On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Attila Boros <attila.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Poster sized pictures of pretty girls "pinned up" on a wall / door /
> something, hence the term pinup.

For guys of my generation, they were posters of rim lighted women, Ferraris, 
and maybe bottles of wine as a third element.


> Chalking it up on the nose of
> aircraft also qualifies but I doubt you will do that:) Look up some

Nose art.

> photos of Bettie Page for example. Having cars in it is a subgenre.
> You might want to use older cars to make it look like something from
> between 1940-1960 or thereabout IF you go for the authentic look.

I don’t particularly care about authentic.

> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
>> In another forum I made a comment that it might be fun to do a pin-up
>> style shoot at the Canepa museum.  I got some interesting critiques of
>> the idea from one person in particular.  Some quotes:
>> 
>> ... They have a lot of nice cars, but mostly ex-race cars... Only a couple 
>> hot rods. ...
>> 
>> To which I replied, showing my own prejudices:
>> 
>> "We would definitely have to talk to them first.
>> 
>> As to the cars, race cars are what hot rods pretend to be."
>> 
>> Her reply was:
>> If you're going for a traditional pin-up look, you don't want to be standing 
>> next to a 1974 Porsche in a museum. You want to be standing next to a pre-62 
>> hot rod or kustom. Something that is distinctly American and not pretending 
>> to be anything other than what it is. The hot rod and kustom culture that 
>> originated in post-war California still exists in a vibrant way, and is 
>> accessible to those who want to shoot traditional pin-up photography and not 
>> just photos of girls with cars.
>> 
>> I said that I didn't particularly care to be authentic, and asked what
>> I should call it.  She said:
>> 
>> Perhaps you should use the term "girls with cars" rather than pin-up for 
>> what you're doing. The last shoot you did would more closely fall under the 
>> genre of portraiture than pin-up. Using high-key lighting as you did in that 
>> shoot is considered very amateur in the pin-up photographer community.
>> 
>> So, some questions to those who know more about pin-up photography than I,
>> which isn't setting the bar very high:
>> 
>> What is the definition of "pin-up" photography?
>> 
>> Is high-key lighting really considered amateurish?
>> 
>> Only pre-1962 American cars?  Really?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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