I agree in regard to the cars. Fifties and forties American for an authentic pin-up look. Haven't given much thought to the light, but I would think you want to achieve a look that invokes illustration, per Vargas.
Paul via phone > On Feb 23, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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 [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. -- 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.
