...no sense in criticizing what I've already come to realize myself, Cristel, by which I mean, no offence was taken. I have a portfolio full of young women; the only male in it is my 'attractive' brother.(posted 8602 days ago)It is something which has always bothered me. I seem to 'do' photography as a means of escape; yet when I look at others' photos, I am not at all drawn in by 'beauty' in the narrow sense (of young, beautiful women), but rather by photographers who shoot "real" people. Maybe I'm incapable of being a photographer of "real" people; honestly, I just don't know. One thing I DO KNOW, is that others are impressed by pictures of beautiful women, and the amount of alcohol I've occasionally had to consume in order to do the shoot in the first place leads me to belive, in the past, I've often been more concerned with what others think/may think, than what is actually what I myself what in a photograph.
As a side note, most of the women I've photographed, when people see them in real life, they often say "she looks a lot better in your pictures", a horrible thing to say, of course; but maybe I see beauty differently, and yet channel this vision through a pair of eyes which hopes to have some who look at my photos seeing the beauty I saw in the first place, which they may not have otherwise seen.