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i feel i have been butchered
Criss wrote: hell yea! Apr 08 08 05:28 pm Link MMDesign wrote: are you kidding? seriously? Apr 08 08 05:32 pm Link Keep abreast of the quality of work next time BEFORE you accept an assignment? Sorry, couldn't resist... if it helps any, i'm a natural 36DD and my boobs have their own sense of gravity too  Apr 08 08 05:39 pm Link also, after looking at your port and your actual figure, you are much fuller figured than this pic implies. Not sure why he couldn't have embraced your curves, after all, he knew you were fuller figured when he hired you. Plus, toning down your belly with photoshop but leaving other parts unphotoshopped makes you look disproportionate (he gave you a very teeny midsection but left you with fuller figured thighs/hips... just doesn't look natural). He would have been doing well to leave it alone... but, take the money and run, and next time ask for samples or do TFP and ask for shared rights on the release. Apr 08 08 05:46 pm Link This is all nonsense . . . Just be glad that the photographer didn't photoshop on male genitalia to your photo and sell it as an ad for an adult Transexual Phoneline service on the back pages of Hustler magazine. It's happened to many models that were unhappy but could do nothing about it KM Apr 08 08 05:50 pm Link Is this for real? I don't intend to be mean but seriously can you imagine doing a shoot seeing the shot in an ad and then requesting the client not to use it? It's not gonna happen. A paid shoot is a paid shoot. Apr 08 08 05:57 pm Link You were hired to model, not to critique another's work. You have no control over what a photogapher/artists does with the images if you care that much you should not model. Apr 08 08 06:25 pm Link Ok... I may be wrong... but didn't the same OP have this exact same issue a while back? Apr 08 08 06:27 pm Link Kelsey Marie wrote: What did the model release say? Did you agree to any kind of post-processing? Was there a veto clause? Apr 08 08 06:31 pm Link Kelsey Marie wrote: I feel the same way when models butcher my work as well. Apr 08 08 06:37 pm Link Christopher Ambler wrote: My thoughts are she's AOL, and I ain't talkin' 'bout an internet service provider. Also SOL. Apr 08 08 06:39 pm Link More free advice (which is usually worth exactly what you paid for it). I think that this is important because it is what you are looking at right now and that after several more shoots and dozens of pictures that you do like, it will become less and less bothersome. (It's kind of like a bad haircut.) I would guess that the photographer would understand that you would not want this linked to your site in case it might mislead other photographers as to what you look like. And as far as those freckles go - I love them. If i had anything to say on the subject, you would be out in the sun naked until you had them head to toe. So, there. Apr 08 08 06:46 pm Link You want to be a model...suck it up and move on...you need to have your picture taken with stupid hairdo's, crazy clothes, silly faces, all because we as photographers or creative directors think it looks good... Apr 08 08 06:49 pm Link OneSolo wrote: Completely agree. 100%. Besides, nobody would've noticed the picture if you hadn't drawn so much attention to it! Best to just moan about it to your friends/livejournal and move on. This public "OMG LOOK AT THIS" detracts from you MORE than that shot does. Apr 08 08 07:06 pm Link How is this thread still alive? How many times can we come in and repeat the exact same handful of responses? The OP came in and thanked everyone for the advice she was given and hasn't returned yet. Apr 08 08 07:17 pm Link That is a horrible picture, and a terrible photoshop job. He should have shown you in all your glory, and not tried to photoshop your waist...he obviously doesn't know how to use the program at all. Since you were paid, you really don't have any right to ask him to pull it down...though you can ask to detach your name from it. Good luck! Apr 08 08 07:45 pm Link Re-read your release and see if anything mentions the use of your name. You most likely signed to release the use of the IMAGES to him, not the use of your NAME. Apr 11 08 03:25 pm Link Kelsey Marie wrote: you don't. you got paid. shhhhhhhh Apr 11 08 03:27 pm Link Living in the public eye is a great thing, huh! There's not a celebrity in the world who wouldn't like total control over what images appear of them in the press, and how their images and likeness is used when they sell themselves for advertising. But even the biggest most powerful celebs fail to control everything, and if you're a "D-lister" or worse, forgettaboutit! You have two choices -- stop selling the rights to use your image, or learn to roll with the punches a little. Modeling is no place for a control freak, unless you're somebody like Tyra Banks, and even then. . . Paul Apr 11 08 03:48 pm Link Don't sweat it, that pic isn't going anywhere where anyone that can make or break you will see it. Apr 11 08 04:00 pm Link It happens. It's not the end of the world. All you can do is refrain from posting them in your port. S/he can do whatever s/he like with them. That's how is works. You could also not work with that photographer again. Apr 11 08 04:03 pm Link Believe it or not, that one shitty photo somewhere on the internet won't affect you much if you stop looking at it. Seriously, I know that feeling, we've all been there, but very few, if any, photographers will think you're horrible b/c of one bad image. What matters is what's in your portfolio and prove you shine when you work w/ right people. Apr 11 08 04:31 pm Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: Many releases do state that the photos may not be used in a defamatory manner. Apr 11 08 04:42 pm Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: heehee Apr 11 08 04:45 pm Link Lora Craft wrote: winner winner winner Apr 11 08 04:51 pm Link Well I looked at the picture and see nothing wrong with it. Your a beautiful woman. Apr 11 08 04:57 pm Link Catriona wrote: Yeah I'm quite confused as well... if there was a photo of me I hated you can be sure I wouldn't be linking it anywhere, let alone start a thread to link it Apr 11 08 05:01 pm Link I had a model ask me to re-edit a photo of hers (I took it in a different direction than she wanted and it was TFCD). I did it, as I didn't pay her. I'm open to suggestions like that, though. That story told, I see two logical options. 1. Let it go. 2. Ask for a second version of the photo (and be prepared to pay for his time). Apr 11 08 05:05 pm Link so what's the precendent here... every time a model doesn't like a picutr a photogrpaher should take it down? Evry time a MUA doesn't like how a photgrapher used photoshop, take down the picture? I'm sure this happens more frequently than just notrd.... Though the person who has a problem with the shot simply should not use it in his or her own port, and if they really don't like the work, just never work with that photographer or conversely model or mua again.... So other than a very polite stating that you don't think that his or her image best represents you, that's all you really can do.... Ironically, aside from the boob, I've seen models gush over how wonderful some pics are of them when the photographer has over idealized what they look like...some models seem to like pictures that don't look like themselves... Apr 11 08 05:15 pm Link Wednesday Harrington wrote: Apr 11 08 05:17 pm Link Kelsey Marie wrote: That was a real butcher job! Apr 11 08 05:24 pm Link Yep. I feel you have been butchered too. Apr 11 08 05:27 pm Link Kyle Marquette Photo wrote: And if he says "no", what then? Apr 11 08 05:30 pm Link rp_photo wrote: oh my... Apr 11 08 05:33 pm Link If a model asks you for a reference, that would be your chance to let them know how you feel. It is also a lesson to check references to see what other models think of a photographer's work before you accept a shoot. Beyond that, its a risk you take by accepting payment and signing a release, just like any other job. Lots of businesses require their employees to wear ugly, unflattering uniforms, for example. If you'd rather wear the latest fashions from Paris, well, there's the door. I do agree that the retouching looks gawd-awful but so be it. Apr 11 08 06:33 pm Link tMu designs wrote: Well, there's an unsolicted critique if I ever saw one. Apr 11 08 07:15 pm Link I saw that pic in the guy's portfolio. Got there by following the link in your portfolio. I was gonna ask you how you got your boob to do that. Pretty good trick! Apr 15 08 04:54 pm Link Wednesday Harrington wrote: At 101 years old, you should expect some of that. Apr 15 08 04:57 pm Link That's the risk you run being a model. Not everything you produce is going to make you happy. Apr 15 08 05:02 pm Link Feral Oneiric wrote: That's the bad part of any form of employment. Sometimes in order to get that paycheck, you'll have to do thinks you don't love. Apr 15 08 05:04 pm Link |
