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The Elusive Spanking Art
Yesterday, in the comments to this post, I suggested that D. Brian Nelson of Hotel Room Nudes should have a subsidiary blog to deal with spanking erotica. To my astonishment, he listened.
He created “Hotel Room Spankings” just for one day. It had one post: a picture of two girls at spanking play, and an explanation of why creating spanking art was such hard work. With his permission, I’m reposting it here:
That picture is the only real spanking picture I have, though I’d love to do more. I am primarily a photographer and only secondarily (or even farther down the list) a spankophile.
Photographically, the problems are to show motion, and to show faces. Faces are necessary for a photograph to be sexual. An identity – a person – must be there, not only a body. Putting butts and faces in the same photograph in a way that’s not too strained is difficult and making each photograph different would be almost impossible, so I haven’t pursued it. That said, I have made some D/s pictures that implied varying amounts of control and humiliation, though having been there I know that seldom are those things real.
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thats cool :) id be slightly more inclined to read a cameraman/womans views but its still nice that D Brian Nelson took your advice. :) if he posts more then i might become a regular reader :P like i am with you :)
obviously not going to post more then i see :P
“I have made some D/s pictures that implied varying amounts of control and humiliation, though having been there I know that seldom are those things real.”
Hrrrrm. Does he really mean that D/s doesn’t involve real control or humiliation? Or just that D/s photoshoots are usually faked?
I took it to mean that a photoshoot shoot is rarely the best place to experience the joys of a deep d/s experience…
Pandora,
There is a lot I take into consideration when doing an erotic photoshoot. My work isn’t commercial and I don’t do series pictures. Each one has to stand on it’s own. The feature within the photograph have to be arranged both from a compositional point of view and to create a storyline. If I can’t select a place to shoot from that will give me those things, I will arrange the players so that I do get them.
I simply have no idea at all about how other photographers work. I can’t answer your question of “usually faked.” In my work, the play is usually real. But because the purpose is the photography and not the scene, I will do whatever is necessary to make it look real, even if that means faking it.
-Don
Sorry. That last comment had a website that no longer exists. This one links to the blog.
-D