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Glamour Images: Facing The Future
Must I fear? I'm into beauty photography. I depict people, actual persons. I follow a completely digital workflow. Will I be completely outdated soon?
What I wouldn't give to learn where the path of progress will lead Glamour Images. And I would be happy to share this with you, dear photographer, in my glamour blog. Then on the other hand, it might be that we photographers soon dont play a big role in this game anymore. Almost a half of the whole creative process is now performed in applications like Photoshop. The first half of the creation process, the actual taking of a photograph, is still with us. The time may come though when photographers are replaced by specialized 3D rendering software.
But in order to get a feel for the future of something it is absolutely worth taking a close look at the present and also visiting the past.
There was time when beauty images and glamour art only existed in the form of oil paintings. From simple portraits to frivolous depictions of nude bodies, these artistic creations were carried out by famous virtuosos like da Vinci and Michelangelo. Cameras dawned just "recently" in terms of world history - in the middle of the 19th century. These were big bulky dry-plate cameras for studio use, which required quite long shutter times. Nevertheless portrait photography quickly acquired popularity, though subjects had to remain motionless for quite a long time. Often head-clamps were used to help the subject holding their head still during the exposure. Quite obviously, the sight of a person with a clamped head had little to do with glamour.
With the advent of photography and the advances of camera technology the game changed. Shooting photos on film made it affordable and practical to shoot glamour photos. Magazines started publishing such photos. I remember when the Playboy photographer David Mecey mentioned the recent time, when they took photos for Playboy centerfold with large format cameras - otherwise the quality would suffer. Poor guys had to carry around a whole lot of lights and they often drove the whole place crazy with their strobes.
Currently glamour photos are pretty much always taken with digital cameras. Those of small and medium-sized format. Due to the increasedquality and resolution almost any digital camera can produce a photo to fit on a magazine's centerfold.
Now future of Artistic Glamour Photography will be quite interesting. Shall we witness the dawn of 3D technology? Should it be so, then it's already there. One of my favorite magazines on Photoshop now comprises many pieces about various 3D software. Internet now hosts more and more 3D rendered glamour pictures. I've got friends out there who have their own virtual identities and post Flickr photo streams filled with rendered images. Their own virtual glamour gallery! Surfing on the Internet, it's quite noticeable that many people use specialized 3D software only to make up some feminine, exotic and beautiful models. Indeed, they bear much resemblance with glamour pictures.
It's possible that we glamour photographers will become living anachronisms. Glamour artists be wary, but don't fall to panic! Personally, I trust in what I do. Just as painting and film have survived, there will always be a huge demand for digital glamour images, made with a DSLR, inspiration, fine lighting and much love.
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