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If you are not a photographer, we are not necessarily *interested* in your comments, no matter how insightful, because your point of view is not the one the site is trying to promote.
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From your post it sounds like you're saying that only photographers can offer critiques of photos. That seems to exclude a major portion of the members of the site, namely the models and the MUA. Don't they have a right to critique photos? Will they have any photos to post along with their critique that proves they are a good photographer? In most cases not.
But the idea that this site is only for photographers is just plain silly. There are tons of models that are members of this site and they are an extremely important part of the site and the whole business of glamour photography.
Many times a model can offer a better critique than can a photographer. Why? Because they see thousands of photos and have to choose those that best represent them, so they have lots of experience in judging photos.
But the whole idea of only photographers critiquing photographers and having to prove they are photographers is suspect. No other art requires that. Major film critics for the most part have never made a movie. Major writing critics for the most part have never written a book. And so on.
In fact the editors that work at many magazines and decide which photos will be used in their magazines have are usually not photographers and have not been photographers. Yet they do a great job of picking the best photos.
Cheers,
rfs