The commenting cock up continues. I have changed my settings so you can comment (I hope) without an email address, but with no custom gravatar,. If you use an email associated with a gravatar or wordpress account, you have to sign in apparently. All very annoying.
Orbea strolled down Oxford Street. Irony ensues. Poor old Kevin really is the fatback 07 now, but what about glamour photography? Is it now all the young kids hip hopping and dubstepping with their instagrams and hipstamatics cross processing random flange? No room left for Kevin or a wet shirt. This sick city.
The Worst of Perth 
Turns out the word glamor doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
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Eh?
What did you think that it meant?
It’s always been about tits and bums for me.
The shape! The shape! It’s all about the shape!
(…and what you think that you’d enjoy doing to/with it!)
“If I said that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?”
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Yeah, that’s exactly what glamour photography is.
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and it’s always the ones you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot barge pole who come up with the crap lines like rolly’s.
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My upbringing enabled me to do the irony as well as the ironing.
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Probably throwing it out because he’s mastered it. boozies, check, hint of flange but not too much!
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no, i suspect it’s the opposite of what you were thinking.
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Oh the joys of finding out when teaching 14 year old girls – Essex girls, of course.
(the things we learn from children…)
Yes, it was when we were canvassing life ambitions, too.
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‘Glamour’ has meant ‘booby’ for many years now, surely? eg “footballers’ wives all look very glamorous on Brownlow Night”
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You were probably thinking of the unsuccessful stuff, shaz, as opposed to this explanation of every facet of this fascinating, complicated, competitive, yet lucrative genre of photography.
p.s. Citing Dr Hook only makes it worse, rolly.
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Why pay $2.70 when you can get it for free on Oxford?
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You mean the book, right ?
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I’ve never had to pay for it.
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That does fill in a few blanks for me Snuff. I can get on board with the competitive and lucrative, but I’m still not getting the complicated bit.
And no Rolly, you most certainly cannot.
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don’t fancy a bit in a baravan with an aged taff?
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As tempted as I am…
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Wowser, Eh?
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As for the complicated; the art of successful artificial lighting on the human is in itself complex and, at times, damnably frustrating.
Avoiding or minimising natural imperfections is not done by airbrushing alone.
Keeping the model happy while you are piss-farting around trying to get things right is another acquired skill, as is convincing the sweet-young-things who actually need little embellishment to expose themselves to the camera’s scrutiny.
Keeping the wannabees at arms length is also a bit of a challenge, with an oversupply of unsuitable hopefuls who really had none – hope, that is; in the meantime keeping the morality police out of the scene.
I can’t genuinely claim to have enjoyed my brief encounter with the whole sleazy business.
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Is that you at 1:05, rolly ?
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Evolution caused by intense competition for mates inevitably leads to optimal adaptation to the environment.
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Specialisation to the MAX.
It’s good to know that this exists.
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Dr.Hook weren’t even twinkles in their daddies eyes when I first heard that old sleaze line, Snuff.
It goes well back into the early ’20s, I believe.
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Looks like it could be from the 70s, the golden era of glamour photography when everyone owned a shag pile rug.
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Kevin Rudd the musical had hit a snag as his star slowly fades , and the part of Gruelia De JillHard will have to be increased. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy the song ” In tha communidy youse can all scoff…..”
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Kevin rudd had a musical, seriously?
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It’s almost a political comment – Kevin 07 turned out to be as useless as tits on a bull … however, given the model in question ain’t exactly a bull, maybe another cliche could apply to the Ruddster circa five years ago: Added water makes its own sauce …
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Surely Therese could afford a set-top box?
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