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Journal Entry: Mon Jul 2, 2007, 2:04 PM
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Since a few people have inquired, I want to be clear that my photos are NOT to be downloaded, shared, distributed or altered in any way by anyone except for me. I'm the only person that owns the Copyright. Please do not use my photos for anything but personal use. If you wish to use something as a photo reference, that's fine, but it must be different enough from the original photo as not to violate my Copyright.

If I find anyone that's sharing my photos elsewhere I will be very, very unhappy. And then the lawyers shall come. And no one wants that.

Otherwise, thanks for all the support, everyone! I can't believe I'm over 10,000 hits - that's some crazy stuff.

Just thought I'd share this

Journal Entry: Mon Mar 19, 2007, 3:37 AM
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"you are asking something very contradictory. You shoot yourself naked in a vulgar way that shows nothing but flesh and breasts with a very sexual pose, all of it in fetish portrait section. However you ask for something else. What do you expect from comments ? Looking for beauty in the picture itself ? It seems that you don't pay attention to any detail. What about light ? Hue ? Do you want this to be so yellow ? You have a unique body (in a good way, don't miss my point) but you are definitely not trying to magnify it. Or if you thing you are, then you should stop sending new deviations for a while, and look at some basic nude photography concepts, in order to understand what makes a picture beautiful and what makes another vulgar/sexual."

From "sliverqueen".


My response:

"Wow. Okay. So because I'm an amateur, and happen to have a crappy camera that I try to make due with as best as possible, that means I'm vulgar? Excuse me? No one has EVER described my photography that way before. And, how rude of you to say so. All that it's ever been described as is "Pin-up like", which for all intents and purposes, is far from the definition of "vulgar" as possible.

Don't tell me to stop sending new deviations because I "think" they're good. Who are you to tell me what to do on here?

I can be contradictory as much as I like to. Just because I have a particular style, and one that I'm trying to get better at, doesn't mean that I'm going to all of a sudden turn around and try to be all "artsy" and dark and brooding, just to be taken seriously. I try to bring a colorful, fun, spontaneous, pin-up like quality to my photography, and yes, sometimes that means not paying attention to detail. I take a lot of stuff on the fly. That doesn't mean that it still doesn't have artistic merit, or should be objectified.

And I have looked at many, many pieces of nude photography. I took photography class for two years in high school, and a graphic design class for two years, and went to college for graphic design. I know what's out there, and how to emulate it if I want to. But I choose not to - because I'm trying to have my own style.

Just because I have big breasts doesn't make me vulgar. It's not like I'm bending over, spreading myself for the world to see. In fact, in most of my shots, I'm nearly all the way clothed and at most show cleavage. There are not many breast shots that I share. So just because this one features my breasts, does not mean that I think I deserve for people to say shit to me like, "Nice tits". And if you think that it does, than you're a misogynistic prig (which you probably already are considering the tone of your response to this post) that has no right to criticize anyone for their choices, be it sexual or artistic."


Does this explain my stance on wanting to not have sexual comments made towards me clearly enough to the rest of you that may not understand it?

Seriously, I didn't want to be a bitch about it, but I just wanted to be 100% clear with everyone. I am not on DA to pick anyone up or anything like that. I'm here because I am, in essence, a fuck-me feminist. I love my body, I love sharing it, and I love being respected for it. That doesn't mean that I deserve unwanted sexual advances, or comments that I consider to be rude and/or tasteless. And, it's not as if I'm on here, just posting the worst photos possible (or at least I'd like to consider that most of my stuff isn't garbage, but hey if it is in your opinion, it is) that all feature my vagina & ass.

I do put thought into my photos. A lot, quite frankly. But in the moment, a lot of stuff is spontaneous. I'm sorry if that isn't professional enough for some DA'ers on here. But it's who I am, and I'm going to keep posting, and I'm going to keep requesting for people to be respectful towards me.

Thanks.

Oy!

Journal Entry: Wed Mar 14, 2007, 6:10 PM
Hey everyone! I'm really happy that my page has been getting so many hits lately, but I wanted to clarify something:

I'm moreso looking for constructive criticism about my photography/modeling rather than someone just telling me that I have a "nice ass". I'm aware that I have a great butt, and it's awesome that other people think so, but why I decided to start posting my stuff here in the first place is so I could get feedback on how to improve my work rather than get my ego stroked.

Don't think that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth or anything by saying this, but I want to post my stuff here to get feedback, and not just to have guys tell me how fuckable I am.

If that limits comments on my pictures, so be it - but if you could at least tone down the sexual stuff, that'd be great.

Thanks!

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