pro vs amateur photos

I like drooling over the professional photos...and would love some for myself, but it seems every photographer I've used, doesn't seem to get the angles I like or decent photos of me...so I end up taking my own.

Tia, you should try my lady in Arkansas next time you're there.

I like them both but I had over editing, I only edit the tatts out, but make people very aware on my site. To each their own! Originally Posted by alecia

OMG i just went back and read this, I meant "I hate over editing" LOL

Good thread

Can you take some photos of me......my photo-man SUCKS...lmao!!

I am usually suspect of the professional ones, since there is so much touch up done that it can mean a poor representation.

Babydoll, I will gladly take some pics for you!

Josh

Josh it an inside joke with the OP!!

He is a great photographer and soooo easy to work with, exceptionally with someone that has no ideas and is clueless to photos as i am!

He did no photoshop except his signature, upon my request!

I have sooo many more photos that i still haven't put up that he has taken and they were all great in my eyes!

Thank you OP

but i do have some in my showcase that i have took just to show thats really me!

Some random thoughts on pics...
1. All pics tell me something that helps me to choose.
2. On BP, phone pics are less likely to be B&S.
3. I'd like to see pics of all the yummy parts (butt, breasts, belly, hair, face), but I certainly understand the need for discretion and privacy
4. Pro pics usually are sexier and make me lust a little more, but I also understand the "touch-up factor", and take that into consideration.
5. I really appreciate creativity in pics. I saw a pro pic of a lady in wearing a hot little apron thing in a kitchen setting. It really caught my eye and stood out in my memory. Another lady took her phone pic, not in the bathroom, but in front of a crazy curvy mirror in the living room with a view of the open bedroom door in the background. She was facing away as if leading me to the boudoir. I'd love to have that pic as my avatar one of these days.
6. If there's something you aren't showing me, I might think it's something you don't want me to see (saggy tush, stretch marks, etc).
7. If you take phone pics in the bathroom, clean it up first. Don't show me your toothpaste, deodorant, extra TP, used washcloth, make up, tissues, or (PLEASE) box of tampons, or water-spotted mirror.
8. Most important (to me anyway) I don't want to see any part of any other dude in the pic. Let me have my fantasy that I'm the only man in your life

I'm sure I'll think of some more later, but these are what popped immediately into my limited mind.

~~CR~~

Professional photos make a sexy lady even sexier, but in the back of my mind I always wonder if that's what the provider will look like when I visit.

I'm more interested by a recent, candid photo from a provider. Every one has a different fantasy and mine isn't to be with a supermodel, I just want a really great lady who likes to have a good time.

I think you get some indication of a providers attitude from a photo: I'm more interested in providers with a great smile and who look like they genuinely enjoy what they do. Maybe I'm reading more into the photo than what's actually there.

I haven't seen BJ yet but she looks like the kind of lady who you can have a great time with and really enjoys what she does.

I like the non pro ones that are done right and show what we want to see



I like Jules non pro pics and also Berkleigh's phone pics

Anyone who knows me will attest to my love of properly lit and composed shots. That being said I'll voice my main gripe with phone type shots.

1) turn on some lights. those things can barely comprehend real contrast, half the phone shots I've seen are so dark and grainy I can barely make anything out.

2) get a kleenex and wipe off the lens. I know you've been handling your phone all day, but you've left massive smudges and fingerprints on the lens of your camera and now every thing in your shot is foggy and has a halo. Just a quick swipe and it'll be all better.

And now for my personal plug, I did shoot everything in my avatar and I have more.

[QUOTE=babydollsnow;972167]
He did no photoshop except his signature, upon my request!

BDS, I did almost no editing other than cropping, resizing so they fit sites parameters. I took a smudge off your arm in one shot that you got on the tracks.

What I have learned from this, is you guys don't trust photographers! I understand the perspective. So from now on I will do a provider mug shot with all my models. weight, height and three measurements taken on film. How about that! And we could have them hold a copy of McPaper for validation of how recently they were taken.

OK seriously, some shots just can't be grabbed with a phone. These two for instance took a bit of set up. There was bribing the gun expert (OK he worked cheap for just a lunch burger) and jumping on the tracks in between trains was scary! Oh I said I was gonna be serious, didn't I. For good images one needs good lighting and a decent lens to gather enough light is critical. Phones have a lens a couple of milimeters across. Real cameras have very large lenses to gather light and provide a sharp image. Admitting that some amateurs are better artists than some pros, good pictures need two things. A good subject and someone pointing the camera that has an eye for composition.

So as a photographer I will continue to strive to take shots that capture the beauty that a woman has, without glitzing it up or modifying the images. If I do my work right, you will not know I was there at all. You will just look at the woman. Thank you all for the input.

Most ladies like a variety since, as per the responses, WALDT. Ladies, everyone for that matter, should try a variety of styles until the find what works. I've only shot a few of the ladies here but when it "clicks" it's great! It's very rewarding when people comment positively on the photos and also say in reviews that they are either accurate, or don't do the lady justice.

One exception to the commonly held rule about over processing, is the fantasy composition. I did a painter version of one of Lindsey Lacey's shots, including wings even. When I posted it in the "Relm" her phone rang off the hook! So either keep it real, or really go overboard so nobody suspects you are hiding something.

Not wanting to hijack the most civil thread on photography I've seen here for a while. I will add my vote for more Black and White! When its done right, I just love. it!

I like the composition with the rail above, but it looks like the young lady is going to shoot low and to the right, those white knuckles are a dead give away for too tight a grip (something I'm often guilty of at the range, in every other aspect of life I think I need to tighten my grip).

I don't have a preference for professional or amateur shots, as long as the pictures an accurate representation of the provider. Originally Posted by michaeljohnson1970

Couldn't agree more! There's nothing much worse than inaccurate or outdated pics. It is false advertising, IMO.

I use both .....

I think a girls pictures say a lot about her. It takes a lot of time, energy, and money to take good, accurate, and pretty pro pics. I find the more you give, the more you get.