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As an unsightly, geeky child who boasted sticky-out buck enamel and a full moustache on the ripe previous age of seven, I’ve all the time identified that persons are value greater than their appearances would possibly recommend. “It’s not what you look like, it’s what you are”, my mom used to inform me, and although my seven-year-old tormentors did not appear to imagine this, it is an adage I’ve carried with me all through my life.
Until, that’s, I turned a photographer. Of course I do not suppose ugly persons are much less value my whereas than stunning individuals – actually, the reverse can typically be true, particularly when ‘fairly privilege’ means the gorgeous coast via life and do not develop their personalities in consequence. But I am unable to deny that, as a snapper, I want working with photogenic purchasers – and that after I get a really bodily unattractive consumer, my coronary heart sinks a bit of.
It is, sadly, a lot simpler to take photographs of engaging individuals. As my teenage daughter would possibly say, “Well, duh!” however that is for a lot of causes, and never all the time the plain.
Firstly, aesthetically pleasing purchasers have a tendency to not panic about photograph shoots, as a result of they’ve continually been instructed how scorching they’re. So they have an inclination to not lament their look, frantically reapply their make-up, repeatedly test their reflection, ask for reassurance or continually ask to see the photographs on the digital camera display. This saves a number of time.
Secondly, they’re extra more likely to know learn how to pose. Maybe it is self-assurance, perhaps it is follow from taking limitless selfies for Instagram, but they don’t look as awkward in front of the lens as their less physically blessed counterparts.
Thirdly, they’re far easier to take good photos of (of course), quicker to retouch, and more fun to edit. If you have to spend hours looking at someone, it might as well be someone worth looking at. Nature is cruel, and people with big eyes, clear skin and symmetrical features are always going to be more pleasurable to stare at as a photographer.
However, there doesn’t seem to be any rule that says attractive people are easier to work with or won’t request a million photo edits.
I had a terrible experience with a perfectly nice-looking client who demanded five rounds of pointless and vague edits such as “Make me look natural but also glam” and “Adjust my eyelids” (with no further directions). At this point, I put my foot down and refused to do any more work, rather than bellow, “What do you mean, woman, adjust your eyelids HOW?!” They then apologised for the numerous edit requests, and said, “I thought it was all included in the price”. I’m not sure how to price up ‘endless frustration’…
What about the effect of AI, and the effect on you?
But, aside from the shoots and retouching being easier with attractive clients, photography and AI photography apps seem to have had a detrimental effect on my brain.
These days, when I look at someone, I mentally work out how I’d retouch them – ‘Oh, I’d use the healing brush on that mole’, ‘I’d make their nose smaller’, ‘I’d whiten their brown teeth’, etc.
To be fair, I also do this to myself, focusing on the acne scars on my chin, wrinkles on my forehead, and the trilogy of moles on my left cheek.
So I do worry that being a photographer has made me focus more on people’s beauty (or the lack of it), because my USP as a shooter is making people look better in portraits – and you can only do that if you work out how to fix what’s ‘wrong’ with their appearance.
I have to keep reminding myself: “It’s not what you look like, it’s what you are.”
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