Avoiding the Cookie Cutter

Hi everyone. Ryder here. Welcome to all the new subscribers.

I was talking with a photographer friend of mine the other day, expressing my feelings that my galleries had less variety than I wanted. I felt like I was in a rut. He suggested that to see what a rut really looks like, I only have to look at a few other websites where the models and galleries almost all look the same, as if they had been processed by a cookie cutter.

These "other websites" provided some of the original motivation for the themes behind Torrid Art - a desire to have some variety. Though I would like more, we do have some degree of variety of models, locations, lighting, etc.

We get a lot of variety by one simple idea - allow the models to be themselves. They wear their own clothes, we select makeup and hair styles that agree with the model, and they have a lot of freedom to pose themselves. Additionally, I try to vary the lighting and locations.

Other websites can do what they want. We will do what we want and continue with our own themes.

- RAP

New model - Miko happy endings
103 photos
I know I speak for a lot of men when I say that I love the little black dress, and Miko looks superb in hers.

Miko is energetic and happy, full of youthful zeal. Avoiding the cookie cutter, I wanted her energy to come through in her galleries.

I have to admit that I was reluctant to use this location because of the color of the wall behind Miko. But then our makeup artist convinced me it would be ok. And, as always, she was right. It turned out well and adds some nice color to Torrid Art.

More pictures of Miko:
Model page at Torrid Art

New photo set - Shyla show me
90 photos
I like the location of this gallery. It is colorful, interesting and different. I took advantage of some natural light coming through the windows, and added some light of my own.

But the natural, available light was rather dim, and this gallery was photographed in relatively low light conditions. That's why the photos have a texture, or a "grain" to them. It's not an effect I like for every gallery, but it works well in this gallery with the colors, tones, wood rails and Shyla's clothes, and it adds to the variety on Torrid Art.

More pictures of Shyla:
Newsletter #29 #32
Model page at Torrid Art

Torrid Art - Not the biggest, not the "best on the web"
Torrid Art is a hand-crafted website featuring the work of a single photographer. We are not big. We don't update every day. We don't have the "best on the web" of anything. We just have some really good, original stuff.

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