How to Photograph Implied Nudity

Series Summary

Photography is the art of making pictures by exposing film or another medium to a timed flash of light. The basic equipment used for photography includes a digital or mechanical camera equipped with a flash, film or a memory card. Mastering the art of photography is a technical and challenging experience. One must learn how to focus the lens, control the aperture of the lens, filter the light and understand the importance of the focal length and duration of the exposure, among other things. In this free video series, get some advice for beginning a career in photography. Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer that also offers photography classes to a variety of students. With his advice, find out the basic photography equipment that is required for starting fashion, sports, wedding and architectural photographers. Maddaloni discusses the importance of becoming an assistant in order to learn the tricks of the trade as a photographer. Also, get tips for buying and using a digital camera to make money. Want to become more photogenic in front of the camera? Let Maddaloni give some simple tips for increasing the natural beauty of portrait photographs. So, take a moment and increase basic photographer knowledge today!

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to talk about how to photograph implied nudity. Now, certain types of boudoir photography, even photography of, you know, moms, pregnancy photography, you know, just portrait photograph, you don't maybe necessarily want to have your subject nude; maybe your subject doesn't want to be nude. These are certain ways that you can imply nudity. One way that I like to do it is by silhouetting somebody. They can totally have a certain amount of clothes on, a bathing suit for instance, and you could have them silhouetted against a wall or it can actually look like they're nude. That is one of the best tricks that I use when I'm trying to imply that someone is naked when they're not really naked. But you might want to use an image like that in a photo story or, basically, maybe even someone wants that image for their wife or their husband but they don't want to be naked in front of you as a photographer. So that's one way that you can use implied photography. You could also use Photoshop to capture your image. And that's how I would use implied nudity."