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? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.