Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
- William Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII
At first glance, I wasn't very impressed with David-Nudes. It looked like another ordinary website of a photographer trying to make some money by listing some of his works. However, after a closer inspection it turned out that he has a slightly different approach.
The first thing that a user may notice is that the entire website is publicly accessible, and it seems to have been like that for a few months now. After delving deeper into the website the sets don't really look that different from the sets that you may find at any other website, except that you can sometimes see the reactions on the models faces and notice that he doesn't use the same techniques and settings over and over again. David sometimes accompanies his sets with a tutorial containing a description of the concept behind those sets and even how he created those sets, and this is something to be respected, even though it may restrict one's interpretation of some of his beautiful works.
There are also video interviews of the models, which simply add to one's fascination and gives the person a glimpse into the model's personalities and souls, thus helping him appreciate the art more fully and to realize that models aren't passive subjects in nude photography.
He also made some photoshoots with a wonderful model named Olya, showing the beauty in the variety of human bodies. It is something that I really appreciated and respected.
Anyway, this website has the potential to be one of the best websites out there. We will just have to wait and see how it turns out, I am very optimistic.
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