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Just a quick note to say that I'm doing fine and that I've been taking more pictures, still using my old Canon IXUS 60 (although one friend is offering me to get his previous digital SLR for fairly cheap - which is really tempting and would significantly improve the image quality of my works).

My most recent pictures involve a friend whom I've met through other activities and who, upon hearing that I'm building my portofolio, spontaneously volunteered to model and who had no quibles whatsoever about being naked in front of my camera. Even better of a surprise was to notice that she has physical memory, that is, I can tell her to stop into her movement and "rewind" to a posture she was holding just a few seconds before.

My photo retouching skills have also improved dramatically. I'm still using gThumb's build-in cropping and color editing tools for this. It works well, without the added complexities that Gimp would introduce. I like it a lot.

Meanwhile, I stil haven't reach a firm conclusion about what material is worth uploading here. Instead, I've uploaded a few samples to my Model Mayhem account and I've also selected tame shots from my most memorable sessions to upload to my Facebook scrapbook. I haven't had too much feedback on my MM account, but friends regularly "like" the material I've put on FB.

Also, I've finally found a focus for my first exhibition's portfolio:  

1) body landscapes.  

For those unfamiliar with body landscapes, it's basically closeups of nude people made to look as abstract as possible e.g. large stretches of someone's back, with one hip showing in the corner; closeup of the belly really showing the skin's grain upclose, etc.

2) nudity in movement.  

For the second theme, I'm mostly aiming at shooting pictures of athletes or ballet dancers in mid-movement, because I really love seeing a physically fit person in the nude, with the muscles flexing in all sorts of complicated ways and moving in a dynamic way.

I figure that between static shots of abstract nudity and dynamic shots of nude physically fit people, I should have a good balance.

What about you? How is life treating you? Any feedback on the above? Or perhaps you would be interested in participating in my current projects?
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I've procrastinated this one forever, but here we go:

www.modelmayhem.com/perkelix

Hopefully this will make it easier for interested models to find me. Currently, most of the pictures there feature nomadsorcerer as the model, but I'm probably gonna upload a few shots I recently made with other models, because these newer pictures show a dramatic improvement of my photographic skills.
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Recently I've been taking loads of new pictures with several new models: my girlfriend's high school crush, an old friend who suddenly decided that she likes posing, a karate-loving friend with a really trim sporty body and wonderful breasts, etc. In a nutshell: I'm having a ball. There's only one problem: I still cannot make my mind up about which shots are worth uploading to DA and which ones are not.
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Recently, I got around experiencing what it feels like for my models to be nude in front of the camera when nomadsorcerer asked me to bare it all for a whole series of Black & White pictures she needed as reference material to paint new paintings since, at the Art School where she studies, she specializes in anatomy drawing and, this time, she felt that she really could do a series of male nudes, for a change.

While I spontaneously volunteered, I kept on shivering at the thought for a number of days since, in the past, I had received so many disrespectful comments about my body ­- from both prospective sexual partners and from photographers whose male nudes I enjoyed and to whom I had cautiously volunteered as a model - that I had tons of apprehensions about how I would manage in front of the camera.

Looking back, accepting to model for her was the most liberating decision I've taken in ages:

After a few minutes of initial embarrassment about the erection that popped out of the blanket I was holding, I eventually found the guts to just proudly assume the boldest positions, without thinking twice about whether I projected the right image or not. Much to my surprise, it worked! While the signs of age indeed show on some of the pictures (heck, I ain't exactly as fresh and healthy as I was in my 20's...), I was still surprised to find that I can look damn sexy in front of the camera, in more ways than I imagined, from the classical Greek statue poses to the more corny gay calendar styles - all within the space of a single afternoon of shooting.

In a nutshell, despite feeling so old and worn-out, I discovered that I can actually look good. It's not just a major ego-booster, it's also a fantastic experience to feel what my models feel and to come out of it feeling so much more positive about a million things.
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nomadsorcerer and I have been dating since April. While we haven't met via DA, our first intention was to have her model for me and she indeed does. The wonderful surprise was to find a soulmate in her. I've been in photo and sex heaven ever since!

I took a HUGE amount of pictures in the space of a few sessions and I'm really satisfied with the results; she really knows how to flirt with the camera and, as long as I remember to take my tripod with me, I know how to capture the moment quite nicely.

However, there is one problem: I cannot seem to make up my mind about which pictures to upload to DA, because there's too many good shots to choose from! HELP!!!
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