Flutterby™! : Photography for Perverts

Just finished reading Charles Gatewood's Photography for Perverts, from Greenery Press, ISBN 1-890159-53-0, which I'd ordered after I noticed mentions of it on Good Vibrations Magazine.

My complaints are all related to my expectations. As a motivational tool, this book is great. It's got some good "go get 'em, tiger" pep talks, a bunch of good pictures with a number of different styles that should motivate you if you're into heavy fetish imagery, and a few light suggestions about equipment. And the URL list at the end of the book is probably worth the price of admission.

But while there are a few suggestions which might help hone an artistic vision, this book won't necessarily help you take better pictures of your lover. He has a sample dialog with a model, but it's not a "here's why I said 'Don't stand flat footed'", it's more a "here are the sorts of things you can ask for from your model."

So on reading this, I'm motivated to develop an artistic vision and find some people to help me create some cool images. But while I feel like taking those pictures is in reach, I'm still casting about for the sorts of images I'd like to make.

In fact, I think if he's done anything it's encouraged me to go buy the David Steinberg edited Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age for the variety of images, so that I can start to investigate why I do and don't find each sort of image compelling.