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Originally Posted by ARTFORMS
Then it would be your fault that the girl you shot has a bad complexion and my fault that the woman I shot is fat. On the other side of this thinking, it is a photographers credit and praise for the model that he or she shot, is 5 foot 8 inches tall, 120 pounds and absolutely georgeous and without a single flaw. If this is how people cast blame or give credit towards things that are not in their control, I better make sure that I only shoot with top notch models, because I know the moment that a fat woman gets posted on an image that there will be remarks on her appearance rather than the quality or lack of it in the actual photograph.
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It is impossible, of course, for any photographer to control the actual physical attributes of our subjects. What we can control is how they appear in our shots.
Here is a shot of Quincy from another thread that you started. Your responses to the comments there are what triggered my comment here.
And here is part of the the first comment:
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Gorgeous lady but I don't like the way her breasts seem so totally different from one another. Her left breast looks huge while the right one looks much smaller. Maybe its the way the top fits
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The commenter did not accuse her of actually being freakishly deformed or ugly, just that the shot in questioned made some things have an unfortunate appearance, possibly due to wardrobe issues. You replied with:
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Originally Posted by ARTFORMS
I can neither take credit or blame for her boobs or her tattoo. Those things are just anotomy and her personal taste on appearance. All I can do as a photographer is make sure the lighting works, help with the pose, check to see if her makeup is decent, shoot the image and process the picture for print and internet use. It might be that her top was slipping on one side to make one look bigger than the other.
Thanks,
Jim
I try not to critique a photograph based on the size of the model or her choices in asthetics, unless it's just a bad makeup application.
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Well, why didn't you help with the pose? Why didn't you stop to ask her if it was slipping? Why didn't you stop to consider that the combination of that model's build and enhancements might not work for every pose with that outfit? You were the one looking through the viewfinder at the time. No one was criticizing the photograph based on the size of the model or her aesthetic choices. They were criticizing the photograph based on the generally perceived role of the photographer, who is supposed to make sure that the pose and the angles and the lighting make everything look at least as good as they really are, if not better, not worse. The shot that unintentionally proves it is in another post in this thread:
Same model, same outfit, same aesthetic choices on her part, but everything looks balanced and even. What's different besides the pose? Oh, the photographer.