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Anonymous
/p/, this is part of a photo project I'm working on; "Surreal Photography".

Do you have anything to say about this? Suggestions, etc.? Used fill flash on 1/64 power. Main light is the ambient light coming from the window and reflected off of the foam core.
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>> Anonymous
if i didn't feel so uncomfortable i'd say "sweet pic"
>> Anonymous
This would be win with a nekkid woman. As it is now, I must say shit sucks.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
Forgive my ignorance, but is this actually surreal? Conceptual, certainly.
Cool shot, though.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Needs less naked man-ass, more naked woman-ass.

Other than that, though, good pic. Your ass?
>> Anonymous
wtf

it's dumb or something along those lines


a naked man facing a square of light and on the floor? what the shit


this shit is experimental not surreal or sweet or conceptual.


Well huh, i would have said the extreeeeeeeeeeeeeem opposite if the model was a woman with a sweet ass. Do it witha woman damnit, not a gay faggot please.
>> Anonymous
Okay, it's not funny to begin with let alone 3 times. Stop telling him to put a woman in the fucking photo.

/THREAD
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>154416
So are you a woman or just gay?
>> washer
maybe have some dismemberment
>> sv !!vC9KZM3Ch/H
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oh hai

i unfagged ure foto
>> beethy !HJGkSBB3Ao
>>154523
best photo ever

>>154397
not so much
>> Cancer that is killing /g/ !zkraGArAss
itt homophobes. quit calling it crap. if it was a woman in the same position and was posted about the size of a wallpaper, all of you fucking cunts would have it as your wallpaper and you'd be calling it the best photo ever or some shit.

jesus christ.
>> Anonymous
>>154549
But it's not a woman.
>> Anonymous
This photograph is acceptable.
>> Anonymous
>>154523


OKAY NOW WE'RE TALKING
>> Anonymous
agreed with not surreal at all.
>> Anonymous
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fixed his feat

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>> Anonymous
>>154665
And urinated on the pic?
>> Anonymous
>>154675
>>154675

just a bit :D
>> Anonymous
>>154523
requiring megapixulz version to use as wp.
oh wait...
>> Anonymous
>>154677
: )
>> Jal
I would try to make the wall on the right more straight... looks to... papermaché.
>> Anonymous
I really like it. It ask's questions not only about whats happening in the photo, but also about the viewer. It asks us less refined people (IE anyone who isn't used to males posing nude) if we really like explicit art, or if we really just like the female form.
The photo itself asks a lot of questions as well. Whats happening, where is it happening, why is it happening. What is going on with the pose (not in a negative sense, but why would someone be making that gesture otherwise) i dig it.
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>154706

This. I'm always amazed at how people cannot distinguish between the two. Sure, I've got a female bias (I just think females tend to be better looking - keyword tend), but I can certainly appreciate appropriate male forms.

I think it's a combination of most being confusing aesthetic with sexual preference, and there simply having been more effort expended into making women look good in art (easier to find aesthetically appealing art of women than men).

Actually, on the note of effort, God it's annoying how pitiful the selection of clothing is for men compared to women - I want something formal that isn't a uniform, and isn't so stiflingly hot.
>> mmm yea Anony
reminds me of the one part of clockwork orange
>> BurtGummer
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Here, I "surrealed it for you"

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>> Anonymous
>>154732
>>154706

OP here. Thanks for the only two intelligent responses; I'm disappointed by how many people dislike it just because I don't have tits. (I used myself).

I intend for people to look at it artistically, not sexually. I should have known most of 4chan wouldn't be intelligent enough to realize this.

Anyway, do you people think I should shoop out the corner lines and make it into a white void or keep the cube-like form?
>> Anonymous
>>154839

>I intend for people to look at it artistically, not sexually.


What you intended and what happened obviously didn't match up. Therefore, you failed.
>> Anonymous
ITT: amazing troll or art school cunt?
>> BurtGummer
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>>154839

Its well composed, try straightening up the lines a little to make it more "Industrial".

It isnt overly surreal though. You need to put thought into the surreal, then people will stop and contemplate the photo.

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>> Anonymous
>>154845
i concur. make the lines more solid. Try to take away the look of paper, make them look like actual walls. btw sick concept of building this up around a window. I wouldn't have thought about that.
>> Anonymous
>>154397

shoop out the lines and post it.
try try try everything you think of
>> Anonymous
>>154842
No. You failed at interpreting.
>> Anonymous
>>154885

excuse me but how was this supposed to be interpreted? Naked vulnerable man is blinded by the light? Sad naked vulnerable man? Trapped?
>> Anonymous
>>154889
Not every nude model in photography implies sex. Stop looking at porn for a few minutes and get that through your head.
>> Anonymous
right... quite simply, if you are uncomfortable with seeing a man-ass, then you are insecure in your sexuality.... and you really should get over to it.
>> sv !!vC9KZM3Ch/H
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oh hai

i fixed ure photo AGAIN
>> Anonymous
>>154934
Pretty much.
>> beethy !HJGkSBB3Ao
>>154992
holy fuck, it's b/w dog
>> Anonymous
>>154992
wow. guess I am a meme.
PS. I'm the guy in the picture that eveyrone keeps photoshpopping. And and im hammered rigth now. college ftw
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
guaranteed fact: go to your local college's senior photo gallery. you will see naked self-portraits taken by male photographers. it's a grim, inescapable truth.

somehow, all photo students equate nude self-portraits with brutally honest, bracing works of art. in reality, it's just a phase they all go through. it's sort of like macro, photoshop vignettes, hdr, abandoned buildings, flowers, gorgeous pet portraits, super shallow DOF macro, and strobist phases for amateurs.
>> Anonymous
>>155234

TEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSTT
>> Anonymous
>>155231
You're a meme because you're so full of fail. Enjoy.
>> Anonymous
>>155234

When does the good photographs stage kick in?
>> des
>>155255
right before death
>> Anonymous
>>154397
Is not Surreal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

Illustrating an Alice in Chains song does not make it surreal.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>155234
So basically anything.
What isn't a phase?
>> Anonymous
>>155316
It's a phase when you exclusively through it. Even I went through macro flower DOF garden photography. I was a noob and took an easily composed photo of a flower and was all "OMG THIS IS PRETTY" and started snapping up nothing but flowers for the next few hours until the sun went too low then when I moved all my jpegs from the card to the computer and saw all the thumbnails at once and I was all "damn, these are all the same and boring".
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>155316

art.

it's sort of a you'll-know-when-you-know kind of thing.
>> Anonymous
>>155326

No.
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>155330

yes.
>> Anonymous
>>155335

no.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
>>155326
Yeah, my sarcasm failed. I just thought the long laundry list was funny.
>> Anonymous
you can almost see his butthole...almost
>> Anonymous
ITT: The gender double standard
>> Anonymous
>>155234

OP here: not a phase, stop trying to sound smart. The project highly recommends the absence of clothing because it "causes distraction," as my professor put it. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it.

Also: according to your logic, everything anyone does is a phase. This has some amount of truth to it, but it's how students learn and experiment with different types of photography. In phases. Is that really such a bad thing?
>> Anonymous
>>155437
instead, try to make something more surrealistic and use clothes to reinforce the surrealism somehow.
>> Anonymous
>>155359

Such is human nature. And why I hate people.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>155437
>The project highly recommends the absence of clothing
I think your professor just wanted to see naked students. Pervert.

(Yeah, I'm jealous)
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>155437

nah, there's nothing wrong with phases. it's how you get to making really good photographs, by shooting a billion trite cliches that seem really awesome at first but age quickly and poorly.

and this is most definitely a phase. i've seen more than my share of this exact type of photo to know better.
>> Anonymous
>>155451

I don't know if you're thinking the same as me, but I am considering aiming to be a photography professor. Normally having naked photos of your students gets you time in prison.
>> Anonymous
>>155454
not if they are over 18. just become a college photo professor!
>> Anonymous
>>155453

Because you say what something is does not make it so. A phase would require him to have done a lot of these. Do you know that he has? Or are you so stuck up in your little thoughts that you assume he has?
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>155490

who says you can't go through a phase with one big photo? a photo student might produce two or three photos he or she considers truly important in one year.

but i'll play along and pretend you're not op. yes, i'm stuck in my little thoughts and am just assuming he's made more than one of these, though just one would suffice to constitute a phase in a serious photographer's oeuvre.
>> Warren !WSxruxpIJs
>>155457
Might not get you jail time, but it can still make you lose your job, ruin your reputation, and hit you with a massive sexual harassment lawsuit. Google the name "Larry Nighswander." Former National Geographic photo editor (and photographer), well regarded in the field, started shooting students in the nude and got all of the above. He was director of the school of Visual Communications at Ohio University when I was there. Shit was stupid.
>> Anonymous
>>155590

Bitches always fucking shit up

Seriously.
>> Anonymous
>>155590

He got in trouble? What kind of pictures were they? Porno? Did he remember that when shooting students in the nude that they were the ones meant to be in the nude?

No one wants to see his cock flapping about while they are posing for a photo.
>> Anonymous
just take a macro shot of a tit, damnit