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Originally Posted by emi♡
Yeah, honestly, I dont know why people try to blame photographers and crap...even when they have their distinct styles.
She's the one sitting there posing, screwing up the picture  |
Having worked in this particular field, the photographer can be the one to even screw up the model's expression. The model generally just does what the photographer or even the art director tells them to do. I'll be the first to admit that I and the photographer that I used to work for have made a model accidently look awful. However, the photographs are deleted pretty quickly so the art director or client can't say it's perfect and that's the shot they want.
However in defense of Leslie, he may have taken better shots but possibly didn't like some of the shots that were chosen but Ayu did and when it's a case like this you have to be very careful with what you say so you don't lose that nice paycheck that comes your way.
As for the photoshopping, depending on how big the studio the photographer owns or works for is to determine who does the photoshopping. Some photographers will do the editing themselves (Which if this case it's Leslie...I will refrain from commenting as a fellow photographer) or they have interns or people specifically hired to do the editing which if that's the case they need to have a talking to and re-taught to if that doesn't work they need to be let go.
I've also seen and experienced where a client will just want the pictures taken and they already have someone to edit the photographs. Which is something I absolutely hate because it comes back mostly as a reflection of your work when the untouched image may look better than the final product that they put out.
I'm not trying to excuse either Leslie or Ayu but it really falls into a huge grey area that until we have first hand experience inside one of their shoots we can't fully blame either one or just keep shifting blame. Sorry about my rambling. I fully respect everyones opinion positive and negative but I just wanted to give a little insight to how things a lot of the time work in this field as I've experienced it first hand.
I kinda wish that Leslie and Ayu could see some of the constructive negative comments and learn from them. I've always like getting feed back, both positive and especially negative (as long as it doesn't go to the point of being rude because there is a polite way of writing negative comments) because I think it makes you a better artist. I will say that I have seen some amazing photoshop skills on this forum and if my money comes through to open my own studio there are definitely some people I would hire in a heartbeat.