Sorry if I have offended you. Some tihngs to keep in mind though. Firstly, if you put something “out there” you have to be prepared to take the feedback, good and bad. Your reply was very defensive but I have been in the same position myself. My comment about it not necessarily being your own work is based on my (perhaps incorrect) assumption that you weren’t the photographer on the Kelis shoot or the people behind her original marketing campaign. On the subject of personal taste – you are completely correct – yes this is my personal, unfortunately personal taste is the currency in this business. The look you put together here is somewhat polarizing which isn’t what you want. People who have been in this game for a good while have seen the “sex sells” mantra beaten to death for 20 years. It’s not that we are prudes, just it’s so entirely unoriginal and potentially impacts your message negatively with a good part of your market. This “look” acted as a barrier, rather than a driver for me to check out your work. Remember, you are competing with thousands of other people touting their stuff , so much so, that you need something pretty special to stand out – this IMO does not. As for your resume, I got to “Noiseporn” and began to understand… I genuinely admire you for putting effort into packaging this, it just didn’t work for me and seeing as you are posting it this on a DJ forum, I figured you were looking for honest opinion. I am not sure it would be helpful for anyone to LIKE this all day long just to make you feel good.
Do what you do and believe in yourself, just take it on the chin when someone provides you feedback. I apologize again for the way in which I said what I did. Good luck!
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