Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Chris,
What a distinct pleasure to see a post like yours! You sound like a photographer I would be delighted to meet one day. After reading your post, I do remember something that happened to me in college that smacked of just the behavior you are talking about. Years later I recognize what was happening, but back then I was so immature and clueless that I believed the photographer and the lines he told me. The photographer was a Professor at the University of Maryland, the school I attended and later graduated from. He invited me to his house, even introducing me to his wife, and told me that photographing me in various stages of undress was perfectly fine with his wife. He had a studio in his house and I willingly posed for him. Nothing happened beyond the posing for a few pictures (thank goodness!), but, when I think back, I realize he was one of those "lecherous assholes" to which you refer.
I have not been deterred from posting here and I think that RFF has a lot to offer. But if I run into any of the "Lecherous assholes" you refer to, then it'll go a long way towards making me hesitant to come back here.
Ellen
I don't know that any of the guys here are using photography to get young women into bed. What I see here is everytime someone posts a photo of a pretty girl, half the guys here are drooling all over themselves and asking if there are some nudes they can see (if the girl is clothed) and talking about how they wish they could meet her.
I'm strange anyway. I'm so socially awkward that I can't even imagine asking some girl to take her clothes off for me to photograph her even if I had the tiniest desire to do so (and I don't; nudes don't interest me artistically).
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