Do you collect Ayu's pictures?

[Hoshi no Suna]

Or any other artists'?

I used to have so many photos of Ayu, with the release date, magazine/book page, name etc, but now I just save the ones I really like, and only if I can't get the original.

What about you guys?

[neuteka]

Yeah, I like to save pictures of her that I really like online, and also do that with just anonymous pictures as well. I also like to buy magazines that have an awesome ayu pic on the cover.

[pommy48]

I used to collect all of her pictures, but I deleted them all and I only collect Ayu graphics now~

alan is the only artist that I collect pictures of ~

[emi♡]

I used to collect every single picture of Ayu I saw lol

I've since stopped...there's just too many! So I only get my favorite ones.

I'm still pretty certain I've seen like, nearly every photo of her in existence though. I know there's a few others here who are absolutely certain they have ;P

[hearted]

only the pretty ones

I used to do that with like Xtina way back when. With like magazines and stickers, etc. I don't do it with anyone now though.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

nope, just photobooks and things she releases.

[aisubeki]

I have a TON of ayu pictures saved to my computer (screenshots, magazine scans, etc.), but as far as physically owning some of her, not until recently. I LOVE her November ViVi shoot

[love in music]

yeah, I collect them. even if I don't like some Magazine shoots, I still collect them just because I have all the others and wouldn't want to leave some out. I'm a huge ayu collector lol. I like to have ~everything~

[Kingdom]

No, that's too obsessive for me.

[PoetGirl]

no, I only collect music

[Chibi-Chan]

No, I gave up on this... XD

[Kazeyomi]

I used to collect every pics of her.
Until my external hard disk drive's explosion :| I was so shocked and sad to have lost EVERYTHING. So, I save just my favourite pics and magazines scans now. Pics that I use for graphic purpose lol. Also, I lost a couple of rare pics and I don't know where I founded them ;_;.

[LastAngel]

Yeahhh. I have a bunch saved up on my computer.
I also collect alan, GACKT, and HYDE pics.

[channy]

I do collect some Ayu pictures. I liked the photos from Paris and London a lot. As well as her visits to Asia (Shanghai photos of 2007 were superb!) etc.

But I can't stand magazine photoshots and I will never understand why so many people on this forum are liking them. They are so fake and awfully photoshopped, absolutely different from what we have seen recently of hers, when AHS members met her in UK.

I am an Ayu picutres collector, but please no photoshop-cr4p.

But well, some of the studio-photoshop-ewwww-pictures I like, though (I wanna be honest, so...). For example I still love the A BEST 2 photos and covers a lot. Thats why I love the L covers so much, they look a lot like A BEST 2, especially the facial expression, eyes etc.

But generally I only collect "live-pictures" that are not made in a studio with lightning and software.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by ShiSeido

I do collect some Ayu pictures. I liked the photos from Paris and London a lot. As well as her visits to Asia (Shanghai photos of 2007 were superb!) etc.

But I can't stand magazine photoshots and I will never understand why so many people on this forum are liking them. They are so fake and awfully photoshopped, absolutely different from what we have seen recently of hers, when AHS members met her in UK.

I am an Ayu picutres collector, but please no photoshop-cr4p.

But well, some of the studio-photoshop-ewwww-pictures I like, though (I wanna be honest, so...). For example I still love the A BEST 2 photos and covers a lot. Thats why I love the L covers so much, they look a lot like A BEST 2, especially the facial expression, eyes etc.

But generally I only collect "live-pictures" that are not made in a studio with lightning and software.

but.. if you don't like her looking fake why would you like the A BEST 2 covers? lol. that's like one of her most plastic-y shoots and she hardly looks like ayu.. and the eyes are totally digitally enhanced to look even huger.

it depends on the shoot really. we're just going to have to accept that photoshop isn't going anywhere. 99% of the time they are not going to put unphotoshopped pictures into magazines. but, we don't have to accept that something is WAY overphotoshopped to the point where she doesn't look like herself. for example, I love love love these pics from shoots because even though there's photoshop, they're still very ayu.
http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayum...cnxiu.jpg.html
http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayum...34/02.jpg.html
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7...t201011002.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5765/035uw.jpg

but I will not ever like or appreciate anything that looks like this:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1...201002004o.jpg
where they obviously spent time trying to make her look like a different person, and it looks like they cut and pasted her face onto the body from a different picture.

[relmy]

I have the album booklets and photobooks. I would no way save every single photo when I can get them online. I've started buying her magazines as they come out (if I like the shoot) so there's no reason for me to be saving them. =)

^ Don't care if she looks "fake" or whatever (and that's after seeing her with my own eyes), I love pretty clothes and hair and I love seeing her look all glamourous! There are some hideous photoshoots though that I really don't get haha. But I like magazines for what she wears, sometimes they have cool concepts, and whether she looks natural or not becomes irrelevent.

[Hoshi no Suna]

^I actually like that picture, she looks different, but pretty.
I loved the British theme too.

[Larien]

I only save those that I like, really. But I do have them more or less organized into folders (i.e. from magazines/pamphlets, pvs, advertisements, lives, etc.), but the names of the individual files are not as organized as I would like.

[JackieRos]

I usually put them on my desktop but in a few minutes to the trash they go
I only use the pics for a set, save my sets and throw away the original pics