:lmao: ahhh the internet. Op I'm not trying to step on your toes but if you put something out there(the internet) for the world to see you can't expect to get all graces about your work without specifying your objective. I wouldn't take it too personally if I were you...it's the internet for crying out loud and everything is up for interpretation.
If you don't want negative feedback from your viewers then maybe specify up front that you just want positive feedback(or a pat on the back)...or specificy that you don't want feedback at all and you're just sharing.
I too saw this thread as open ended so I don't blame the others for commenting freely...
CAMZ, I am sorry but I don't see where I am crying about a negative critique, I am responding to a straight up unprovoked attack on my model. Comments that were they made in the work place could easily be found to be sexually harassing and potentially slanderous to boot.
If someone does not like the photo then by all means say you don't like the photo. Then please tell me what you belive is the true flaw in it and offer me a soulution for the problem. I have been at thios long enough to know that not everyone will be a fan of my work and I am ok with it.
If you have a comment that something bugs you about the photos like the one poster who said he had trouble with the images being fully isolated, then I will happily offer an explaination as to my thought process for creating the image in the way I did. However arbitrailly calling the model a Bimbo and implying that she is a Las Vegas Stripper, those are personal attacks not image review. If I am attacked I will respond in kind that is human nature and anyone that expects otherwise needs to reevaluate their expectations of me.
After reviewing many of Cloudwalkers past posts it is obvious that he is the well liked or at least tolerated insult and negative post guy. I am sure he finds himself quite witty but unprovoked insults are not witty they are childish. Allowing a longtime member of the forum to launch attacks without provocation is ultimately damaging to the forums and if it is as habitual as it appears from reading his post history then I would say he is absolutely having a negative impact on this community. Were there less attacks and more open and honest critique around here then perhaps you all would see more of us working Pro's in here willing to share technique, lighting charts and post production methods with the community. But when a film age has been is allowed to attack at will it is not likely you will see the level of sharing on this forum improve anytime soon.
The fact that it is the internet and one can hide behind anonymous screen names does not excuse or forgive people acting like cretins and forgetting basic manners.
I have only been here a short time and in that short time I have been the recipient of several drive by troll attacks that where aimed at me and that is fine but my model is not here to defend herself so you can be damn sure I am going to defend her.
In the short time I have been here I have offered a lot of constructive critiques, several of them that have literally panned the image but at the same time I offered legitimate technical reasons for the comments as well as suggestions for solutions to problems.
Simply coming in and attacking an image because you don't like the personal choice a model has made about her own body is the action of a teenager not a professional photographer. So unless Couldwalker or any of the others who chose insults over critique care to substantiate their assertions with facts they need to step off and shut up. Unless of course they want to apologize to the model. All are entitled to their personbal opinion and like breast implants or not they are a part of todays world.
As far as Cloudwalkers glib insult directed at me well he can insult me all he wants and I could careless. Until he can substantiate insult with fact and proof that he can do better then he is just another faceless troll to me.
It is exactly this kind of un-moderated BS that truly diminishes the value of internet forums today. You will never see me hide behind an anonymous screen name on any forum my name and the name of my company are always right there for all to see and as far as my work goes I will leave it to speak for its self because despite the attacks and insults I know the true quality of my photography and nothing I can say that defends it better then it defends its self to the reasonable viewer.
