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Women on their knees.
Tired of shooting/seeing photos of models on their knees (usually on a seashore)? It feels like a WAY overdone, degrading, photographic cliché. I never see photos of women (or men) on their knees ... on a sidewalk, in jeans, in an elegant dress, (add the arched back and thumb sucking for a REALLY creative plus). JEESH! Am I the only one who feels this way? Jun 17 10 04:31 pm Link Then don't look. Simple solution. Jun 17 10 04:35 pm Link I hate pictures of feet.... but I have better things to do that start a thread on it.  Jun 17 10 04:36 pm Link LOL there will always be something on here someone else hates seeing. I don't really mind the on the knees pose...but if I go to a photographers port and a majority of his photos have that pose it begins to get annoying and a turn off. But it is a typical glamour pose, so if you shoot glamour, it's hard to avoid it. Jun 17 10 04:36 pm Link Fred Gerhart wrote: Clevvvver response. Well thought out. Jun 17 10 04:37 pm Link Rebel Photo wrote: Hey Rebel...............did you even read the entire OP post................ohhhhhhhhhhhhh better not look at my port ;-) Jun 17 10 04:39 pm Link Cliched? - Maybe Degrading- No Jun 17 10 04:42 pm Link 255 West wrote: I am sure it was as well considered and clever as your thread Jun 17 10 04:43 pm Link Rebel Photo wrote: But not better things to do than to respond to the thread? Jun 17 10 04:43 pm Link BODYSHOP FEETURES wrote: too late ..now I need therapy! Jun 17 10 04:44 pm Link 255 West wrote: Give them what they want... or make something so new that they didnt know that they wanted that instead... Jun 17 10 04:44 pm Link 255 West wrote: Maybe. Jun 17 10 04:46 pm Link 255 West wrote: you started this with a lame rant. what do you expect? Jun 17 10 04:46 pm Link There are worse things to worry about. Jun 17 10 04:47 pm Link 255 West wrote: thats right. If I started it, I'd be resigned to follow thru...and listen to all the wise cracks it generated. I prefer to remain in the gallery and make fun of silly threads. Jun 17 10 04:47 pm Link 255 West wrote: I have 5 photos in my ports on my knees. That means both knees. I have a couple on one knee, but I didn't count those. Of those five: Jun 17 10 04:52 pm Link Personally I like having girls on their knees in front of me Jun 17 10 04:52 pm Link Wow, you may have just given me a way to salvage my photography hobby. Since moving to my new place I've been saddled with a garage studio that's barely 7 feet floor to ceiling, trim off height for paper rollers, etc, and I've been scouring the interwebs for midget models. Models on their knees. GENIUS! Jun 17 10 04:55 pm Link So far, I haven't read any real responses other than people sarcastically saying it's a non-issue. My deeper point that no one seems to see is of visual clichés. Is there no creativity and thinking of doing something unique, fresh, eye-catching ... something to make the viewer exclaim, "WOW! That's great!", instead of "I can hire a thousand people to do this same shot. What else you got? NEXT!" Jun 17 10 04:55 pm Link Degrading? Um, ok. Jun 17 10 04:55 pm Link If it wasn't selling, people wouldn't be doing it I suppose... We all like our own thing... Anyway, I see nice pictures of girls on their knees all over... Here is one of me on one knee in a garage.  Here are more...      Here is one on the knees that is on the beach... Jun 17 10 04:57 pm Link Fauxtographer wrote: Okay, fair enough, I withdraw this part of my thread. Models on their knees IS genius. Jun 17 10 04:57 pm Link 255 West wrote: I don't see how a model on her knees is a visual cliche... train tracks are cliche, caution tape is cliche, toilet shots are cliche. Jun 17 10 04:57 pm Link 255 West wrote: Why don't you start? I am sure others will follow your example when you do! Jun 17 10 04:58 pm Link 255 West wrote: your the one hating, why are you trying to be so rude to others. Jun 17 10 04:58 pm Link 255 West wrote: Your examples are NOT cliché shots. Good work; seriously. At least SOMEONE is trying. Jun 17 10 04:59 pm Link 255 West wrote: Oh... I KNOW!!! Jun 17 10 05:03 pm Link What about on the knees, nekkid, face on the floor, hands behind the back in a cold and bloody dark studio? 18+ https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/17852015 Jun 17 10 05:05 pm Link Blakberi Photography wrote: Creative copout. (Sorry.) Jun 17 10 05:06 pm Link Fauxtographer wrote: Or you can just work with short models... Jun 17 10 05:07 pm Link Why is it degrading? I've spent most of my career on my knees. And that's not even innuendo. On-the-knees sea shore posing is not meant to illicit thoughts of blow jobs, you know. The model needs to be close to the surf without being way out to sea, and kneeling is more attractive than sitting because it engages muscles and prevents squishing. It's actually a very practical pose. If you're offended by it, it's probably a connection YOU'RE making to the pose, not the pose itself. As to the pose in other uses, I've seen a lot of on-the-knees posing in studio glamor, mostly with swimsuit and lingerie, but little on other locations, likely because kneeling on sidewalk and such can be really uncomfortable! I'm not sure a single element of a pose can be cliche. Is leaning against a wall cliche? Are s-curves in figure nudes cliche? And gawd, those models who make eye contact with the camera... SOOOO done. From my own portfolio, I have these kneeling poses, none of which seem particularly... randy.  Topless Topless Nude Jun 17 10 05:07 pm Link 255 West wrote: Of course you're not. All of us who have no access to beaches are annoyed, too. Jun 17 10 05:08 pm Link Digital Vinyl wrote: I looked at the shot. I like it. A creative "on the knees" shot. Fabulous lighting. This is by no means a cliché image. Jun 17 10 05:09 pm Link 255 West wrote: No more erotic position a woman can assume. Used for one purpose only. Jun 17 10 05:09 pm Link Brett Michael Nelson wrote: LOL I saw this and it made me howl. Jun 17 10 05:09 pm Link Brett Michael Nelson wrote: You and me both. Jun 17 10 05:10 pm Link DHV Images wrote: Prayer? Jun 17 10 05:11 pm Link Well are you talking on hands and knees with arched back and fish face. Woof, woof. It is kind of funny I try to lighten the mood for new at modeling women . So in explaing the poses I would like not to see... I demonstrated that pose, by my own example to a newbie. As a way of showing I do not want silly sexualized images. It breaks the ice nicely. But then I really am into shooting Art, not cheesecake.. Others can do what they want. Jun 17 10 05:12 pm Link Beats the hell out of them sitting on a toilet seat. Jun 17 10 05:13 pm Link 255 West wrote: Here's a serious answer, then. There are certain poses and types of shots that almost always work, in many settings, with different figures. This is one of those, which is why you see it everywhere from GWC's books to Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. It is also a pose that works in a horizontal format. As far as variety ... well, you can use different lighting or add accessories, etc. Jun 17 10 05:13 pm Link |
