Morph01 said
I do agree with Bailey that every photoshoot is a mini love-affair. If you don't have that connection, you can't expect to get results.
I don't think I could function if I thought like that. My relationship with models is closer to gay-best-friend (though I'm neither of those) than it lover affair.
Morph01 said
Holly Alexander Photography said
Of course it's totally personal to each individual.
I definitely don't consider it sexual myself, I'm not thinking any sexual thoughts or getting turned on. I do love capturing people and feel that it's an intimate process. Intimate doesn't always mean sexual.
Exactly!
Yes. It varies from person to person. I think some of the best photos I've made have been intimate without being sexual, there is something about a model trusting a photographer to take some photos which just wouldn't work with the "quite a sexual experience" thing going on. Similarly there are photos which are erotically charged but not vulgar (which is what I'm interested in making), pictures which are erotic and vulgar (traditional porn) and pictures that are sexually vulgar without being especially erotic (fanny snaps as I tend to call them, or 'failed porn')
Some of my pictures are, in some way, about (rather than of) sex. Nudes that I do tend to be more figure studies, and pretty asexual - which is how I got tagged with this silly handle of mine. If I'm doing something that registers on the erotic scale well... put it this way, someone in Bailey's league might be able to do lights, camera settings, direction, etc and still have capacity left over to think sexual thoughts. For the rest of us it's one or the other, it takes everything I've got to do lights and camera