Slate Me To My Face" — The Truth About Callout Culture in Photography

Anyway, let me be dead clear about something before you all mention me saying I think photographers should never criticize each other.

I'm not saying that.

If anything, I think this entry's gone a little soft in itself.

Everyone's out here calling every half-arsed, over-edited, poorly lit shoot is stunning.

Honestly, go on some of the forums.

You know, like these, like, model, oh my god, yeah.

I feel like no one's got, like, the gumption to say, hey, that's a badly lit photo.

Why don't you try this? We're all like, oh my god, amazing, stunning.

In fact, my friend went and had a photo shoot done for this photographer.

And I know I'm going to be really dick when I say this.

I was really shocked at the quality of those photos.

She paid good money.

I just think they were dreadful.

And I said, did you like them? And she said, right.

And then she said, why don't you like them? I said, you never asked.

And she said, go on, tell me.

And I, you know, you can't critique a friend's work, can you? And she said, I said, well, why don't you think, why do you think they're all right if you pay them? And she goes, I don't like the way my face looks.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

And I didn't want to like rip this person's work.

Turned out the talk ran a bad day and just wasn't focused.

And it all went a bit wrong there.

But yeah, like I didn't want to, I'm not criticizing the work.

I was just critiquing it as such.

You could see that the light was off.