The Great Outdoors with Honey

[SimonD]

I can assure you I don't tamper with my pics, I dislike airbrushed and over photoshopped pics, honest images straight off the camera is what I am about )

Apart from that, I take around 900+ photos per shoot and I'll be buggered if I am going to airbrush all those!! lol

What bits did you think had been tampered with?

[zippo]

Simon

Apologies. I obviously didn't make myself clear.

I didn't mean to imply that anything had been done to the photographs.
I've seen very many of you pics and like them a lot...you also have a talent finding the right sort of girl too, though i know you put a lot of effort in.

I was replying to a previous message which asked why you hadn't removed the pimple from Honey's brow. I was trying (unsuccessfully) to make the point that girls have pimples, moles, different shaped noses, etc. and that images should not, in my humble opinion, be changed but left "untreated" as YOURS are!

regards

Rob

[andy ide]

Simon, I haven't been on this site for a while and seeing the pics above and the ones you've done recently of Mercedes has reminded me of how much I respect your work. It's just so nice in this day and age of ever-increasing mysoginy towards women in pornography -- not too mention banality and stupidity -- that you really bring out the character of the people you shoot. Nothing is more beautiful and you do it so, so well.

Is there any chance you can let me know your email please? I'm afraid that I'm a rather thick and totally technophobic dinosaur and clicking on the contact link on your website just throws up the Mail set-up thing on my Mac blah blah blah. You can get through to me on:

andyide@hotmail.com

Long may you reign, mate.

Andy Ide

[SimonD]

Nope you've lost me? can't quite see what point your making? are we on 2 different topics?

[andy ide]

If you're talking to me, no idea. Haven't bothered to read the rest of the thread. Gave up on this place months ago.

[SimonD]

No worries and thanks for the compliments zippo, glad you notice )

I'm in full agreement, models often have some 'flaw' they want photoshopped out, be it zits, pimples, bruises, a tatoo they no longer like, the list goes on, I leave them as is, that's life and I'm all about honest 'as is' photography )

[SimonD]

lol no sorry andy - was meant for phototaker

[SimonD]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Andy, from day one I have always tried to capture the models real character and show them having fun, to me there is nothing sexier than a girls real smile and getting sexy with it.

Email sent....

Cheers
Simon