Natural Beauties by Eolake Stobblehouse Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Natural Beauties
Book Review: Narrow definition, but true beauty
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoy this collection, for all the reasons the editor want me to like it for. The models are young, charming, and unaffected. Their poses are [generally] natural and comfortable. Their figures vary somewhat, as people do - some fuller of bust, some charmingly slender. Each one looks like someone I'd like to meet. The big artistic concept here is that there is no big artistic concept. I also like the multiple images and poses of each model, showing more of the variety there is in each unique woman.
Still, the models do tend towards a type: European in features and coloring, twentyish and young-looking even so, and the figures vary only within a limited range. The look is beautiful (or at least pretty), but just one of the many kinds of beauty in the world of women. If you don't have to spend too much, it will add a soft and warm touch to any collection of figure photography.
//wiredweird
Book Review: Natural Beauties
Summary: 5 Stars
It was refreshing to review a book of nude photographs of women where the photos were real, untouched & not posed in a way to exploit the models. I have always had an interest in nude photography & the beauty of the female form. Top marks to the photographers, models & editor.Book Review: Natural Beauties with Natural Light...
Summary: 5 Stars
As a glamour and nude photographer myself, I purchased this book for ideas and inspiration--I was not dissatisfied at all. I love the use of natural lighting, sometimes less means more and this book packs more than most if you're a connoisseur of natural beauty. I recommend anyone interested in this type of photography, buy it now!
As an author of Garage Glamour: Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple, and Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images I recommend this book should not only be on a collector's list, but for any student of photography--we're always learning no matter what level your photography. ---Rolando Gomez, contributing writer, Studio Photography magazine
Book Review: New Movement, or Flash in the Pan? DOMEI is for Dummies
Summary: 1 Stars
Reading the high-falutin' statements of its mission, one could get excited about DOMEI; But seeing this book, edited by one of its proponents, should flatten your hopes and make you suspicious of any photographer who eschews being identified as an"artist". The models in this cheesily-bound hardcover are, on the other hand, hardly "artless". Rather, they project (if naively -- being mostly teenagers) that they are ready to do things to you and for you, the gauping male, that will give you a good time. This volume is Playboy Liberated with a nuance of the Hustler type of personal desensitizing.
The models have no relationship to the landscape, so one wishes they would be removed, allowing one to enjoy the wheat field and wooded glen uncompromised. Rather than fight for and achieve a place in simple nature, the nude here becomes a desecration.
Book Review: Nice, very nice
Summary: 4 Stars
The emphasis is natural. The girls are all very attractive, but don't conform to the supermodel/playmate type of "beauty" hyped by the western media. Most of the girls are eastern Europeans, so if you are into this group (like myself), this is a keeper.
The photography is generally excellent (again, in natural settings), though nothing that really stands out compared to others in this category.
Only downside: I wish the book/pictures is larger in length and width (pictures are only about 6x4"). So to the author/publisher: increase the size for the next edition (we know there are many more pictures) and we don't mind paying more for a bigger book.