Your correspondent is full of it! The pin-up implies sex & sexy without being overtly, graphically pornographic. The background is immaterial.
If you're going for TRADITIONAL, all you need is a hot babe in a one piece bathing costume: http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/betty-garble-pin-up/ http://www.mostlyposters.com/images/posters/fullsize/50229.jpg ... and for balance (per knarF): http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/05/article-0-0060192600000258-707_468x474.jpg You can use any year automobile you want for your pin-ups. No one's going to be looking at the damn car anyway. See also: Alberto Vargas, Esquire Magazine & Nose art. On 2/23/2014 5:09 PM, Larry Colen 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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