Big Bold and Beautiful Bride

[e.rose]

What am I? Chopped liver? :greenpbl:

D'ya really have to ask?

Nooooo... I guess noooot.

 

[joealcantar]

Believe you shot her well, nicely done.
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Shoot well, Joe

 

[Mach0]

Good job !

 

[bennielou]

No, you are definately not chopped liver!

Just to make it clear, I'm in the business of extreme retouching. Big girls want little bodies for their wedding days sometimes, and there is a market for that. I am there to fill that market. They know it's all make believe, but they pay me to do that, so I do that. I'm a bit like a princess fantasy pimp. That's what I do.

 

[bennielou]

If you had not told me they were morphed I wouldn't have noticed. The photograph takes me right to her face. Excellent job

And that is what I hope to accomplish when I do a photo. I don't want to make it look unreal. I want it to be her vision of what she thinks she looks like.

 

[e.rose]

No, you are definately not chopped liver!

Just to make it clear, I'm in the business of extreme retouching. Big girls want little bodies for their wedding days sometimes, and there is a market for that. I am there to fill that market. They know it's all make believe, but they pay me to do that, so I do that. I'm a bit like a princess fantasy pimp. That's what I do.

Yeah, I get that. I was just poking fun at your use of the term "real" bride in reference to "average" to "plus sized" women.

 

[camz]

I'm a bit like a princess fantasy pimp. That's what I do.

:thumbup:

Now that's a nitch!

 

[bennielou]

Exactly! And that's what I think is the sole reason for having a great business when so many great photogs are taking a dive right now. I talk all the time about being different. This is what I mean. The last thing I want to do is be in a big pool of "everyone else". What I do is not popular with photographers at large. But as long as it keeps paying my mortgage, I'm all good. I don't want to be like everyone else.

 

[bennielou]

No, you are definately not chopped liver!

Just to make it clear, I'm in the business of extreme retouching. Big girls want little bodies for their wedding days sometimes, and there is a market for that. I am there to fill that market. They know it's all make believe, but they pay me to do that, so I do that. I'm a bit like a princess fantasy pimp. That's what I do.

Yeah, I get that. I was just poking fun at your use of the term "real" bride in reference to "average" to "plus sized" women.

I'm not sure why that is something to poke fun at. Most women in the US were a size 16. I don't, you don't, but most women do. So why not cater to that person and make a crapload of money?

 

[camz]

I hate to say it as it seems one dimensional...but it is all about the bottomline.

 

[camz]

If you had not told me they were morphed I wouldn't have noticed. The photograph takes me right to her face. Excellent job

And that is what I hope to accomplish when I do a photo. I don't want to make it look unreal. I want it to be her vision of what she thinks she looks like.

So is this the majority of your targeted clientele? I've seen you shoot model type brides before.

 

[bennielou]

If you had not told me they were morphed I wouldn't have noticed. The photograph takes me right to her face. Excellent job

And that is what I hope to accomplish when I do a photo. I don't want to make it look unreal. I want it to be her vision of what she thinks she looks like.

So is this the majority of your targeted clientele? I've seen you shoot model type brides before.

Hi Camz,
Yes, I shoot all kind of differnt folks. Some people want more fantasy. Some people want less. They are somehow comforted in the fact that I know how to do both. This is what has kept us alive when I saw most of my friends go under. They were great people. Don't get me wrong. They just had a certain price point which was huge, or they didn't want to deal with the weekend warriors anyore. They shouldn't have had to deal with them becuase I don't. You wanna be skinny? You pay.

 

[camz]

And that is what I hope to accomplish when I do a photo. I don't want to make it look unreal. I want it to be her vision of what she thinks she looks like.

So is this the majority of your targeted clientele? I've seen you shoot model type brides before.

Hi Camz,
Yes, I shoot all kind of differnt folks. Some people want more fantasy. Some people want less. They are somehow comforted in the fact that I know how to do both. This is what has kept us alive when I saw most of my friends go under. They were great people. Don't get me wrong. They just had a certain price point which was huge, or they didn't want to deal with the weekend warriors anyore. They shouldn't have had to deal with them becuase I don't. You wanna be skinny? You pay.

While I don't agree with that approach, I defintely appreciate your business sense and your nitch.

 

[e.rose]

No, you are definately not chopped liver!

Just to make it clear, I'm in the business of extreme retouching. Big girls want little bodies for their wedding days sometimes, and there is a market for that. I am there to fill that market. They know it's all make believe, but they pay me to do that, so I do that. I'm a bit like a princess fantasy pimp. That's what I do.

Yeah, I get that. I was just poking fun at your use of the term "real" bride in reference to "average" to "plus sized" women.

I'm not sure why that is something to poke fun at. Most women in the US were a size 16. I don't, you don't, but most women do. So why not cater to that person and make a crapload of money?

You're missing the point.

I'm not talking about your catering to that person... I was simply poking fun at the language you were using implying that anyone *not* that size wasn't a real woman.

You kept talking about size 16 brides and using the terms "real woman", "real bride", "real this and that"... as if anyone below that size isn't "real". :greenpbl:

I was playing around with your words... not your business model.

I get what you're doing, I respect what you're doing, and you're smart for doing it. I have no qualms with that... you don't have to get so defensive.

I'm not attacking your work or your clientele, so chillax. :hug::

 

[Derrel]

Skinny girls have feelings too...which is something I am getting from e.rose86'sd posts...how big people are depends in some part on where they are...the American south is filled with obese people...I went to the midwest once and was AMAZED at the heft and girth of the girls, the young women, and the mature women--I never really understood the references to, "Corn-fed midwestern gal" until I went to the midwest and saw it with my own eyes...currently, I am living near a community where the "average" woman of 30-45 is physically fit, exercises regularly, and likely as not, has a fitness club membership and or a personal trainer....the "moms" at school are definitely not the "real" women that bennielou speaks of, but are skinny, spandex-wearing, yuppie, MILF-y types, to the extreme.