ColleenOReilly.com: Pictures I would like to shoot (Content)

So many photographers lately have been asking me what kinds of pictures I would like to shoot.

My content ideas fall into several categories:

Pin-up:I adore all kinds of pin-ups, classic and modern. I spend a bit of time trying to copy my own pin-up idols and to create new and different kinds of pin-up inspired images. I really love the pictures where the girl is caught in an accidentally revealing pose, as in many Gil Elvgren paintings (see below).

Mild Fetish: The following is a list of some ideas I have recently been kicking around for fetish shoots. It is by no means a complete list of every kind of fetish image I want to make, just a few ideas.

What I am going for is sort of light fetish-y stiff, the kind of thing many men wish their wives would do for them but the wives won't.

*So I would like to be shown tied or tyiing someone with scarves and satin-y looking drapery cords, or maybe belts or other things you would have in your house, rather than serious bondage-gear.

*Foot-worship scenes in the bathroom, where I am sitting on the closed toilet or maybe the counter and he is giving me a pedicure. That one would be even better if there was a mirror behind me.

*Maybe I am making him put on some panties, stockings, or lipstick out of my dresser drawer.

* Maybe he is tied in a door frame in the kitchen, standing but with his arms above his head, and I am wearing only a tiny apron and popping him on the rear with a wooden spoon, pinching his nipples with bacon tongs, teasing him with ice out of the freezer, etc.

*Food play is easy and fun. Whipped cream, pudding, jello--fun to play with, fun to taste! Food comes in so many pretty colors.
Besides doing special fetish-themed sets, I also try to incorporate shoes, boots, stockings, panty hose, bare feet, satiny or silk lingerie, or role-play costumes into almost every set.

Glamour Boudoir: Extremely glamorous and sexy boudoir pictures, like you might find in Playboy

Location Sets: Outdoors, Beaches, Parks, Mechanic's shops, Doctor's offices .... Anyplace that suggests a theme for some pictures.

Posing with old, hot cars: Enough said! Same for bikes, tractors, trucks--A sexy woman and a hot machine--what more would you want?

Playing with Light, Shadow, Color, Poses, etc.: Recently I did an entire set where I was posing as if I was a ballet dancer. I have posed for black-and-white body scapes, mirror images, silhouettes, images shot through doors and other voyeuristic angles, and more. I love the way you can manipulate what the viewer sees and doesn't see with the use of light, shadows, props, poses, colors, etc. This is one of the most fascinating aspects of photography to me.

Lifestyle Sequences: These are something I have not done much of, but would like to try to do more. The idea of this is that I start out in the first picture doing something perfectly normal, for example making breakfast or grocery shopping, and by the last picture, I am naked and about to be naughty. A fun take on this would be the absolutely absurd sequences Bettie Page posed for in the mens magazines like Wink in the 1950's.

Military: Being a former Army chick myself, I like to give a nod to my bro's still on duty. I have some of my old gear, and I want to bring in more.

I also would like to mix things up a little, with things like pin-up bondage, glamour boudoir settings that involve slightly messy food,using interesting filters, shooting form long, voyeuristiccamera angles, getting my pin-up and role-play costumes wet, and so on.

My ever-expanding inspiration picture file is posted here. Of course, not all my ideas have already been done by someone else, so here is an extremely partial and by no means complete list of the types of things I would like to do:

Pin-up Style: Classic and modern