Ah! I think I understand what you are really having an issue with in these shots, Larry: it's that the photographer is objectifying the motorcycle.
He is depicting the Ducati as primarily a sexy posing support for the pretty model and taking away from its other use as a way to get from point A to point B very quickly, or from point A back to point A again around a track, extremely quickly. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:17:48PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 07:04:09PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Good gawd no, Larry. You only do that for sheer comedy. >> >> >> >> Here's what happens when you pose men like women: >> >> http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/alicia-mariah-elfving-ducati-dealership >> >> >> >> Try to view that with a straight face. I dare you! ;-) >> > >> > I think that that page goes a long way to pointing out some of the >> > ridiculousness that is common in photographing women. >> > I suppose that I should have said "equivalent" rather than the >> > "the same" pose. >> >> Ridiculous? Really? They are glamour shots. The woman looks _amazing_. >> Look, you and are just wired differently, Larry. :-) > > I think most people are wired differently than me. My idea of a > sexy photo involving a woman and a ducatti would involve her wearing knee > pads, > and dragging them on the rumble strip at the apex of a turn. > Either that or with her wrenching on the thing. > > What can I say, the sexiest woman I ever saw on TV might have been > Kaylee from Firefly. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
