Ann, from my experience taking photos of people, overweight folks are happy to see photos of themselves. Many -- though not all -- heavy people are completely accepting of their shape and like to see themselves in pictures as much as anyone else does.
I don't see this photo as mean spirited at all. I just see a slice of life as viewed in Marco's well honed and strongly defined style. I don't even see any attempt to mock anyone in the image. I will readily admit to a thin bias. I am uncomfortable taking photos of overweight people because I like to flatter my subjects and by assuming that they would rather look lighter I have a tendency to attempt to thin-ize larger folks by cropping, half hiding them behind thinner people, using shadows, posing them in profile, and all the other portrait photographer's tricks. On the other hand there's the desire to portray the truth in street photos, so I suffer an internal conflict in those situations. On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 3:01 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes - I doubt that sadly overweight young woman would enjoy seeing this.. > > I've taken this kind of shot in the past, I'll admit.. but now I find it > difficult to look at... rather like facebook shaming.. > > ann > > > On 11/27/2016 2:53 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: >> >> Mean? >> >> m >> >>> On Nov 26, 2016, at 5:03 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Now that's just mean.. >>> >>> ann >>> >>> >>> On 11/26/2016 4:47 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso34.html >>>> >>>> Comments, as always, welcomed. >>>> >>>> -Marco >>>> >>>> --------------- >>>> http://www.alpert.com/marco >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
