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 [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
