  210 million years of evolution down the toilet.

Jeremy I wrote:
You know you all have taken then or have had them taken, usually accidentally.

Do you delete them? Keep them archived with the rest?

Inquiring minds and all...

If I'm shooting anything at all these days, I use a nude model who has only one rate.

Saves all the bother and drama.

Luminos wrote:

If I'm shooting anything at all these days, I use a nude model who has only one rate.

Saves all the bother and drama.

^^^ this

K I C K H A M wrote:

I've had nip slips, and I don't do implieds.

There are plenty of cases where you can be wearing clothing and there can be a slip, especially in fashion-oriented work.

(never had anyone try to use one, though).

I understand that.. I guess I should have said "On the rare occasion that I work with a 'non-nude' model... I would delete the image."

All other situations the models wouldn't care, because she is a nude model.
Bad images get deleted regardless if nipple is showing or not

Luminos wrote:
If I'm shooting anything at all these days, I use a nude model who has only one rate.

Saves all the bother and drama.

Typically, I don't use nip slips even WITH a nude model.  If it looks like an accident, it probably doesn't look good.  That is, in a "nipple sneaking out of the clothing" sense.

A M Johnson wrote:
I play fair. If the model is not doing a shoot where bits are showing then I delete the slips with the other mistakes.

+1

I do the same. I see no difference in this and eye blinks, flash not poping, etc. - it wasn't what we were going for so the shot gets culled.

Mearle wrote:
If the nips aren't showing I throw the model out!

Every shot?

The bottom image here was cropped to make my avatar.  No nipples, but I'm still pretty pleased.  (18+, and yes, I know you're kidding.)
https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/p … 6#25848256

215 Studios wrote:
I actually have one in my portfolio, here. Neither the model, nor I noticed it for almost a year after it was shot, and this was one of the first images I gave her from this shoot. When she pointed it out to me, she laughed and told me, "I can't believe my parents have a picture with one of my nipples in it hanging on their wall!"

I apologized, and told her I'd be happy to fix it in PS, and reprint it for her, but she wasn't concerned about it, at all. She said it was her "first nudie picture."

This is it:

that's a great shot and you really have to be desperate to see a nipple to even notice